What's the difference between mouldy and rotten?

Mouldy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.
  • () See Mold, Molder, Moldy, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lung diseases in farmers attributable to their occupation include (a) farmer's lung, caused by exposure to mouldy hay, (b) the asthma caused by exposure to grain dust and (c) silo-filler's disease.
  • (2) Before a diagnosis of farmers' lung due to mouldy hay is made in any patient whether or not precipitins to Micropolyspora faeni are present, skin tests for storage mite should be made.
  • (3) He has left the gas on in the past and accumulates mouldy fruit.
  • (4) The biggest challenge in today’s society is to smile tightly and explain yet again to your mum that yes, your friend from school married a banker and bought a three-bedroom house in Surrey, but no, you can’t afford to move out of your mouldy flatshare just yet.
  • (5) The difference in the mean titre was not due to the differences between the study groups in age, sex, smoking habits, atopic background, frequency of handling of plant materials, or time interval from the most recent handling of visibly mouldy hay.
  • (6) There was no quantitative association between the proportion of bright green-yellow fluorescent, purple or mouldy kernels and the mycotoxin contents of the composite samples.
  • (7) With the aid of the electron microscope, a number of histopathological changes in the liver of mice caused by mycotoxins from mouldy hay were examined and studied.
  • (8) Thus, zygomycetes are the main cause of macroscopically apparent mycotic lymphadenitis, a sporadic disease most probably caused by feeding with mouldy food stuffs.
  • (9) Two patients with allergic alveolitis due to mouldy hay antigens (farmer's lung) were shown to have malabsorption due to coeliac disease.
  • (10) They lived in crowded, mouldy tents, where guards conducted regular, prison-like searches, and limited their showers to two minutes, before forcing them out.
  • (11) Histopathology of lungs from animals exposed to mouldy hay demonstrated the presence of alveolar cell infiltrates and early granulomas, that were similar to allergic alveolitis (AA).
  • (12) The material was usually described as extremely mouldy and the episodes were usually provoked by unusual work tasks such as cleaning grain bins or removing mouldy feed.
  • (13) He was magnificent as the mouldy old white-haired janitor, master of the mop and bucket, supervising an invisible gathering to hear the very last message for humanity.
  • (14) The hazards involved through the consumption of individuals to such mouldy bread, is accumulation of possible deleterious effects from both long and short term exposure to these toxic metabolites.
  • (15) A number of findings testify that the mass occurrence of mucormycosis followed the feeding of mouldy bakery wastes on the basis of acidosis.
  • (16) Evaluation of biological activity and toxicity of the extractives and the effects of prolonged ingestion of the mouldy seeds by animals suggest that the infected seeds may present high toxin-risk to humans.
  • (17) Eleven of the patients had farmer's lung and two had been exposed to other mouldy dust.
  • (18) The presence of precursor compounds for the formation of nitrosamine in the mouldy maize flour and their significance in respect to the etiology of esophageal cancer in high-risk areas have been discussed.
  • (19) The bread will go mouldy, and I'll come home at night and instead of making a meal for someone who doesn't want it and prefers instant noodles, I can have Ryvita and cheese, and eat apples.
  • (20) After 30 months in mouldy tents and now in the community where we are not accepted, some of us now have travel papers which give us the freedom to leave.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A letter signed by refugees on Nauru asking for the New Zealand government to consider them for resettlement.

Rotten


Definition:

  • (a.) Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rotten meat.
  • (a.) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.
  • (a.) Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
  • (2) Artists round the globe may plead free speech, but to treat the Pussy Riot gesture as a glorious stand for artistic liberty is like praising Johnny Rotten, who did similar things, as the Voltaire of our day.
  • (3) produced strong rotten, fishy, hydrogen sulphide off-odours.
  • (4) It would defer the moment of confronting the underlying problem, which is not a strong currency but a rotten state.
  • (5) Distinction was made between different types of odours (rotten, wood).
  • (6) It was "inconceivable" that one rotten apple was at the heart of it all.
  • (7) She is rotten through and through, as you feel Ayres might have put it herself.
  • (8) Some gifted and canny writers have made a mint by appealing to teenagers’ sense of anguish and victimhood, the notion that they are forever embattled and persecuted by a rotten world run by authoritarian bozos.
  • (9) Devine strongly denied a suggestion that parliament was "rotten to the core".
  • (10) The character George Bowling bites into a frankfurter he has bought in an milk bar decorated in chrome and mirrors: "The thing burst in my mouth like a rotten pear.
  • (11) The project reunites her with Jane Campion, director of An Angel At My Table, in which Fox hiked, rotten-toothed and bubble-haired, across the hills of New Zealand.
  • (12) The relative efficiency of the next generation of solar cells is trivial by comparison.” In other words, our problem has a lot less to do with the mechanics of solar power than the politics of human power – specifically whether there can be a shift in who wields it, a shift away from corporations and toward communities, which in turn depends on whether or not the great many people who are getting a rotten deal under our current system can build a determined and diverse enough social force to change the balance of power.
  • (13) Rotten" – is meant to satirise David Cameron, George Osborne and Boris Johnson's days at the Buller.
  • (14) Tellingly, all of these were occupied by the business of peeling back the veneer of Austro-Hungarian culture to expose the rottenness beneath, and this might have had something to do with the fact that, when they were in their teens, another Viennese, Sigmund Freud, was putting together the framework of the new technique of psychoanalysis.
  • (15) Finally, from 1978 here's the 0-0 draw in Mar del Plata on a rotten pitch with David Coleman.
  • (16) 40 min: Rotten shot from Henderson, a terrible waste when Downing had turned McNaughton thsi way then that before crossing.
  • (17) Isn't it worried as to how and why so many rotten apples creep into its barrel?
  • (18) The film, starring the Bridesmaids actor as a former business heavyweight struggling to rebuild her life after completing a jail sentence for insider trading, has a rating of just 17% on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and was labelled an “unfunny, chaotic mess of ludicrous plotting and tone-deaf set-pieces” by Jordan Hoffman in the Guardian.
  • (19) If Labour is complicit with the idea that Westminster is rotten, it promotes the idea that real change is not available from national politics.
  • (20) There isn't much in the way of revelation to be found in Samantha Geimer's new memoir, The Girl; every rotten detail of Roman Polanski's conviction in a US court for "unlawful sex with a minor", flight and subsequent exile in France has been in the public eye for years.