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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
debris
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
industrial
▪ Roses between thorns: the lock cottage at Witton surrounded by industrial premises and debris.
▪ Jobs, both temporary and permanent, have been created from industrial debris.
other
▪ And arrowheads and other debris excavated from the ruins indicate that Qumran, too, opposed the Romans by force of arms.
▪ However it was to no avail: the Orcs swarmed across the river floating on broken timber beams and other debris.
▪ All of these types of gravel must be washed very thoroughly as they often contain lots of dust or other debris.
▪ Flaps were to be left in the down position to facilitate the removal of mud and other debris prior to their retraction.
▪ Clear leaves and other debris from the sward.
■ NOUN
garden
▪ Get the Tidi Noir, a light, plastic bag, for garden debris.
plant
▪ Slugs and snails Soft-bodied, voracious molluscs that often shelter by day beneath leaves and plant debris, and feed at night.
▪ And always remove old plant debris.
■ VERB
clear
▪ She continued to talk, even after they'd cleared away the debris of their lunch and resumed work.
▪ Employees already had cleared the bridges of debris, and only one bridge crossing was under water Monday.
▪ In the hall a few sleepy serfs cleared away the debris left from the evening meal.
▪ In Dianetics, a workmanlike job of clearing away the debris in and around the machine is performed.
▪ You have to clear away the debris.
▪ Stretcher-bearers were trying to clear the debris to get to the wounded men.
▪ Other species seem to clear away this debris more easily.
find
▪ In the living room I found the usual debris.
▪ Earlier in the day, they found more gruesome debris.
fly
▪ Also, the order in which the individual loads of dynamite were detonated determined the principal direction for the flying debris.
remove
▪ It has reverse action which is basically used for removing debris and jammed drill bits.
▪ And always remove old plant debris.
▪ Use a vacuum cleaner to remove debris from between the key caps and clean them with a suitable solution.
▪ At the same time remove any excess debris that has accumulated on the pond bottom.
▪ Many helped firemen remove debris and others were ferrying the injured to hospitals.
▪ Ventilation ducts are cleaned to remove dust and debris, birds and insects.
▪ And remove debris in the pond base - both are jobs to do when the weather is warm.
▪ It is a surgical steel scraper that removes oral debris in a couple of strokes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The beach was littered with debris.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And arrowheads and other debris excavated from the ruins indicate that Qumran, too, opposed the Romans by force of arms.
▪ Flaps were to be left in the down position to facilitate the removal of mud and other debris prior to their retraction.
▪ Fragments of building debris can form a large part of the total number of finds from a site.
▪ Like a widening conveyer belt it scraped away more and more of the hillsides and carried off the debris.
▪ Men on board pulled the wounded and the mangled bodies of the dead from beneath collapsed debris.
▪ Wheels spun free and shredded carbon-fibre debris from disintegrating front wings flew in all directions.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
debris

1708, from French débris "remains, waste, rubbish" (16c.), from obsolete debriser "break down, crush," from Old French de- (see de-) + briser "to break," from Late Latin brisare, possibly of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish brissim "I break").

Wiktionary
debris

n. rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.

WordNet
debris

n. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up [syn: dust, junk, rubble, detritus]

Wikipedia
Debris

Debris or débris (UK: or ; US: ) is rubble, wreckage, ruins, litter and discarded garbage/refuse/trash, scattered remains of something destroyed, discarded, or as in geology, large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc. Depending on context, debris can refer to a number of different things. The first apparent use of the French word in English is in a 1701 description of the army of Prince Rupert upon its retreat from a battle with the army of Oliver Cromwell, in England.

Debris (album)

Debris is the debut album by electro-industrial project Ayria. It was released in 2003, along with a deluxe edition featuring a bonus disc and alternate packaging.

Debris (Sandwich album)

Debris is the eighth studio album by Filipino alternative rock band Sandwich, released on February 12, 2015 through PolyEast Records. It was launched on February 25, 2015 at the UP Town Center in Quezon City, Philippines.

Debris (play)

Debris is an in-yer-face play by Dennis Kelly. It was first produced at the Latchmere Theatre (now Theatre 503) in London in 2003, before being transferred to Battersea Arts Centre the next year.

A one-act play where a brother and sister try to make sense of their dysfunctional childhood. The pair lie about their past creating new elaborate past stories, the central narrative is of the brother, Michael, who finds a baby who he names Debris trying to keep him a secret and alive from his alcoholic father confiding only in Michelle his sister who is fascinated with their mother's death and gives several contradicting stories of how she died.

In the first scene the brother describes coming home to see his father who has committed suicide by crucifixion. Kelly has said "I was brought up a Catholic, so, like every decent Catholic, as a child I fantasised about being crucified - it must have come from there"

Kelly original had problems getting Debris produced until approaching Theatre 503 "The play had been rejected by pretty much every other theatre around but 503 saw something in the play and decided to abandon common sense and produce it. For me it was one of the most important moments in my life"

Debris was developed whilst Kelly was on attachment at the National Theatre Studio.

Debris (disambiguation)

Debris is rubble, wreckage, ruins, litter and discarded garbage/refuse/trash, scattered remains of something destroyed, etc.

Debris may also refer to:

  • Road debris
  • Glacial debris
    • Ice rafted debris
  • Marine debris
  • Space debris
  • Woody debris (disambiguation)
  • Demolition waste
  • Foreign object debris
  • Behind-armor debris
  • Roger De Bris, fictional character who first appeared in Mel Brooks' 1968 movie, The Producers, played by Christopher Hewett
  • Debris (play), a 2001 play by Dennis Kelley

Usage examples of "debris".

Lakunai Airdrome and he had destroyed sixteen airplanes and killed more than eighty men as the American machine exploded in a long gout of flame and debris.

And as she descended she was battered by debris, helpless ammonites, clams, squid, even rocks torn from the floor.

When you do that, you remover debris, stimulate small glands to secrete oil for a tear film that covers the eyes like Saran Wrap, and simulate your own tears, which are antibacterial and hydrate the cornea.

A half a dozen antipersonnel grenades sailed through the hole in the bricks and blew dust and debris and various body parts all over the place.

The stable area to the right, reduced to a mass of charred timbers and jutting debris, reeked of wet ashes and the stench of rotting animal flesh.

Both were peering toward the gate in the fence as it opened to admit a party of guards surrounding three new arrivals, their blue coveralls ashine with recent laundering, their fronts covered with bits of technological debris, every scrap polished to a metallic gleam.

X himself devoted his valuable time to rooting through the debris of the New Atlantan immune system proved this.

Piles of building debris, the empty shells of gutted autos, and every kind of junk and garbage lined the street.

Other workers shoveled the debris left by the process into biofilter bins, where the inert black rock disappeared, to leave only dilithium chips.

The wound was no great matter, but there were bits of dirt and debris in the wound, and the edges were red and gaping, raw surfaces clouded with a film of pus.

The blowback and recoil nearly broke her wrist and she dropped the weapon through the cloud of debris and gunpowder residue.

Then the entire house blows outward and upward, shingles flying, hunks of wood lofted into the air and then returning to earth, something that looks like a quilt twisting lazily in the air like a magic carpet as debris rattle to the ground in a thudding, contrapuntal drum roll.

The bullet and the debris that it forced into his bodywood splinters, fiber stuffingthey made a mess of one of the most closely knit areas of the human anatomy.

Peter Wheeler, too old to maintain his property, the hunt club, once a year, cleaned the raceway of branches or any other floating debris, bushhogged the trails, and repaired jumps.

Then the Bushmaster went off like a bomb, its fuel tank detonating as an orange-red fireball, twisted metal debris spewing outward.