rotとは

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): [ɹɑt]
• 韻: -ɒt

動詞

rot (三人称単数 現在形 rots, 現在分詞 rotting, 過去形および過去分詞形 rotted)

1. (intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Alexander Pope

     Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, / To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

2. (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
3. (intransitive) To deteriorate in any way.

   I hope they all rot in prison for what they've done.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Macaulay

     Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Thackeray

     Rot, poor bachelor, in your club.

4. (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.

   to rot vegetable fiber

5. (transitive, figuratively) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).

   to rot in jail

   to rot in prison

   to rot in Hell

6. (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.

同意語

• putrefy

派生語

• brown rot
• potter's rot

名詞

rot (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 rots)

1. The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
2. Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     His cattle must of rot and murrain die.

3. Verbal nonsense.

同意語

• (nonsense): See also Thesaurus:nonsense

アナグラム

• ORT, OTR, RTO, TOR, TRO, Tor, ort, tor