Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A loose mass of angular fragments of rock or masonry crumbled by natural or human forces.
- noun Irregular fragments or pieces of rock used in masonry.
- noun The masonry made with such rocks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Rough stones of irregular shapes and sizes, broken from larger masses either naturally or artificially, as by geological action, in quarrying, or in stone-cutting or blasting.
- noun Masonry of rubble; rubble-work.
- noun By extension, any solid substance in irregularly broken pieces.
- noun The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. [Prov. Eng.]
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
- noun 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.
- noun (Geol.) A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.
- noun Prov. Eng. The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
- noun rubble masonry in which courses are formed by leveling off the work at certain heights.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The broken remains of an object, usually
rock ormasonry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It takes only a moment to turn what you describe as rubble into a series of activities, of joyous moments.
Life is Good and the amazing Schuyler Waynforth Sissie 2009
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It takes only a moment to turn what you describe as rubble into a series of activities, of joyous moments.
Archive 2009-06-01 Sissie 2009
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"Between 1999 and 2001, the Muslim Waqf removed and dumped more than 13,000 tons of what it termed rubble from the Mount and its substructure, including archaeological remains from the First and Second Temple periods."
Destruction of The Temple Mount Lionheart 2007
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The Fairfax County, Va., urban search and rescue team is preparing to travel to Haiti, to help search for victims among the rubble from a strong earthquake that struck the island nation.
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The students stayed with a local pastor and his wife and spent their days clearing rubble from a local church, playing soccer and other games with children who had lost their homes and doing whatever they could to make life easier in the community.
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Some 2,500 miners from Europe and countries with mining expertise, such as South Africa, have worked around the clock to move about 27 million tons of rock and rubble from the twin tunnels, working toward each other from opposite ends.
Swiss Finish World 2010
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Some 2,500 miners, drawn from all over Europe, as well as from countries with mining expertise like South Africa, have worked around the clock to move around 27 million tons of rock and rubble from the twin tunnels.
Tunnel Meeting Marks Breakthrough for Transalpine Rail Transit Neil MacLucas 2010
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But for many parents whose children were buried in rubble, their nightmare has never gone away for the entire year.
Global Voices in English » China: A citizen campaign to reveal the forgotten dead 2009
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Memoriam could be used when the rubble is finally cleared in Haiti and untold numbers of bodies are uncovered.
Craig Newmark: Memoriam: allow relief workers to speak for the dead Craig Newmark 2010
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Memoriam could be used when the rubble is finally cleared in Haiti and untold numbers of bodies are uncovered.
Craig Newmark: Memoriam: allow relief workers to speak for the dead Craig Newmark 2010
chained_bear commented on the word rubble
In castle architecture, walling made of rough, undressed stones or fill stone. In Bedrock, the short husband of Betty and neighbor of Fred.
August 26, 2008