ash

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/æʃ/

noun 10name 5verb 4adv 1

Collocations

(noun.) powder that is left after sth has burnt

ADJ

glowing, hot, red-hot, smouldering

The firefighters carefully spread water over the smouldering ash to make sure the fire wouldn't start again.

cold, dead

The dead ashes from last night's campfire still lay scattered across the ground.

fine

A layer of fine ash settled on the car after the nearby forest fire.

bonfire, cigarette, coal, volcanic, wood

QUANT

cloud

Thick ash covered the streets after the factory fire spread through the neighborhood.

VERB + ASH

flick, tap (used about cigarette ash)

She tapped ash from her cigarette onto the plate.

reduce sth to, turn to ~es

The old factory was reduced to ashes after the fire spread through the building.

ASH + VERB

fall

When the forest fire spread, ash fell heavily on the nearby town and covered everything in gray dust.

PHRASES

rise from the ashes

After the fire destroyed the factory, the company managed to rise from the ashes and rebuild stronger than before.

(noun.) ashes: remains of a dead body

VERB + ASH

scatter

The family decided to scatter their grandfather's ashes in the ocean.

Definitions

noun

Solid remains of a fire.

The audience was more captivated by the growing ash at the end of his cigarette than by his words.

Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.

The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.

Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.

Human (or animal) remains after cremation.

The urn containing his ashes was eventually removed to a closet.

Mortal remains in general.

Napoleon’s ashes are not yet extinguished, and we’re breathing in their sparks.

verb

To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.

I dried the extracted leather very slowly on the steam bath […] until the substance was dry enough to ash. […] I think that the discrepancy in the percentages of "total ash" by method No. 2 and No. 6 is due to this excessive heat required to ash the leather […]

The inorganic material left after ashing lung tissue specimens not only contains inhaled particles but also very large quantities of inorganic residue derived from the tissue itself.

To hit the end off (a burning cigar or cigarette).

"Nonsense," Mrs. Gardiner challenged, ashing her cigarette.

He realized that he was standing staring at her and he sat down quickly, making a business of ashing his cigarette.

To mark (someone) with an ashen cross on the forehead to observe Ash Wednesday.

To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.

Last spring, after I planted, I took what ashes I have saved during the last year, and put on my corn […] . On harvesting I cut up the two rows which were not ashed (or twenty rods of them,) and set them apart from the others in stouts; and then I cut up two rows of the same length, on each side, which had been ashed, […]

After the corn was planted, upon acre A, I spread broadcast one hundred bushels of lime, (cost $3) and fifty bushels of ashes, (cost $6.) […] The extra crop of the combination over the limed acre or ashed, was paid by the increased crop, […]

noun

A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus.

The ash trees are dying off due to emerald ash borer.

The woods planted in ash will see a different mix of species.

Any tree of certain species of other genera.

The wood of this tree.

The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English.

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Idioms & Phrases

clash of the ash

hurling (the sport)

Example Bank

The audience was more captivated by the growing ash at the end of his cigarette than by his words.

Wiktionary

Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.

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Ashes from the fire floated over the street.

Wiktionary

The inorganic material left after ashing lung tissue specimens not only contains inhaled particles but also very large quantities of inorganic residue derived from the tissue itself.

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Ash and silica contents of the plant material were determined by classical gravimetric techniques. Tissue samples were ashed in platinum crucibles at about 500 °C, and the ash was treated repeatedly w

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In some senses, ash is marked as archaic, obsolete. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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