Rust
The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion.
A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.
That which resembles rust in appearance or effects.
A composition used in making a rust joint. See Rust joint, below.
Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.
Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.
To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.
To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.
To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.
To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.
To impair by time and inactivity.
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Rust Quotations
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William Shakespeare
It's better to burn out than it is to rust.
Neil Young
Better to burn out than rust out.
Neil Young
If you rest, you rust.
Helen Hayes
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Joseph Addison
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
Milan Kundera
It is better to rust out than wear out.
Edwin Markham
I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.
Keith Moon
I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit.
Jeanne Calment
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
Bishop Robert South
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Gene Fowler
Idleness is to the human mind like rust to iron.
Ezra Cornell
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
Antisthenes
First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.
Vinny Testaverde
A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.
James Stephens
Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Owen Feltham
New links must be forged as old ones rust.
Jane Howard
I don't want to rust out, I'd rather wear out.
Fritz Hollings
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Rust Translations
rust in Dutch is verroesten, roesten
rust in Finnish is ruoste
rust in French is rouille, se rouiller
rust in German is einrosten, verrosten
rust in Italian is arrugginire, griglia
rust in Norwegian is rust
rust in Swedish is rost, rosta
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