Definition of rust

"rust" in the noun sense

1. rust

a red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture

2. rust

a plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems caused by various rust fungi

3. rust, rusting

the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water

4. rust, rust fungus

any of various fungi causing rust disease in plants

"rust" in the verb sense

1. corrode, rust

become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid

"The metal corroded"

"The pipes rusted"

2. corrode, eat, rust

cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid

"The acid corroded the metal"

"The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink"

3. rust

become coated with oxide

"rust" in the adjective sense

1. rust, rusty, rust-brown

of the brown color of rust

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Quotations for rust

Too much rest is rust. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Rust wastes more than use. [ French Proverb ]

Idleness makes the wit rust. [ Proverb ]

Much rust needs a rough file. [ Proverb ]

Few minds wear out; more rust out. [ Bovee ]

Better to wear out than to rust out. [ Bishop Cumberland ]

Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul.
Activity will cleanse and brighten it. [ Johnson ]

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use,
As though to breathe were life. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

As rust eats iron, so care eats the heart. [ Abbe Ricard ]

It is better to wear out than to rust out. [ Bishop Cumberland ]

The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years. [ Pope ]

The rust rots the steel which use preserves. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

Rust consumes iron, and envy consumes itself. [ Danish Proverb ]

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets;
But gold that's put to use more gold begets. [ William Shakespeare ]

Woman's tongue is her sword, which she never lets rust. [ Madame Necker ]

Labour is preferable to idleness, as brightness to rust. [ Plato ]

A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection;
And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder. [ Tupper ]

Idleness is not a vice: it is a rust that destroys all virtues. [ Duc de Nemours ]

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness. [ Plato ]

Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves. [ Owen Feltham ]

Ennui is the rust of the mind born of idleness. It is unused tools that corrode. [ Mme. de Girardin ]

Shun idleness: it is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals. [ Voltaire ]

And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul. [ Dr. Watts ]

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain: for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break. [ Bancroft ]

The most civilised are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. [ Rivarol ]

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. [ Beecher ]

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs. [ Beecher ]

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Words containing the sequence rust

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