Definition of Rust

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Definition of Rust

Rust

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.

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.

That which resembles rust in appearance or effects.

A composition used in making a rust joint. See Rust joint, below.

Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.

Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.

To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.

To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.

To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.

To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.

To impair by time and inactivity.

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Rust Quotations

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Joseph Addison

It's better to burn out than it is to rust.
Neil Young

Better to burn out than rust out.
Neil Young

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
Milan Kundera

If you rest, you rust.
Helen Hayes

I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.
Keith Moon

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
Bishop Robert South

I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.
Jeanne Calment

Rust Translations

rust in Dutch is verroesten, roesten
rust in Finnish is ruoste
rust in French is rouille, se rouiller
rust in German is einrosten, verrosten
rust in Italian is arrugginire, griglia
rust in Norwegian is rust
rust in Swedish is rost, rosta

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