What's the difference between pubble and rubble?

Pubble


Definition:

  • (a.) Puffed out, pursy; pudgy; fat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The solubility properties of paramyosin in the zones of pH and ionic strength in which aggregation occurs were initially studied using preparations isolated by a method originally described by Bailey (Bailey, K. (1956), Pubbl.

Rubble


Definition:

  • (n.) Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
  • (n.) Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash.
  • (n.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.
  • (n.) The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Who shot you in the back as you drove on your motorbike to dig your children out of the rubble?
  • (2) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
  • (3) The authorities had vacated the area, leaving barricades and piles of rubble in place.
  • (4) "Some people pulled me out from the rubble," said shopkeeper Sharifuddin Aurfan, who was wounded.
  • (5) Probably the starkest document yet to emerge from Labour’s election rubble, it underlines how hard it will be for Corbyn to send out a cohesive message when MPs, including those in his administration, are fundamentally opposed to his ideology .
  • (6) It takes time for Dhaka's ramshackle emergency services to arrive, so hundreds of locals clamber over and through the rubble, tearing at the concrete blocks and mangled metal with their hands.
  • (7) The turnstiles had been abandoned and you didn't even need a ticket, and there was rubble lying around everywhere.
  • (8) Supporters see him as saving South Korea from poverty and irrelevance by building up the economy from the rubble of the Korean war.
  • (9) Much of Libya and Yemen is reduced to rubble in a war where outside powers are the principal actors, prepared to fight until the last local is dead.
  • (10) When it knocked down our buildings, it didn't replace them with anything more offensive than rubble."
  • (11) A day earlier, the child's mother, Lauranie Jean, was pulled from the rubble of the house.
  • (12) People are literally sleeping amongst the rubble, children have died of hypothermia,” said the agency’s director in Gaza, Robert Turner.
  • (13) Restaurant Bar de la Marine (28 rue Achard) is a little oasis of comfort amid the rubble of the past and the concrete of the future.
  • (14) As they continued to trawl through water and rubble for the missing, on Monday police said they had reduced the number of people believed to have died in the Utøya massacre from 86 to 68 – the vast majority of them teenagers taking part in a leftwing political summer camp.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrian child pulled from rubble after Aleppo airstrike The fight for control of Aleppo has intensified in recent weeks following gains made by rebel groups battling the forces of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.
  • (16) Pictures showed a large group of people lying on polished tiled flooring, most of them near to a wall and surrounded by rubble and other debris.
  • (17) The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, said on Sunday: “While there are reports of extensive loss of life, at this point there are no reports of Australian deaths.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Emergency workers in Kathmandu continue to pull survivors from the rubble a day after the earthquake Twitter and Facebook pages are showing images of Australians in Nepal and many families have reported dozens of loved ones missing on the Red Cross’s Family Links website.
  • (18) Elsewhere in the shattered capital, an Israeli rescue team freed a 22-year-old man from the rubble.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rescuers search for five children trapped under rubble.
  • (20) "There are people still alive underneath [rubble], you can hear them crying for help, but time is running out.

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