dust

[Dust]

Dust is the fine, powdery substance that settles on surfaces over time or is blown around outdoors. A junk shop might be full of beautiful old furniture and books, all covered with dust.

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Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.

Noun
fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air; "the furniture was covered with dust"

Noun
free microscopic particles of solid material; "astronomers say that the empty space between planets actually contains measurable amounts of dust"

Noun
the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

Verb
remove the dust from; "dust the cabinets"

Verb
rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape; "The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image"

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Verb
distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon"

Verb
cover with a light dusting of a substance; "dust the bread with flour"

n.
Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.

n.
A single particle of earth or other matter.

n.
The earth, as the resting place of the dead.

n.
The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.

n.
Figuratively, a worthless thing.

n.
Figuratively, a low or mean condition.

n.
Gold dust

n.
Coined money; cash.

v. t.
To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.

v. t.
To sprinkle with dust.

v. t.
To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.

Dust

Dust , n. [AS. dust; cf. LG. dust, D. duist meal dust, OD. doest, donst, and G. dunst vapor, OHG. tunist, dunist, a blowing, wind, Icel. dust dust, Dan. dyst mill dust; perh. akin to L. fumus smoke, E. fume. .] 1. Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.

Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

Stop! -- for thy tread is on an empire's dust.

2. A single particle of earth or other matter. [R.] "To touch a dust of England's ground." Shak. 3. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.

For now shall sleep in the dust.

4. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.

And you may carve a shrine about my dust.

5. Figuratively, a worthless thing.

And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust.

6. Figuratively, a low or mean condition.

[God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust.

7. Gold dust; hence: (Slang) Coined money; cash. Down with the dust, deposit the cash; pay down the money. [Slang] "My lord, quoth the king, presently deposit your hundred pounds in gold, or else no going hence all the days of your life. . . . The Abbot down with his dust, and glad he escaped so, returned to Reading." Fuller. -- Dust brand (Bot.), a fungous plant (Ustilago Carbo); -- called also smut. -- Gold dust, fine particles of gold, such as are obtained in placer mining; -- often used as money, being transferred by weight. -- In dust and ashes. See under Ashes. -- To bite the dust. See under Bite, v. t. -- To raise, ∨ kick up, dust, to make a commotion. [Colloq.] -- To throw dust in one's eyes, to mislead; to deceive. [Colloq.]

Dust

Dust , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dusting.] 1. To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor. 2. To sprinkle with dust. 3. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate. Sprat. To dyst one's jacket, to give one a flogging. [Slang.]

Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.

To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.

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Usage Examples

I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.