Meaning of "rot" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ROT

Old English rotian (vb); related to Old Norse rotna. C13 (noun), from Scandinavian.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF ROT

rot  [rɒt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROT

Rot is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb rot in English.

WHAT DOES ROT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rot

Rot or rotting may refer to: ▪ Decomposition, the process by which organic matter breaks down ▪ Dry rot and wet rot in wood ▪ Rot-proof, a process to protect materials from decomposition Technology ▪ Bit rot, the gradual electronic decay of storage media and software ▪ Disk rot, the physical decay of optical disks such as CDs due to chemical or electrical damage ▪ Software rot, a form of bit rot ▪ Link rot, in which hyperlinks on web pages become broken over time ▪ ROT13, a simple substitution cipher in cryptography Places ▪ Rot, a river in Upper Swabia, Germany ▪ Rot an der Rot, a village on the Rot river ▪ Sankt Leon-Rot, a municipality in Baden-Württemberg, Germany ▪ Rot, Sweden, a village in the Älvdalen Municipality, Sweden Other uses ▪ Rot, a vector operator in mathematics ▪ Rotting, an album by the Brazilian metal band Sarcofago ▪ TAROM, a Romanian airline, ICAO code ROT ▪ Recording of transmission, a record made of material broadcast on a radio station...

Definition of rot in the English dictionary

The first definition of rot in the dictionary is to decay or cause to decay as a result of bacterial or fungal action. Other definition of rot is to fall or crumble or break, as from natural decay, corrosive action, or long use. Rot is also to become weak, debilitated, or depressed through inertia, confinement, etc; languish.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ROT

PRESENT

Present

I rot

you rot

he/she/it rots

we rot

you rot

they rot

Present continuous

I am rotting

you are rotting

he/she/it is rotting

we are rotting

you are rotting

they are rotting

Present perfect

I have rotted

you have rotted

he/she/it has rotted

we have rotted

you have rotted

they have rotted

Present perfect continuous

I have been rotting

you have been rotting

he/she/it has been rotting

we have been rotting

you have been rotting

they have been rotting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I rotted

you rotted

he/she/it rotted

we rotted

you rotted

they rotted

Past continuous

I was rotting

you were rotting

he/she/it was rotting

we were rotting

you were rotting

they were rotting

Past perfect

I had rotted

you had rotted

he/she/it had rotted

we had rotted

you had rotted

they had rotted

Past perfect continuous

I had been rotting

you had been rotting

he/she/it had been rotting

we had been rotting

you had been rotting

they had been rotting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will rot

you will rot

he/she/it will rot

we will rot

you will rot

they will rot

Future continuous

I will be rotting

you will be rotting

he/she/it will be rotting

we will be rotting

you will be rotting

they will be rotting

Future perfect

I will have rotted

you will have rotted

he/she/it will have rotted

we will have rotted

you will have rotted

they will have rotted

Future perfect continuous

I will have been rotting

you will have been rotting

he/she/it will have been rotting

we will have been rotting

you will have been rotting

they will have been rotting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would rot

you would rot

he/she/it would rot

we would rot

you would rot

they would rot

Conditional continuous

I would be rotting

you would be rotting

he/she/it would be rotting

we would be rotting

you would be rotting

they would be rotting

Conditional perfect

I would have rot

you would have rot

he/she/it would have rot

we would have rot

you would have rot

they would have rot

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been rotting

you would have been rotting

he/she/it would have been rotting

we would have been rotting

you would have been rotting

they would have been rotting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you rot
we let´s rot
you rot

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to rot

Past participle

rotted

Present Participle

rotting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «ROT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «rot» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of rot

balderdash · balls · bilge · bizzo · blight · bosh · break down · bull · bull´s wool · bullshit · bunk · canker · claptrap · cobblers · codswallop · corrode · corrosion · corrupt · corruption · crap · crumble · decay · decline · decompose · decomposition · degenerate · deteriorate · deterioration · disintegrate · disintegration · drivel · eyewash · fester · flapdoodle · garbage · go bad · guff · hogwash · hokum · horsefeathers · hot air · languish · malarkey · moonshine · mould · moulder · nonsense · pants · pap · perish · piffle · poppycock · putrefaction · putrefy · putrescence · rubbish · shit · spoil · taint · tommyrot · tosh · trash · tripe · twaddle

TRANSLATION OF ROT

Find out the translation of rot to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of rot from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rot» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 腐烂
• Translator English - Spanish: pudrirse
• English: rot
• Translator English - Hindi: सड़ांध
• Translator English - Arabic: يَتَعَفَّنُ
• Translator English - Russian: гнить
• Translator English - Portuguese: apodrecer
• Translator English - Bengali: পচা
• Translator English - French: pourrir
• Translator English - Malay: Reput
• Translator English - German: verfaulen
• Translator English - Japanese: 腐る
• Translator English - Korean: 썩다
• Translator English - Javanese: Rot
• Translator English - Vietnamese: thối rữa
• Translator English - Tamil: அழுகல்
• Translator English - Marathi: रॉट
• Translator English - Turkish: çürüme
• Translator English - Italian: marcire
• Translator English - Polish: zgnić
• Translator English - Ukrainian: псуватися
• Translator English - Romanian: a se descompune
• Translator English - Greek: σαπίζω
• Translator English - Afrikaans: rot
• Translator English - Swedish: ruttna
• Translator English - Norwegian: råtne

10 QUOTES WITH «ROT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word rot.

1

Mario Batali

We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me than the perfect carrot. I'm a gnarly carrot kind of guy.

2

Alex Campbell

However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.

3

Frank A. Clark

Why not upset the apple cart? If you don't, the apples will rot anyway.

4

Harry Crews

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.

5

Tove Jansson

People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees!

6

Florence King

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

7

Ezra Koenig

Some people say video games rot your brain, but I think they work different muscles that maybe you don't normally use.

8

Ray Kroc

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

9

Ray Kroc

As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

10

Rush Limbaugh

There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROT»

Discover the use of rot in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rot and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Let it Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition)

Contains advice for starting and maintaining a composting system, building bins, and using compost. Third Edition. 318,000 copies in print. This is the classic guide to turning household waste into gardener's gold!

Stu Campbell, 1998

The Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad: A Book about ...

Ms. Fizzle's class tours a rotten log

Linda Beech, Joanna Cole, 1995

Rot

Kyle Brubaker, a carefree California surfer, finds little to celebrate in a small Wisconsin town until he meets beautiful and spirited Marianne Avery.

Gary Brandner, 2012

Rot

Fiction. This is a story that tracks a father whose wish is to die in the open, open to the elements.

Janet Kauffman, 2001

Butt Rot and Bottom Gas: A Glossary of Tragically ...

The English language is full of words that sound dirty, but aren't: words like cunctator (a procrastinator) and spotted dick (a traditional English dessert).Seventh-grade teacher Eric Groves has spent years listening to his students giggle ...

Eric Groves, 2007

Jungle Rot

a master playwright's unfailed talent to entertain and empathize with outcasts, their vacillations and their revelations...is one of the playwright's most winning creations.

Seth Greenland, 1997

The Story of Noble Rot: Uzma Aslam Khan

Vividly narrated and full of funny yet complex dilemmas, this is a novel about the sweetness of life and about how we inexorably drive ourselves to our own doom. It marks the debut of a gifted storyteller from Pakistan.

Uzma Aslam Khan, 2001

Pecky rot

United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region. United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA wils,gov A 13.2:D 63/4/pecky Pecky rot. 1 ...

United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region, 1983

Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to

Rot can occur in unprotected lumber inside your house, and in buildings and fences outside that are subject to moisture or high levels of water vapor. Damp conditions allow fungal spores to develop and multiply, until eventually the piece of ...

Albert Jackson, David Day, 2009

Advanced Engineering Mathematics

Note que estes resultados são independentes dos sistemas de coordenadas; você poderá prová-los mais facilmente em coordenadas cartesianas. (i) grad (0 \ p) = \p grad 0 + 0 grad *p (11 .34) (ii) div (0 v) = (grad 0) . v + 0 div v (11.35) (iii) rot ...

Avinash Chandra Bajpai, L. R. Mustoe, Dennis Walker, 1977

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rot is used in the context of the following news items.

Dry rot suspected in fatal Folsom stairway collapse

More than a year before a stairway collapsed and killed a 26-year-old man last week, a different stairway came down at the 280-unit Folsom apartment complex, ... «Sacramento Bee, Jul 15»

New safety rules to be brought in after dry rot found to be cause of …

New safety rules for buildings in a US university city have been drawn up after investigations found severe dry rot in a balcony that collapsed killing six students ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»

Police arrest 23 during ROT Rally No Refusal

... Refusal continues Saturday night and wraps up at 5 a.m. Sunday morning. During the 2014 ROT Rally No Refusal weekend, 40 people were arrested for DWI. «KXAN.com, Jun 15»

Man says he didn't let 6-year-old daughter's teeth rot

EASTON, Pa. (AP) — The father who pleaded guilty after his daughter's teeth were found so rotten her life was endangered now says he didn't neglect his ... «Sharonherald, May 15»

Warning to dog owners as concern grows about spread of 'Alabama …

“The cause of Alabama Rot, clinically known as idiopathic cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy (CRGV), is still unknown and there is no known way to ... «Peterborough Telegraph, May 15»

Dog owners put on high alert as flesh-eating disease Alabama Rot …

Dog owners have been told be on high alert as flesh-eating disease Alabama Rot sweeps across Britain. Vets are warning pet owners to be vigilant as the ... «mirror.co.uk, Apr 15»

Go inside an abandoned NASCAR race track that's been left to rot …

Aside from a brief year of activity in 2011, the speedway has been left to rot in the elements. Photographer Seph Lawless captured the decrepitude as part of his ... «Business Insider, Mar 15»

Alabama rot outbreak hits dogs across the country

Outbreaks of Alabama rot, which attacks blood vessels in the skin and kidneys, have affected dogs in the US as long ago as the 1980s. But the disease was ... «Daily Mail, Mar 15»

Senator Says Gitmo Detainees 'Can Rot In Hell'

“As far as I'm concerned, every last one of them can rot in hell, but as long as they don't do that, then they can rot in Guantanamo Bay!” Cotton said, shutting off ... «ABC News, Feb 15»

Miss BumBum contestant reveals horrific results of fillers which …

Miss BumBum contestant Andressa Urach almost had to have her leg amputated after complications from fillers in her bottom and thighs caused her tissue to rot. «Metro, Jan 15»