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rot
  1. n. decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor [syn: putrefaction]

  2. (biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action [syn: decomposition, rotting, putrefaction]

  3. unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) [syn: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, hogwash]

  4. [also: rotting, rotted]

rot
  1. v. break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat" [syn: decompose, molder, moulder]

  2. waste away; "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world" [syn: waste]

  3. [also: rotting, rotted]

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ROT

The initialism ROT may refer to:

  • Rate of Turn, the speed at which a ship, vessel, or unit is turning at, or is capable of turning at, measured in degrees per second, used in aviation, naval, and space environments
  • Recording of Transmission, a term used in broadcasting
  • The Refugee Olympic Team at the 2016 Summer Olympics
  • Republic of Taiwan (disambiguation)
  • Republic of Texas
  • Retroactive overtime, overtime which is paid in addition to bonuses and commissions
  • ROT (aviation), or rate one turn, a required turning rate for aircraft
  • ROT (MUD), in online gaming, a multi-user dungeon codebase
  • Rotorua Airport, New Zealand
  • Rule Of Thumb
  • Remotely Operated Tool, used in the offshore industry
  • ROT13, an early form of encryption.
Rot (album)

Rot ( German for Red) is the fifth studio album (sixth overall) by German rapper Sabrina Setlur, released by 3p Records on August 24, 2007 (see 2007 in music). It was entirely co-produced by Martin Haas and Moses Pelham, with additional contribution by Bayz Benzon. The album was critically acclaimed, but has widely failed to receive any commercial success yet, becoming Setlur's lowest-charting studio album to date.

Rot (Danube)

The Rot is a southern tributary of the river Danube in the region of Upper Swabia in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It has a length of 54 km.

The Rot runs in a northerly direction parallel to the river Iller to the east, and Westernach to the west. Both these rivers are also tributaries to the Danube.

Rot (SITD)

Rot is the fourth album by German, electro-industrial/ aggrotech band, [:SITD:]. It was released in 2009 on the Accession Records label in Germany and on the Metropolis Records label in the United States. Accession Records also released a deluxe edition containing a bonus disc.

Rot (Kocher)

''' Rot (Kocher) ''' is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Rot (Wurzacher Ach)

''' Rot (Wurzacher Ach) ''' is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Usage examples of "rot".

A sound like poor dead Acton might make, watching his own remains rotting out there on the rift?

A squalid alameda where there stood a rotting brushwood gazebo and a few old iron benches.

The emotion still appalled and nauseated her, like something rotting in her stomach.

Their Thor and Odin were at first, probably, only the thunder and the wind: but they had to be appeased in the dark marches of the forest, where hung rotting on the sacred oaks, amid carcases of goat and horse, the carcases of human victims.

The buildings were constructed for the most part of squared-off logs, since stone was rare here on the vast, soggy delta of the Arjun River, and the logs appeared to have been attacked by damp rot almost before they were in place.

But today was market day down in Aspic Hole, and the pungent slick of dung-smell and rot that rolled over New Crobuzon was, in these streets, for these hours, improved with paprika and fresh tomato, hot oil and fish and cinnamon, cured meat, banana and onion.

Mit dem letzten Rest seiner Kraft versuchte er, von diesen kalten roten Augen wegzusehen.

Schnabel blitzte in dem roten Licht, die Augen darin waren keine Menschenaugen.

In the years following the First Opium War disasters multiplied, taxes were increased upon the peasantry, corruption in the governing mandarinate became systematic, respect for authority declined, power decentralized, banditry flourished, sovereignty rotted at the center.

As the refuse rotted underground, it gave off biogas, chiefly methane.

His bubo had begun to drain again, a thick, dark liquid that smelled like rotting meat.

We have seen the application of the oil of vitriol to Calamine yields white vitriol and know how this agent toils against the powers of destruction and rot.

In the blaze of his magnificence, men would forget that a handful of desperate Caphars behind rotting walls had closed his road to empire.

Perhaps a charnel house of human bodies, dismembered and gory, raw with frightful cicatrices, oozing filth from sick and rotting sores.

He was an old man whose body was collapsing under the oppressive weight of a rotting, wasting disease, whose mind was stiff with coagulated dream-emissions.