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, General 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.

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

   • (Can we date this quote?)

     Four of the sufferers were left to rot in irons.

   • (Can we date this quote?)

     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, The Liar, p. 37:

     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

• 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. Verbal nonsense.

同意語

• (nonsense): See also Thesaurus:nonsense

アナグラム

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