What's the difference between rusk and rust?

Rusk


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of light, soft bread made with yeast and eggs, often toasted or crisped in an oven; or, a kind of sweetened biscuit.
  • (n.) A kind of light, hard cake or bread, as for stores.
  • (n.) Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The food they give us is biscuits, rusks and apples.
  • (2) The sucrose in the rusks, rather than their content of other sugars such as glucose, maltose and lactose, etc, emerged as a major factor in determining their effect on teeth, but cereal components can also play a part in governing adhesiveness and fermentability.
  • (3) A review of recent research conducted at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York City concerning speech and language deficits in closed head injured patients (CHI).
  • (4) The caries scores in the animal experiments ranged from very high, with rampant dental destruction, for 31%-sucrose rusks, down to virtually non-cariogenic on a zero-sucrose variety.
  • (5) Exposure tests with ispaghula powder mixed with crushed rusks were made in symptomatic subjects.
  • (6) The strain was cultivated for seven days at high relative humidity on a substrate mostly of cereals (Karlovarské suchary--Carlsbad rusks).
  • (7) But we can replace a large proportion of the beef in lasagne ready meals or rusk in sausages with buckwheat without the taste being affected, and consumers eating a more sustainable meal.” • This article was updated on 20 August.
  • (8) Especially popular with local lawyers at lunchtime, this small taverna’s excellent menu includes such classic Cretan dishes as barley rusks topped with tomatoes and mizithra cheese and peppery sautéed wild greens.
  • (9) Howard A. Rusk earned the approbation "Father of Rehabilitation Medicine" when he first demonstrated that rehabilitation of the ill and injured made it possible to restore meaning to life and at the same time reduce the duration and costs of disability.
  • (10) The US secretary of state, Dean Rusk, told one of the secretary general's aides that President Kennedy was "extremely upset" and was threatening to withdraw support from the UN.
  • (11) The commonest age for starting solid feeding was between 3 and 4 weeks and the practice of adding rusk or cereal to the bottle was common.
  • (12) As well as having to appeal to Asda Woman or Worcester Woman or Mumsnet Woman, or any other variety of female dreamed up by male wonks who go red when a lady speaks to them, the leader's wife can be expected to be derided as "out of touch" if she doesn't know the price of a packet of custard creams or a rusk or something.
  • (13) In response to concern over the sugar content and possible dental effects of infants' rusks, a programme of research was undertaken to compare six different kinds of rusk with respect to (a) their cariogenicity in caries-active laboratory rats; (b) their capacity to serve as substrates for acid production by oral microorganisms, and the attack of this acid on dental mineral; (c) the adhesiveness of the rusks to the enamel surface.
  • (14) The N-terminal segment of human interleukin-2 (hIL-2) appears to mediate binding of the beta hIL-2 receptor (R. Robb, C. Rusk, J. Yodoi, and W. Greene, Proc.
  • (15) In addition, Rusk and Betts have been magnificent in attracting the public's attention to the needs of the disabled.
  • (16) In my experience, this distinguished list of advocates has included Rusk, Kottke, Lowman, Lehmann, Spencer, Ditunno and Materson.
  • (17) Only 20 brands were recommended for use as emergency rations or as nutritious supplements; eight brands were similar to traditional baked biscuits and four were infant rusks.

Rust


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.
  • (n.) The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion.
  • (n.) A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.
  • (n.) That which resembles rust in appearance or effects.
  • (n.) A composition used in making a rust joint. See Rust joint, below.
  • (n.) Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.
  • (n.) Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.
  • (v. i.) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.
  • (v. i.) To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.
  • (v. t.) To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.
  • (v. t.) To impair by time and inactivity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reasoning in Rust v Sullivan allows government to limit freedom of speech in federally funded programs.
  • (2) Here, abandoned cars don’t just sit and rust, they are swallowed by the jungle.
  • (3) The cause, they claimed, was emissions from the mine's sulphuric acid factory as well as outflow from mountains of rust-red waste, dumped over 15 years with little concern for the environment.
  • (4) The bean rust fungus, Uromyces appendiculatus, undergoes thigmotropic differentiation to produce infection structures.
  • (5) Pain relief is more rapid after electric drill removal; this is probably related to the complete removal of the rust.
  • (6) And no wonder: unemployment in the Garden State is at a 35-year high of 9.8% – the fourth-worst in the nation – and unlike in the Rust Belt states or other hard-hit regions, in Jersey unemployment is still climbing .
  • (7) Hill, who cut an unusual touchline figure in green jacket and rust cords, preferred to praise Wednesday for the quality of their set plays rather than blast his defenders for their inability to defend them.
  • (8) Worse, pests like the berry borer beetle and leaf rust fungus are flourishing as the world warms.
  • (9) The rusted bike was found in a large white container where its owner, Ikuo Yokoyama, had kept it.
  • (10) Mr X invested money into buying old equipment from other abandoned coal mines – this was not difficult because abandoned mines with rusting equipment are not in short supply in North Korea today.
  • (11) This week a beachcomber in British Columbia found a moving crate containing a rusting Harley-Davidson motorcycle registered to Japan's Miyagi prefecture, which absorbed the brunt of the tsunami.
  • (12) One white lump sits beside the rusted-out remains of a bucket.
  • (13) In the glow of the thing's own flame they saw edificial flanks, the concrete and rust of them, the iron of the pylon barnacled, shaggy with benthic growth now lank gelatinous bunting.
  • (14) The Trump vote contained rednecks and inhabitants of the rust belt, just as south Wales and Sunderland turned out for Brexit – but in neither case was that the whole story.
  • (15) The best actress award Last year Marion Cotillard's turn in Jacques Audiard's Rust & Bone , as a waterpark trainer who loses her legs, was beaten to the best actress award by two troubled nuns in Romanian drama Beyond the Hills.
  • (16) Basidiomycetes, a complex and common group of fungi, which include mushrooms, rusts, smuts, brackets, and puffballs, have not been well studied.
  • (17) Naturally, insider accounts suggest electoral calculation : Trump reckoned that the people who put him in the White House, especially blue collar workers in the rust-belt states, have long seen global warming as a con.
  • (18) We cannot let that happen.” “He says he has foreign policy experience because he ran the Miss Universe pageant in Russia,” she said, adding at another point in the speech: “This isn’t reality television, this is actual reality.” Later, Clinton added: “It is not hard to see how a Trump presidency could lead to a global economic crisis.” The former secretary of state’s speech, staged in front of a wall of US flags, rebutted a foreign policy address Trump made in April in which he promised to save “humanity itself” and “shake the rust off America’s foreign policy”.
  • (19) Where other politicians might be accused of dog-whistle politics, Trump was broadcasting at a frequency accessible to all, exploiting the nation’s three biggest weaknesses: rust, race and ignorance.
  • (20) Steel surfaces can be treated with zinc and chromates to prevent the steel from rusting.

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