Dust

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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, fiber debris, dead skin cells, etc.

   “There is so much dust released during the process of laying ballast that the trackside operator wears a full face mask with respirator.”

2. isim Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
3. isim Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.

   “Astronomers have previously considered that dust produced by the star was obscuring it, causing the steep decline in brightness.”

4. isim Disintegration of a solid, like silica.
5. isim Flour.
6. isim A single fine, dry particle of earth or other material; grain of dust.

   “to touch a dust of England’s ground”

7. isim The act of cleaning by dusting.

   “[…]once they start school, I mean you can do a room out one day, the next day it only needs a dust, doesn’t it?”

8. isim The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
9. isim Earth, ground, soil, sediment.

   “But I should turn mine ears and hear The moanings of the homeless sea, ⁠The sound of streams that swift or slow ⁠Draw down Æonian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be; […]”

10. isim The earth as the resting place of the dead.

    “For now shall I sleep in the dust.”

11. isim The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.

    “For I will leave my relics in your land, / And you may carve a shrine about my dust, / And burn a fragrant lamp before my bones, / When I am gather’d to the glorious saints.”

12. isim The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
13. isim Something worthless.

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

14. isim A low or mean condition.

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

15. isim Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
16. isim cash; money (in reference to gold dust).

    “‘And what do you ask for it?’ ‘Fifteen thousand dollars.’ ‘I’ll take it.’ ‘Then down with the dust.’”

17. isim A cloud of dust.
18. isim A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.

    “to raise, or kick up, a dust”

19. isim A fight or row.
20. isim A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
21. fiil To remove dust from.

    “The cleaning lady needs a stool to dust the cupboard.”

22. fiil To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.

    “Dusting always makes me cough.”

23. fiil To make dusty, to soil with dust.
24. fiil Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
25. fiil To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.

    “The mother dusted her baby’s bum with talcum powder.”

26. fiil To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
27. fiil To leave quickly; to rush off.

    “He added in a casual tone: ‘The girl can dust. I’d like to talk to you a little, soldier.’”

28. fiil To drink up quickly; to toss off.
29. fiil To reduce to a fine powder; to pulverize, to levigate.

    “good Powder differs from bad […]in having more Peter and less Coal; and lastly, in the well dusting of it”

30. fiil To strike, beat, thrash.