The difference between Gangue and Spoil

When used as nouns, gangue means the earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore, whereas spoil means (also in plural: spoils) plunder taken from an enemy or victim.


Spoil is also verb with the meaning: to strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.

check bellow for the other definitions of Gangue and Spoil

  1. Gangue as a noun (mining):

    The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore.

  1. Spoil as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.

  2. Spoil as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.

  3. Spoil as a verb (ambitransitive, archaic):

    To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).

  4. Spoil as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.

  5. Spoil as a verb (transitive):

    To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.

  6. Spoil as a verb (transitive):

    To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.

  7. Spoil as a verb (intransitive):

    Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.

    Examples:

    "Make sure you put the milk back in the fridge, otherwise it will spoil."

  8. Spoil as a verb (transitive):

    To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.

  9. Spoil as a verb (transitive):

    To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.

  1. Spoil as a noun:

    (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.

  2. Spoil as a noun (uncountable):

    Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or dredging. Tailings.