Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The scattered remains of something broken or destroyed; rubble or wreckage.
- noun Carelessly discarded refuse; litter.
- noun Geology An accumulation of relatively large rock fragments.
- noun Biology The fragmented remains of dead or damaged cells or tissue.
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- noun
Rubble ,wreckage ,scattered remains of somethingdestroyed . - noun
Litter anddiscarded refuse . - noun The
ruins of abroken-down structure - noun geology Large
rock fragments left by a meltingglacier etc.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Instead, he found Moreland inside, apparently dead, half-buried in debris from a direct bomb hit on the operations center.
Moreland, James L. 1968
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The flight dynamics folks stated that the debris is approximately 10 cm in size, 2.8 km in front of Atlantis, .15 km below and 3.9 km out of plane.
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The flight dynamics folks stated that the debris is approximately 10 cm in size, 2.8 km in front of Atlantis, .15 km below and 3.9 km out of plane.
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So there wasn't enough time to do what they call a debris avoidance maneuver.
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Given that, in most shooters, you have to avoid these kinds of explosions to stay alive, it takes a while for you to realise that collecting this debris is a good idea.
Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » Review: Flatland 2005
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MYERS: We have a lot of what we call debris in the air.
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OVERALL: And this is -- I guess this is what they call the debris field.
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The officer did not see the crash, which occurred about 9: 50 p.m., but came upon what he described as a debris cloud, police
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The officer who was in pursuit just moments earlier did not see the crash, but came upon what he described as a debris cloud, said police
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The satellite debris is projected to come within about half a mile of the space station early Tuesday.
qroqqa commented on the word debris
BrE speakers strongly prefer stress on the initial syllable (either /'deb-/ or /'deɪb-/) to final /-'briː/ (83% in a 2007 survey for the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary).
August 4, 2008
sionnach commented on the word debris
What de mohel gives de boychild.
August 5, 2008
dontcry commented on the word debris
Mazel!
August 5, 2008