Found 3 items, similar to Dust.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: dust
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: dust
dust
v 1: remove the dust from;
“dust the cabinets”
2: 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”
3: cover with a light dusting of a substance;
“dust the bread
with flour”
4: distribute loosely;
“He scattered gun powder under the
wagon” [syn:
scatter,
sprinkle,
dot,
disperse]
dust
n 1: fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can
be blown about in the air;
“the furniture was covered
with dust”
2: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken
up [syn:
debris,
junk,
rubble,
detritus]
3: free microscopic particles of solid material;
“astronomers
say that the empty space between planets actually contains
measurable amounts of dust”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Dust
Dust
\Dust\ (d[u^]st), 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. [root]71.]
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 to minute portions; fine powder;
as, clouds of dust; bone dust.
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Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
--Gen. iii.
19.
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Stop! -- for thy tread is on an empire's dust.
--Byron.
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2. A single particle of earth or other matter. [R.]
“To
touch a dust of England's ground.” --Shak.
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3. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
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For now shall sleep in the dust. --Job vii. 21.
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4. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of
the human body.
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And you may carve a shrine about my dust.
--Tennyson.
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5. Figuratively, a worthless thing.
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And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust. --Shak.
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6. Figuratively, a low or mean condition.
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[God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust. --1 Sam.
ii. 8.
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7. Gold dust; hence: (Slang) Coined money; cash.
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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 dust, or
To kick up dust, to make a commotion. [Colloq.]
To throw dust in one's eyes, to mislead; to deceive.
[Colloq.]
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Dust
\Dust\ (d[u^]st), 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.
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2. To sprinkle with dust.
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3. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate. --Sprat.
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To dyst one's jacket, to give one a flogging. [Slang.]
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