(v. i.) To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.
(v. i.) Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
(v. t.) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
(v. t.) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
(n.) Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
(n.) A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
(n.) A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three strains of fluorescent pseudomonads (IS-1, IS-2, and IS-3) isolated from potato underground stems with roots showed in vitro antibiosis against 30 strains of the ring rot bacterium Clavibacter michiganensis subsp.
(2) Severe fruit rot of guava due to Phytophthora nicotianae var.
(3) The evidence suggests that this isozyme is not necessary for soft-rot pathogenesis.
(4) The eurozone's 17 finance ministers began crisis talks in Brussels on Monday night "to stop the rot" with Italian bond yields – the country's cost of borrowing – hitting a new peak of 6.69%, threatening to crash the euro system, and political leaders from virtually all countries outside Germany lining up to demand full-scale ECB intervention.
(5) Bundesliga in 1997 when his team Rot-Weiss Essen was relegated," writes Matthias Gläfke.
(6) The antibiotic is effective in control of cucumber root rot under hydroponic cultivation conditions.
(7) Partly ROT arises from aversion of healthy people to very severe decay.
(8) I would like it to always look as fresh as the day I made it, so part of the contract is: if the glass breaks, we mend it; if the tank gets dirty, we clean it; if the shark rots, we find you a new shark."
(9) Yvonne Roberts: Mea culpa is journalism's dry rot You are right, Lucy, the best confessional writing has a universal truth.
(10) cereanus are also frequently recovered from the rotting tissue being utilized by the Drosophila species, the interactions described here are viewed as a possible adaptation in which the yeast provides benefits to one of its vectors by metabolism of 2-propanol in the habitat.
(11) In preparations stained by congo-rot and covered with arabic gumm amyloid deposits reveal intensive, positive bi refringement, collagen is isotrop, or shows a mild bi refringement.
(12) Extensive metabolism of AT to CO2 by the white rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium (approximately 60% in 30 days) was also demonstrated.
(13) Liverpool still do not look convincing top-four candidates but at least the rot has been stopped.
(14) In 22 mildly deteriorated elderly patients the total score on a reality orientation questionnaire improved after 3 months ROT.
(15) Differences between the pathogen and nonpathogen suggest that regulation of pectate lyase synthesis is related to pathogenicity of soft-rot bacteria.
(16) Fetal hypothalamic-pituitary ROT does not seem to play any part in parturition.
(17) But nothing in the photographs of Gaddafi wounded, dead, dragged through the streets, and finally on display, rotting in public, has been anything like as disgusting as the thoroughly hypocritical and self-deceiving international reaction to these pictures.
(18) When we came the first time we found her trying to cook two slices of rotting apple in a saucepan,” said Valentina.
(19) The difference in washout-efficacy between Pap and Rot on the inhibition of 40-K induced tension was ascribed to a difference in their mitochondrial binding properties.
(20) Two hundred sheep were included in the study, 100 with detectable foot rot lesions and 100 without.
Wot
Definition:
(imp.) of Weet
(pres. sing.) of Wit
() 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. See the Note under Wit, v.
Example Sentences:
(1) Labour's wooing of the tabloids for the past decade and a half was born out of a misguided belief that it really was the Sun "wot won it" for John Major in 1992.
(2) In 2004, Wiley made this explicit in his single Wot U Call It , mocking the record shops, punters and media confused as to where to place him among house, garage, "urban" and grime.
(3) Only a month later, The Sun carried its light bulb lampoon of Kinnock and, when Labour lost the election, crowed: "It was The Sun wot won it."
(4) As the former News Corp executive put it: “As newspaper endorsements become less and less important, this is one way for him to maintain a high political profile.” That trend remains visible in the UK, where Murdoch pushed the power of newspaper endorsements to the limit with the Sun’s famous 1992 front page on the day after the Conservative party’s general election victory: “It’s the Sun Wot Won It” .
(5) But if there is a lasting impression that "It was the Sun wot spun it" then the party may have helped inoculate itself against future attacks.
(6) In the group of 232 inhabitants of the protective zone of Nowa Huta the Steel-Mill (181 women and 51 men) incidence of overweight and obesity was estimated using the Quetelet and Wot indices.
(7) If the group of obese persons was formed on the basis of Wot anthropometric index (which included skinfolds thickness, present body mass and height), significantly lower values of VC and FEV1 were found in comparison to non-obese counterparts.
(8) With the wisdom of hindsight, it is plain to see that despite our support among younger voters, it was the older voters wot won it.
(9) In the end it was not the Sun wot won it but Clegg wot clinched it for Cameron.
(10) id agree that its my 1st film 2 star a pigeon in a prominint role if thats wot u mean lol What was the pigeon supposed to represent?
(11) wots up with that lol You're known for keeping any details about your forthcoming cinematic projects tightly under wraps.
(12) But former deputy prime minister John Prescott said via Twitter: "It will be the Son, Daughter, Uncle, Mother and Friend Wot Win it in 2010.
(13) sportingintelligence (@sportingintel) #mufc sources say successor announcement "soon", and "he'll be cut from same cloth as Ferguson and Busby, and believe in youth development" May 8, 2013 10.36am BST Here's a video wot we made earlier.
(14) The equation of multiple regression used for this purpose takes into account the dependence of spirometric values on age and Wot index.
(15) The pair met in John Major's HQ campaign team in 1992, bright young men with an eye to the main chance, who shared some of the credit when Major came from behind to beat Labour and seed the fateful myth that "It was the Sun Wot Won It".
(16) Had the anti-Common Market side won, it would have been the left wot won it .
(17) Its famous 1992 headline: "It's the Sun wot won it", boasted that the surprise Conservative general election victory was down to its campaign against then Labour leader Neil Kinnock.
(18) This division was based on two indices: W--including height, present body mass and age, Wot--including height, present body mass and skin-folds thickness.
(19) It's quite a bold move, but it will be able to say it was the Standard wot won it."
(20) question, but after Danny Braverman's simple, delicious storytelling show Wot?