Lot vs. Rot
Lotnoun
A large quantity or number; a great deal.
Lotnoun
A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively.
Lotnoun
One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
Lotnoun
(informal) A number of people taken collectively.
Lotnoun
A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.
Lotnoun
That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
Lotnoun
Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.
Lotnoun
The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
Lotnoun
A prize in a lottery.
Lotnoun
Allotment; lottery.
Lotnoun
All members of a set; everything.
Lotnoun
An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.
Lotverb
To allot; to sort; to apportion.
Lotverb
To count or reckon (on or upon).
Lotnoun
That which happens without human design or forethought; chance; accident; hazard; fortune; fate.
Lotnoun
Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without man's choice or will; as, to cast or draw lots.
Lotnoun
The part, or fate, which falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without his planning.
Lotnoun
A separate portion; a number of things taken collectively; all objects sold in a single purchase transaction; as, a lot of stationery; - colloquially, sometimes of people; as, a sorry lot; a bad lot.
Lotnoun
A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field; as, a building lot in a city.
Lotnoun
A large quantity or number; a great deal; as, to spend a lot of money; to waste a lot of time on line; lots of people think so.
Lotnoun
A prize in a lottery.
Lotverb
To allot; to sort; to portion.
Lotnoun
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
Lotnoun
a parcel of land having fixed boundaries;
Lotnoun
your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);
Lotnoun
any collection in its entirety;
Lotnoun
an unofficial association of people or groups;
Lotnoun
anything (straws or pebbles etc.) taken or chosen at random;
Lotnoun
(Old Testament) nephew of Abraham; God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah but chose to spare Lot and his family who were told to flee without looking back at the destruction
Lotverb
divide into lots, as of land, for example
Lotverb
administer or bestow, as in small portions;
Lotpronoun
a large number or amount; a great deal
Lotpronoun
the whole number or quantity that is involved or implied
Lotadverb
a great deal; much
Lotnoun
a river of southern France, which rises in the Auvergne and flows 480 km (300 miles) west to meet the River Garonne south-east of Bordeaux.
Lotnoun
(in the Bible) the nephew of Abraham, who was allowed to escape from the destruction of Sodom (Gen. 19). His wife, who disobeyed orders and looked back, was turned into a pillar of salt.
Lotverb
divide (items) into lots for sale at an auction
Rotverb
(intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
Rotverb
(intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
Rotverb
(ambitransitive) To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt.
Rotverb
(transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
Rotverb
To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).
Rotverb
(transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
Rotnoun
The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
Rotnoun
Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
Rotnoun
Verbal nonsense.
Rotverb
To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving off usually in some stages of the process more or less offensive odors; to become decomposed by a natural process; to putrefy; to decay.
Rotverb
Figuratively: To perish slowly; to decay; to die; to become corrupt.
Rotverb
To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes; as, to rot vegetable fiber.
Rotverb
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
Rotnoun
Process of rotting; decay; putrefaction.
Rotnoun
A disease or decay in fruits, leaves, or wood, supposed to be caused by minute fungi. See Bitter rot, Black rot, etc., below.
Rotnoun
A fatal distemper which attacks sheep and sometimes other animals. It is due to the presence of a parasitic worm in the liver or gall bladder. See 1st Fluke, 2.
Rotnoun
decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
Rotnoun
(biology) decaying caused by bacterial or fungal action
Rotnoun
unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
Rotverb
break down;
Rotverb
waste away;
Rotverb
(chiefly of animal or vegetable matter) decay or cause to decay by the action of bacteria and fungi; decompose
Rotverb
gradually deteriorate, especially through neglect
Rotverb
make fun of; tease
Rotnoun
the process of decaying
Rotnoun
rotten or decayed matter.
Rotnoun
any of a number of fungal or bacterial diseases that cause tissue deterioration, especially in plants.
Rotnoun
liver rot in sheep.
Rotnoun
a process of deterioration; a decline in standards
Rotnoun
corruption on the part of officials.
Rotnoun
nonsense; rubbish
