different between debris vs colluvium
debris
English
Alternative forms
- débris
Etymology
Borrowed from French débris, itself from dé- (“de-”) + bris (“broken, crumbled”), or from Middle French debriser (“to break apart”), from Old French debrisier, itself from de- + brisier (“to break apart, shatter, bust”), from Frankish *bristijan, *bristan, *brestan (“to break violently, shatter, bust”), from Proto-Germanic *brestan? (“to break, burst”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?rest- (“to separate, burst”). Cognate with Old High German bristan (“to break asunder, burst”), Old English berstan (“to break, shatter, burst”). More at burst.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?b?i?/, /?de?b?i?/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??b?i?/
Noun
debris (uncountable)
- Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:debris
- Litter and discarded refuse.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trash
- The ruins of a broken-down structure.
- (geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.
Translations
Anagrams
- Brides, biders, birdes, brides, rebids, sibred
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colluvium
English
Noun
colluvium (plural colluvia or colluviums)
- (geology) A loose accumulation of rock and soil debris at the foot of a slope
Translations
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