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Rust

noun

1.

A red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture.

2.

A plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi.

3.

The formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water. Synonym: rusting.

4.

Any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants. Synonym: rust fungus.

verb

(past & past part. rusted; pres. part. rusting)

1.

Become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid. Synonym: corrode. "The pipes rusted"

2.

Cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid. Synonyms: corrode, eat. "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"

3.

Become coated with oxide.

adjective

1.

Of the brown color of rust. Synonyms: rust-brown, rusty.

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"Rust" Quotes from Famous Books

... did not like this view of the matter, and disputed energetically with the master. At last he asked him to explain how it was that all this gold and silver was the property of one man and was left to rust, and why the master of the treasure incessantly laboured to increase it when he had already such an amazing superfluity of riches. The master answered, "I am not a man, although I have the form and appearance ...

— The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country • William Forsell Kirby

... shining on the iron would make it so hot it would burn any flower you tried to plant in the opening; the water couldn't reach the roots, and all that fell on the slab would run off and make it that much wetter at the edges. The iron would soon rust and grow dreadfully ugly lying under winter snow. There is nothing at all in it, save a method to work on the feelings of the living, and get them to pay their money for something that wouldn't ...

— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter

... great. I can't find anything wrong, except a little rust. I'll take a look at that transmitting jigger and send ...

— The Pirate Shark • Elliott Whitney

... Francis II., for the simple reason that it was introduced at the wrong moment. Doubtless some of these relics of Eastern warfare possessed as pointed and applicable dicta as that of Capua, and had I had sufficient time I should have scraped off the mould and rust of accumulated ages, and have copied some of the inscriptions. That they could be fired was placed beyond a doubt by the promiscuous medley of explosions which greeted us, and which I purposely abstain from calling a salute, so unlike was it to everything ...

— Herzegovina - Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels • George Arbuthnot

... without changing his travelling clothes, rang for a cab and was driven rapidly up the Avenue. He was a man of science, not of enthusiasms, cold, unerring, brilliant; a superb intellectual machine, which never showed a fleck of rust, unremittingly polished, and enlarged with every improvement. But for one man he cherished an abiding sympathy; to that man he hastened on the slightest summons, as he hastened now. They had been intimate in boyhood; then in later years through mutual ...

— The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories • Gertrude Atherton

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