(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.
Ruble
Definition:
(n.) The unit of monetary value in Russia. It is divided into 100 copecks, and in the gold coin of the realm (as in the five and ten ruble pieces) is worth about 77 cents. The silver ruble is a coin worth about 60 cents.
Example Sentences:
(1) The ruble also hit its weakest level ever against the euro, at 50.03.
(2) Then, perhaps a couple of decades after the customs union is formed, its members consider creating a true monetary union with a common currency - the Eurasian ruble?
(3) Identification of a lesion in the lung, mediastinum or thoracic wall, whatever its nature, costed 18.8 rubles.
(4) 10.40am GMT Europe’s stock markets are a classic ‘sea of red’: Photograph: Thomson Reuters 10.35am GMT In Moscow, the ruble’s tumble to record lows against the US dollar and euro is clearly on display: A currency exchange office in downtown Moscow this morning.
(5) He may find himself with asset freezes, on Russian business, American business may pull back, there may be a further tumble of the ruble.” Claiming Moscow was already isolated in the face of united condemnation from western allies, Kerry told ABC’s This Week that Putin was inviting “very serious repercussions” such as visa bans and asset freezes for Russian leaders and even economic sanctions.
(6) It recently transpired that he will spend 15 million rubles (£155,000) on a new football pitch in Nizhny Tagil, where he plans to open a football school.
(7) In 1981-1987, 595 outpatient cases of cancer of various sites underwent radiotherapy at the Regional Oncological Dispensary, Chelyabinsk, which saved 317181.25 rubles.
(8) A 2012 report by the government's audit chamber found about 15bn rubles (about £260m) in "unreasonable" cost overruns in the preparations for the Sochi Olympics.
(9) He may find himself with asset freezes, on Russian business, American business may pull back, there may be a further tumble of the ruble.” The Obama administration is also working with the European Union and International Monetary Fund to fast-track a package of financial aid and loans, in order to shore-up Ukraine’s economy.
(10) The Bok o Bok festival won an appeal last month against a 400,000 rubles (almost £8,000) fine imposed on it after being named a "foreign agent" (ie, in receipt of funding from overseas) by authorities.
(11) Also on Wednesday, the Duma gave initial approval to a new libel law that would introduce fines of up to 500,000 rubles (£9,850) and sentences of up to five years in prison.
(12) Enzymic therapy helped reduce the length of inpatient therapy of a patient by 5.93 days on an average in cases with orchidoepididymitis and by 14.64 days in gonorrhea relapses, with the economic effect per worker being 131.4 and 307.2 rubles, respectively.
(13) Taking into account these data on approximate value for the whole country will amount to no less than 3.4 billion rubles.
(14) Five Russian cinema chains have been fined a total of more than 4m rubles (£68,000) for showing Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street in apparent contravention of laws banning the promotion of illegal drugs.
(15) In the first three months of 2014, the ruble lost 9 percent against the dollar, making imports more expensive, while spooked investors pulled about $70 billion out of the country more than in all of 2013.
(16) This has prompted a downgrade of Russian debt by international credit rating agencies and a slide in the ruble, but to be effective the economic warfare needs support from larger trading partners in Europe and Asia.
(17) A Russian film festival that mounts screenings and discussions relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues has been fined 500,000 rubles (almost £10,000) and named as a "foreign agent" by authorities .
(18) Hospital stays related to early or late complications also amounted to 32,723 bed days at a cost of total postabortal complications of 1,839,230 rubles.
(19) Russian law was recently changed regarding public gatherings to dramatically raise the fine for taking part in an unauthorised protest to 300,000 rubles (£6,000).
(20) It increases fines for individual participants 150 times to 300,000 rubles (£6,000) and for organisers to 1 million rubles.