Synonym: debris, dust, junk, rubble. Similar words: detriment, detrimental, detract, detractor, metric, aptitude test, ritual, petrify. Meaning: [dɪ'traɪtəs] n. 1. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up 2. loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks.
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31. Good features Easily maintained and cleaned, very efficient at removing loose detritus, very quick and easy to fit.
32. This species is quite attractive with a pink and gold shell and feeds upon algae and diatom detritus.
33. The machine can remove detritus and dust from grain.
34. organic detritus from fish and plants.
35. Detritus usually consists of gravel, sand and clay.
36. Lithology of the Chang-8 oil reservoirs is mainly fine-medium lithic feldspathic sandstone and feldspathic detritus sandstone.
37. By the end of the night, the detritus from all this collective munching includes thousands of used wooden chopsticks destined for tomorrow's garbage pickup.
38. And that's what that mattress is: totally imbued with the bodily detritus of a human life, Pynchon She reflects, later, on the set of all men who had slept on that mattress.
39. The tidal river would push detritus into the most-used spots.
40. Till - less agriculture Reserved detritus from previous crops covers and protects the seedbed.
41. In the past week, Aisha Khadafy's house in Tripoli had been an attraction for many Libyans,(sentencedict.com) who posed for pictures and combed through the detritus of the only first family most have known.
42. Flora of clay desert is similar to that of detritus desert.
43. So detritus is a prior choice for the cities short of water in north China as paving material, for its high dust-...
44. Grit, fly ash, cinder residue, active carbon, air brick detritus were used as filtering media according to proper proportion for low concentration domestic sewage treatment.
45. Most galaxies abound with interstellar gas and dust the detritus of countless generations of stars.
46. It is not just Vanuatu that is benefiting from the detritus of war.
47. The intermediate and acid seamount which maybe exist , may be the main origin of felsic detritus.
48. The slate can be divided into three types: shaly, sandy and phyllitization slate. It was formed by regional metamorphism of fine detritus in continental shelf.
49. What do you do with the detritus of a former relationship? Torch everything? Sell the diamonds? Squirrel away the love letters and photos in the attic?
50. Exploiting detritus food chain is part of development system of grand agricultural re - sources.
51. In the end,(http://sentencedict.com/detritus.html) we obtain the optimized project after rationality analysis to vibrational detritus stake.
52. So look down at low water, and you'll see huge expanses of mud, liberally spattered with supermarket trolleys, old tyres, and other detritus .
53. In course of the energy flow, the proportion of total flow originating from detritus is 48%, and from primary producer is 52%.
54. The profile is established in response to the amount and type of detritus available.
55. A channel is no sooner cut than it chokes in its own detritus.
56. But I'm the purist type who hates even the thought of leaving any detritus around and insists upon a clean install to a pure, unsullied partition.
57. Today's coast is never clear but always strewn with plastic and other detritus.
58. Detritus Fragments of dead leaf litter and products of the breakdown of organic material by decomposers.
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