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Rust

//ɹʌst// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    of the brown color of rust wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A multiparadigm programming language focused on safety, especially safe concurrency.

    "In Rust, the compiler plays a gatekeeper role by refusing to compile code with these elusive bugs, including concurrency bugs."

Noun
  1. 1
    The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation; it consists mostly of iron(III) oxide (ferric oxide) and iron(II) oxide (ferrous oxide). countable, uncountable

    "The rust on my bicycle chain made cycling to work very dangerous."

  2. 2
    A strong reddish brown color. wordnet
  3. 3
    A similar substance based on another metal. countable, uncountable

    "copper rust"

  4. 4
    any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants wordnet
  5. 5
    A reddish-brown color. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water wordnet
  2. 7
    A disease of plants caused by a reddish-brown fungus (Pucciniales). countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi wordnet
  4. 9
    Damage caused to stamps and album pages by a fungal infection. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To oxidize, especially of iron or steel. intransitive

    "The patio furniture had rusted in the wind-driven spray."

  2. 2
    become coated with oxide wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause to oxidize. transitive

    "The wind-driven spray had thoroughly rusted the patio furniture."

  4. 4
    become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid wordnet
  5. 5
    To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust. intransitive

    "I am sorry to say that, contrary to the majority, I have to report that the forage rusted rather badly."

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  1. 6
    cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid wordnet
  2. 7
    To (cause to) degenerate in idleness; to make or become dull or impaired by inaction. ambitransitive, figuratively

    "Must I rust in Egypt? never more / Appear in arms, and be the chief of Greece?"

  3. 8
    Of a black cat or its fur, to turn rust-coloured following long periods of exposure to sunlight. intransitive

    "It's very common for black cats to rust during the summer."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English rust, rost, roust, from Old English rust, rūst (“rust”), from Proto-West Germanic *rust, from Proto-Germanic *rustaz (“rust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rudʰso- (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”). Cognate with Scots roust (“rust”), Saterland Frisian rust (“rust”), West Frisian roast (“rust”), Dutch roest (“rust”), German Rost (“rust”), Danish rust (“rust”), Swedish rost (“rust”), Norwegian rust, ryst (“rust”), Finnish ruoste, Estonian rooste. Related to red.

Etymology 2

From Middle English rusten, from the noun (see above).

Etymology 3

* As an Alemannic German surname, from Rust * As a German surname, from Middle Low German ruste, from Old Saxon rasta, from Proto-West Germanic *rastu, from Proto-Germanic *rastō (“rest, pause”). * As an English and Scots surname, from Old English rust (“red, ruddy”), from Proto-Germanic *rustaz.

Etymology 4

Graydon Hoare, who initiated the language, has stated that it was possibly named after rust fungi and may be related to robust.

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