different between erosion vs rotting

English

Etymology

From Middle French erosion, from Latin ?r?si? (“eating away”), derived from ?r?d?.

The first known occurrence in English was in the 1541 translation by Robert Copland of Guy de Chauliac's medical text The Questyonary of Cyrurygens. Copland used erosion to describe how ulcers developed in the mouth. By 1774 erosion was used outside medical subjects. Oliver Goldsmith employed the term in the more contemporary geological context, in his book Natural History, with the quote

"Bounds are thus put to the erosion of the earth by water."

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???o???n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???????n/

Noun

erosion (countable and uncountable, plural erosions)

1. (uncountable) The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
   • 1995, Graham Linehan & al., "Good Luck, Father Ted", Father Ted Series 1, Episode 1, Channel Four:

     Father Ted: The cliffs were gone? How could they just disappear?
     Dougal: Erosion.

   • 2012, George Monbiot, Guardian Weekly, August 24, p.20

     Even second-generation biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrients in the ground.

2. (uncountable) The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
3. (uncountable, figuratively) The gradual loss of something as a result of an ongoing process.

   the erosion of a person's trust

   trademark erosion, caused by everyday use of the trademarked term
4. (uncountable) Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
5. (mathematics, image processing) One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from which all other morphological operations are derived.
6. (dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
7. (medicine) A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.
8. (mathematics) In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ?); see Erosion (morphology).

Derived terms

Related terms

• erode

Translations

Anagrams

• Reinoso

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.?o.s?i.on/

Verb

erosion

1. Informal second-person singular feminine (hik), taking third-person singular (hari) as indirect object and third-person singular (hura) as direct object, present imperative form of erosi.

Friulian

Noun

erosion f (plural erosions)

1. erosion

Interlingua

Noun

erosion (plural erosiones)

1. erosion (shallow lesion or ulceration)

English

Etymology

From Middle English rotynge (“rotting”), from Old English rotung; equivalent to rot +? -ing. Conflated with Middle English rotende, present participle of roten (“to rot”), from Old English rotiende, present participle of rotian (“to rot”).

Verb

rotting

1. present participle of rot

Noun

rotting (plural rottings)

1. The process by which something rots.
   • 1686, Robert Plot, The Natural History of Staffordshire (page 214)

     […] the mould on the boles of the other [trees], that lyes commonly there, and is made of the annual rottings of their own leaves.

2. Material that has rotted.
   • c. 2009, Janice N. Harrington, Possum

     From the compost rinds and rottings, from the garbage peels, from the shadows' darkness, darkness, this guttered meal and all its redolence.

Related terms

• rottingness

Anagrams

• Gritton

Swedish

Etymology

From Dutch rotting, rotan, from Malay rotang.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²r?t??/
• Rhymes: -?t??

Noun

rotting c

1. any of several species of climbing palm of the genus Calamus; rattan
2. (uncountable) the plant used as a material for making furniture, baskets etc.; rattan
3. (by extension) a cane made from this material; rattan

Declension

References

• rotting in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)