rotとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɹɒt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɑt/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɹɔt/
• 韻: -ɒt
• Homophone: wrought (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

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.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019:

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

   The apple left in the cupboard all that time had started to rot.

2. (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.

   Your brain will rot if you spend so much time on the computer, Tony!

3. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
4. (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.

   to rot vegetable fiber

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

   to rot in prison

   to rot in Hell

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Book of Snobs

     Rot, poor bachelor, in your club.

6. (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
7. (dated, slang) To talk nonsense.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, chapter III, in The Liar, London: William Heinemann, →ISBN, page 26:

     Adrian thought it worth while to try out his new slang. ‘I say, you fellows, here's a rum go. Old Biffo was jolly odd this morning. He gave me a lot of pi-jaw about slacking and then invited me to tea. No rotting! He did really.’

同意語

• putrefy

派生語

• brain rot
• brown rot
• potter's rot

名詞

rot (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 rots)

1. The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
2. Decaying matter.
   • 2016, Nathanael Johnson, Unseen City, →ISBN, page 115:

     When a turkey vulture detects the scent of rot, it circles down, tracing the plume of chemicals to its source.

3. Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
   • 1658–1663, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     His cattle must of rot and murrain die.

4. (uncountable) Verbal nonsense.

同意語

• (nonsense): See also Thesaurus:nonsense

アナグラム

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