[Rumori] Fwd: detritus: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
Jon Nelson
postconsumer01 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 13 10:20:08 PDT 2005
Hey Rumorites and Detrivores. The secret word of the
day is...
Detritus!!!
jon nelson
www.PostConsumerProductions.com
--- Doctor Dictionary <doctor at dictionary.com> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:00:01 -0700
> To: "Dictionary.com Word of the Day"
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> From: Doctor Dictionary <doctor at dictionary.com>
> Subject: detritus: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
>
> Word of the Day for Wednesday April 13, 2005
>
> detritus \dih-TRY-tuhs\, noun;
> plural detritus:
> 1. Loose material that is worn away from rocks.
> 2. Hence, any fragments separated from the body
> to which they
> belonged; any product of disintegration; debris.
>
> The water was smooth and brown, with detritus
> swirling in
> the eddies from the increasing current.
> --Gordon Chaplin, [1]Dark Wind: A Survivor's
> Tale of Love
> and Loss
>
> If they [flying cars] were easy to produce,
> we'd be walking
> around wearing helmets to protect us from the
> detritus of
> flying car crashes.
> --Gail Collins, "Grounded for 2000," [2]New
> York Times,
> December 7, 1999
>
> The loose detritus of thought, washed down
> to us through
> long ages.
> --H. Rogers, Essays
>
>
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>
> Detritus derives from the past participle of
> Latin deterere,
> "to rub away, to wear out," from de-, "from"
> + terere, "to
> rub." It is related to detriment, at root "a
> rubbing away, a
> wearing away," hence "damage, harm."
>
> References
>
> 1.
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0452281822/ref%3Dnosim/lexico
> 2. http://www.nytimes.com/
>
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