different between debris vs pentice

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)

1. Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:debris
2. Litter and discarded refuse.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:trash
3. The ruins of a broken-down structure.
4. (geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.

Translations

Anagrams

• Brides, biders, birdes, brides, rebids, sibred

English

Etymology

From Middle English pentis, pendize, and other spellings; from Anglo-Norman pentiz, aphetic of Old French apentis (“appendage, attached building”), from Medieval Latin appendicium, from Latin appendo (“to hang”). Doublet of appentice and penthouse.

Noun

pentice (plural pentices)

1. An extension of a building's roof and the protected area beneath; an appentice.
2. A covered walkway.
3. (mining) An unexcavated portion of a shaftway, intended to afford protection from falling debris to workers at the bottom of the shaft during certain stages of mining.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:pentice.

Synonyms

• (appentice): pent

Translations

Anagrams

• pectine