different between rust vs oxygen

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?st, IPA^(key): /??st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle English rust, rost, roust, from Old English rust, r?st (“rust”), from Proto-West Germanic *rust, from Proto-Germanic *rustaz (“rust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rud?so- (“red”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?rewd?- (“red”).

Cognate with Scots roust (“rust”), Saterland Frisian rust (“rust”), West Frisian roast (“rust”), Dutch roest (“rust”), German Rost (“rust”), Danish rust (“rust”), Swedish rost (“rust”), Norwegian rust, ryst (“rust”). Related to red.

Noun

rust (countable and uncountable, plural rusts)

1. The deteriorated state of iron or steel as a result of moisture and oxidation.

   The rust on my bicycle chain made cycling to work very dangerous.

2. A similar substance based on another metal (usually with qualification, such as "copper rust").

   aerugo. Green or blue-green copper rust; verdigris. (American Heritage Dictionary, 1973)

3. A reddish-brown color.

4. A disease of plants caused by a reddish-brown fungus.
5. (philately) Damage caused to stamps and album pages by a fungal infection.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rusten, from the noun (see above).

Verb

rust (third-person singular simple present rusts, present participle rusting, simple past and past participle rusted)

1. (intransitive) To oxidize, especially of iron or steel.

   The patio furniture had rusted in the wind-driven spray.

2. (transitive) To cause to oxidize.

   The wind-driven spray had thoroughly rusted the patio furniture.

3. (intransitive) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust.
4. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To (cause to) degenerate in idleness; to make or become dull or impaired by inaction.
   • 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy

     Must I rust in Egypt? never more / Appear in arms, and be the chief of Greece?

Synonyms

• oxidise / oxidize
• corrode

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• RTUs, UTRs, ruts, stur, turs

Danish

Etymology

From Old Swedish rost (“rust”), from Old Norse *rustr, possibly borrowed from Old Saxon rost, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rustaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rost/, [??sd?]

Noun

rust c (singular definite rusten, not used in plural form)

1. rust
2. corrosion

Verb

rust

1. imperative of ruste

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?st/
• Hyphenation: rust
• Rhymes: -?st

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch ruste, from Old Dutch *rusta, from Proto-Germanic *rustij?. Cognate with German Low German Rüst (“rest”).

Noun

rust f (plural rusten)

1. rest, calm, peace

2. (sports) half-time

Derived terms

• rusteloos
• rustig

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

rust

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of rusten
2. imperative of rusten

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rust m or f (definite singular rusta or rusten) (uncountable)

1. rust (oxidation of iron and steel)
2. rust (disease affecting plants)

Derived terms

• rustrød

Verb

rust

1. imperative of ruste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *rustaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?st/

Noun

rust f (definite singular rusta) (uncountable)

1. rust (oxidation, as above)
2. rust (plant disease)

Verb

rust

1. imperative of rusta and ruste

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??st/

Verb

rust

1. past participle of rusa

References

• “rust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French oxygène (originally in the form principe oxygène, a variant of principe oxigine ‘acidifying principle’, suggested by Lavoisier), from Ancient Greek ???? (oxús, “sharp”) + ????? (génos, “birth”), referring to oxygen's supposed role in the formation of acids.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?k's?j?n, IPA^(key): /??ks?d??n/

Noun

oxygen (countable and uncountable, plural oxygens)

2. The chemical element (symbol O) with an atomic number of 8 and relative atomic mass of 15.9994. It is a colorless and odorless gas.

   Hypernym: chalcogen

3. Molecular oxygen (O₂), a colorless, odorless gas at room temperature, also called dioxygen.
4. (medicine) A mixture of oxygen and other gases, administered to a patient to help them breathe.
5. (countable) An atom of this element.
   • 2013, Spencer L. Seager, Michael R. Slabaugh, Chemistry for Today: General, Organic, and Biochemistry (page 479)

     Look first at any structure to see if there is a carbon with two oxygens attached. Hemiacetals, hemiketals, acetals, and ketals are all alike in that regard.

6. (figuratively) A condition or environment in which something can thrive.

   Silence is the oxygen of shame.

   They hoped to starve the terrorists of the oxygen of publicity.

Synonyms

• sourstuff
• E948 when used as a packaging gas

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Burmese: ??????????? (aukhcigyang)

Translations

References

• Oxygen on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

See also

• ozone

Danish

Noun

oxygen n (singular definite oxygenet, not used in plural form)

1. oxygen

   Synonym: ilt

German

Adjective

oxygen

1. (chemistry) oxygenic

   Antonym: anoxygen

Declension

Related terms

• Oxygen

Swedish

Noun

oxygen n

1. (archaic, strictly sciences) oxygen

   Synonym: syre