What's the difference between dusty and rusty?

Dusty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.
  • (superl.) Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
  • (2) In between the two sets, we slip to the Silverlake Lounge ( foldsilverlake.com ), where Silversun Pickups used to play, to listen to Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, a six-piece that meshes folk rock with the Beach Boys with Yes.
  • (3) As a result of the findings, a further study was undertaken by the same research team to investigate one possible solution to the problem of alcohol consumption at work in a paper-producing factory, predominantly under hot and dusty conditions.
  • (4) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
  • (5) Two cases of PAME in children occurring during dusty harmattan period in Northern Nigeria are reported.
  • (6) In the vast dusty fields and ramshackle towns of Shinyanga the problem is that sex education is minimal.
  • (7) The patient, a bulldozer-operator, worked in Africa for a long period in extremely dusty conditions without any protection.
  • (8) "Fisherwomen, who before in a week would get 20 to 30 kilos of shellfish, now take a whole week to get 2 or 3 kilos," says De Alcántara, sitting on a folding metal chair in a dusty meeting hall.
  • (9) The dusty and impoverished town has few signs of diamond wealth, and the word is that its senior baron recently fled to Maputo to evade Zimbabwe's secret police.
  • (10) Six years later, as the cultural revolution wreaked havoc, young Xi was dispatched to the dusty, impoverished north-western province of Shaanxi to "learn from the masses".
  • (11) The results indicated that the manner in which a powder is handled may be as important as material dustiness as measured by a dustiness tester.
  • (12) dusty atmosphere also influence the tolerance; local state of the tissues.
  • (13) Politicians who claimed to sense the hand of history on their shoulders got a dusty response from Simon, especially if they did so in verbless sentences.
  • (14) These results show that antismoking campaigns are important among workers in a dusty work environment.
  • (15) Thorn says: ‘ I’ve always thought if Dusty’s voice was a colour, it was silver.’ Photograph: Ian Berry Ugh, all the same old words, and they won’t do, will they?
  • (16) Whether you’re into Dusty’s Deep Cut reggae, minimal electronics, symphonic pop, Texas blues, Japanese noise, power electronics, children’s music, christmas music, Raymond Scott, or Burl Ives, I guarantee there is an online community where you can connect with other enthusiasts to indulge the minute specificity of your tastes.
  • (17) As a result of Wesker’s affairs, Dusty and Wesker were estranged and Wesker went to live in Wales.
  • (18) Two kinds of herbivorous rabbit-fish – the dusty spine-foot and its cousin the marbled spine-foot – have destroyed vast swaths of underwater seaweed forests in the eastern Mediterranean, after migrating through the Suez in recent decades.
  • (19) A few yards in the dusty distance are some small houses; in better days, these served as nurses' quarters.
  • (20) 766 dockers exposed to dusty materials were examined.

Rusty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.
  • (superl.) Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect.
  • (superl.) Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.
  • (superl.) Surly; morose; crusty; sullen.
  • (superl.) Rust-colored; dark.
  • (superl.) Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.
  • (superl.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its diplomatic machinery is a little bit rusty," said Zhu Feng, of Peking University's centre for international and strategic studies.
  • (2) Soon my pillowcases bore rusty coins of nasal drippage.
  • (3) Protected by a rusty padlocked gate, Macrinus's tomb was targeted by thieves after it was first excavated in 2008.
  • (4) A gentle drizzle beats an insistent rhythm on the rusty, corrugated iron classroom roof at Katwe primary school in a suburb of Kampala, Uganda’s capital.
  • (5) But to enjoy it like a local, give the tourist-tat main road a miss and dive into the snarl of side streets, where wheeler-dealers hawk everything from rusty doorknobs to 17th-century art.
  • (6) With the breakdown of trapped hemoglobin, iron-containing hemosiderin is stored in synovial tissue producing rusty discoloration and proliferative reaction.
  • (7) 3.26am BST 62 mins The hour coming up is not lost on our Twitter followers Rusty (@bussruckley) But seriously, can Jurgen make a sub before its too late?
  • (8) The man with the rusty teeth struggles over the word on the whiteboard, one of a handful the teacher has written for the class.
  • (9) Rusty (@bussruckley) @KidWeil these vuvuzelas are death.
  • (10) Regardless, the England manager is keen to include Wilshere in the squad in the belief he boasts the required pedigree to succeed, however rusty he is after his lay-off.
  • (11) Diagnosis of the first case was made from fragments of an endometrial polyp obtained after curettage done because of a rusty vaginal discharge and lower abdominal pain.
  • (12) As the interval arrived the home rear-defence had indeed been more composed, though Kompany’s rustiness caused two errors.
  • (13) He said allegations by a senior government official that the tools were rusty were untrue and that he wore gloves and a gown.
  • (14) When a lost boy meets a rusty child who teaches him to chomp iron bars, or a disgruntled crowd is distracted by beancurd fritters, Mo insists that everything lags behind the belly.
  • (15) Didier Drogba was making the first start of his second coming in these parts, but was understandably rusty and, long before the end, rather wheezing.
  • (16) A faint dog-collar effect is lent by that all-white chin, the rest of his rusty beard creeping over his cheeks like a delightful kind of lichen.
  • (17) The moors, covered with bracken turning a rusty brown, stretched as far as the eye could see.
  • (18) This will be a classic "are they rusty or rested" game, as Miami return from vacation to face a Nets team that just finished a grueling seven-game series against the Toronto Raptors on Sunday, winning 104-103 only after Pierce blocked Kyle Lowry's attempted game-winner.
  • (19) Since Warp's minimal beginnings, they've built a legacy that has taken in a florally abundant range of styles, from the haunted psychedelia of Broadcast to Bibio, Boards Of Canada, Black Dog Productions and Rustie .
  • (20) Mesut Özil, Santi Cazorla and Alexis Sánchez, restored after his exertions at the Copa América, all revelled where they had been so rusty at the Emirates Stadium the previous week as Arsenal whipped up the kind of upbeat tempo they had enjoyed in the spring, when, albeit in a game of catch-up, they had been the Premier League’s resurgent force.