English to afrikaans meaning of

Volgens die woordeboek kan die woord "roes" verskeie betekenisse hê, insluitend:Selfstandige naamwoord: 'n Rooibruin laag wat op die oppervlak van yster of staal vorm wanneer dit aan lug blootgestel word en vog vir 'n lang tydperk, veroorsaak deur die oksidasie van die metaal.Voorbeeldsin: Die ou fiets het vlekke roes op sy raam gehad.Werkwoord (onoorgaand): Om korrosie of oksidasie te ondergaan, wat tipies lei tot die vorming van roes op die oppervlak van metaal.Voorbeeldsin: Die verlate motor was jare lank in die veld gelaat om te roes.Werkwoord (oorgaand): Om metaal te laat korrodeer of oksideer, wat gewoonlik die vorming van roes tot gevolg het.Voorbeeldsin: Blootstelling aan soutwater kan metaal vinnig roes.Selfstandige naamwoord: 'n Toestand van agteruitgang of agteruitgang wat veroorsaak word deur verwaarlosing, ongebruik of gebrek aan onderhoud .Voorbeeldsin: Die eens florerende dorp het ná die sluiting van die fabriek in 'n toestand van roes verval.Werkwoord (oorganklik): Om iets verouderd of verouderd te laat raak weens 'n gebrek aan gebruik of relevansie.Voorbeeldsin: Tegnologievooruitgang kan ou besigheidsmodelle vinnig roes.Selfstandige naamwoord: 'n Swamsiekte wat plante aantas, gekenmerk deur bruinerige kolle of kolle op blare of stingels.Voorbeeldsin: Die roosbosse in die tuin het ontwikkel roes op hul blare.Werkwoord (onoorgaand): Om verkleur of gevlek te word as gevolg van die vorming van roes.Voorbeeldsin : Die metaalpype het geroes en het gelek.Hierdie is 'n paar van die verskillende betekenisse van die woord "roes", afhangende van die gebruik daarvan in verskillende kontekste.

Sentence Examples

  1. Khaly spent the rest of her night watch scraping away the rust to get the gear into working condition.
  2. The closed gates are of heavy old oak and iron, all eaten with rust.
  3. Hawke was already standing at the ready with his usual sword poised, still splotched as ever with rust.
  4. They led Don Quixote into a room, and Sancho removed his armour, leaving him in loose Walloon breeches and chamois-leather doublet, all stained with the rust of his armour his collar was a falling one of scholastic cut, without starch or lace, his buskins buff-coloured, and his shoes polished.
  5. She inspected one that was the right size, but it had a great deal of rust.
  6. They drove a rusty freight truck that had been painted over many times to cover the rust.
  7. The first thing he did was to clean up some armour that had belonged to his great-grandfather, and had been for ages lying forgotten in a corner eaten with rust and covered with mildew.
  8. Samson offered him one, as he knew a friend of his who had it would not refuse it to him, though it was more dingy with rust and mildew than bright and clean like burnished steel.
  9. As I thought about Beau and the importance of our friendship, the bell rang releasing bits of rust into the breeze.
  10. The tomb in the day-time, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance when time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined.