dust

Phonetic

US /dʌst/UK /dʌst/

Translations

NOUNFine particles Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc., Fine particles Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths., Fine particles A single particle of earth or other material., The act of cleaning by dusting., The earth, as the resting place of the dead., The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body., Something worthless., cash; money (in reference to gold dust)., A disturbance or uproar., A low or mean condition., Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error., A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.

VERBTo remove dust from., To remove dust; to clean by removing dust., Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth., To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid., To leave; to rush off., To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate., To kill., To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.

PROPNA surname.

Variants

dusts: Third Person Singular, Plural
dusting: Present Participle
dusted: Past Participle, Past Tense

Examples

Whether you’re planning to put together a server from enterprise-tier equipment or just want to reuse an old PC that’s been gathering dust, you’ll need to arm your tinkering node with an operating system.
Source:www.xda-developers.com
, calm down before we rebuild our own manufacturing and leave you in the dust
Source:www.reddit.com
But the calibrators themselves need to be calibrated, which has led to a rickety chain of assumptions and measurements in which small errors and disagreements — about, say, how much dust is interfering with observations — can build up to cosmic proportions
Source:cn.nytimes.com
Is it possible, they will wonder, that India—long left in the dust by China’s rapid rise—will be able to take advantage of its still growing working-age cohort to catch up with China (see chart 2), and eventually to rival its power? It will be a year of much demographic head-scratching
Source:www.economist.com
And if people get there, they will be greeted by a barren terrain, icy temperatures, dust storms, and air that is impossible to breathe.
Source:www.nytimes.com

dust

Phonetic

Translations

Variants

Examples

Expand your vocabulary now