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dust English

Meaning dust meaning

What does dust mean?
Definitions in simple English

dust Noun

— Dust is a thin powder that can be seen in the air or on a surface. The old building was filled with dust.

dust Verb

— If you dust something, you remove dust from it. Sally dusted her house to prepare it for a party.

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 (= debris) 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 — verb cover with a light dusting of a substance dust the bread with flour — noun free microscopic particles of solid material astronomers say that the empty space between planets actually contains measurable amounts of dust — verb (= scatter) distribute loosely He scattered gun powder under the wagon

Synonyms dust synonyms

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dust English » English

powder dirt ashes ash soil sand earth sweep clean brush rubbish particle wipe sweepings sprinkle trash rub ground dot wipe off soot scatter sawdust pollen dust off disperse cloud of dust clear away cinders whisk tidy up smoke rubble litter land junk grime garbage fine sand detritus debris cloud bespangle beat worldly affairs wipe dry wind and dust wind willy-willy whirlwind

Topics dust topics

What do people use dust to talk about?
Daily life Cleaning

Wipe, erase
Universe, creation World Substance, matter

Soil, dirt
Physical actions Arrange Put

Load, pile
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Wind
Person Life Die

Corpse
States Big Distance

Far

Conjugation dust conjugation

How do you conjugate dust?

dust · verb

Examples dust examples

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Simple sentences

We need to dust the table.
The wind blew the dust from the balcony.
Wipe the dust off the table.
The pictures were covered in dust.
Dust had accumulated on the desk.
All the furniture was covered with dust.
The dust rose in clouds.
Dust covers the desk.
He is allergic to house dust.
The table was covered with dust.
Will you please wipe the dust off the table?
It was all covered with dust.
Covered with dust, the doll stood in the corner of the room.
The ladder was covered with dust and rust.
The desk is covered with dust.
The rain laid the dust.
The car passed by, raising a cloud of dust behind it.
The empty house was full of dust.
The machine was coated with dust.
Jack brushed the dust off his coat.
The car left a cloud of dust behind it.
Each passing car threw up a cloud of dust.
The car raised a cloud of dust.

Movie subtitles

The sad truth of the matter is that Earth-like planets are mere cosmic specks of dust, and, therefore, detecting them is really quite hard.
When Kepler sees a star that dims, it could be due to a speck of dust that crossed in front of the telescope.
I remember standing in the closet, half-dressed, reaching for my shoes when I saw that you had drawn this little heart In the dust on my shoe.
The astronomers run at full speed turning around each time they are pressed too closely and reducing the fragile beings to dust.
Stop raising so much dust.
Just a bit of magic dust. and there it is again.
And when you rave of your insane desire to create living men from the dust of the dead, a strange apparition has seemed to appear in the room.
Give me Michigan Avenue on a hot afternoon. and you can have all the yellow dust this side of Seattle.
Spit gold dust?
It will burn into your heart till your pride is in the dust.
I'm in the dust at your feet.
The foes of Islam shall be as dust and the wind of the wrath of Islam shall scatter their dust over the earth.
You shall go with me and from my tent you shall see the foes of Islam swept like dust before the might of Allah.
For the Egyptians it was Isis' wheat, the Incas saw it as golden star dust, for the Eskimos it was a band of snow and the Christians thought of it as the road to Rome.
Large quantities of dust between the stars obscured a clear view to distant parts and the Centre.
Because emission from that wavelength went practically unhindered by the clouds of dust, so emission from all parts oi the Galaxy would be visible!
These were the days before oil fuel made stoking a lady's job - when stokers earned their pay in sweat and coal-dust.
Kicking a herd of crawling coolies around. fighting fever. swallowing dust one month, wading in mud the next, just so some old woman can take her hot water bottle to bed with her?
Raise enough dust to make them think half the British army's coming to relieve us, hurry.
He'd killed 'em both and raised a big cloud of dust a mile and a half the other side of them.
That little cloud of dust he raised grew into a whirlwind, turned itself into a cyclone and wiped out one-fourth ofTexas. before they could stop it. Jimminies!
It's covered with dust.
Mummy Dust to make me old. To shroud my clothes, the black of night.
She's so particular, if an article is half an inch out of place or if there's a speck of dust on anything, she notices it.
Hide under a dust-cover.
Well Billy, when you finish sweeping you can dust.
Thanks, Dust and Sash.
I remember standing in the closet, half-dressed, reaching for my shoes when I saw that you had drawn this little heart in the dust on my shoe.
Ashes to ashes! Dust to dust!
A moment ago I knew only that men were dust, and their end was dust.
And now suddenly I know for the first time. that men bear a dream within them. a dream that lifts them above their dust. and their little days.
We're going to sweep him right off his feet, - right here in the dust of Havana. - How, V. S?
And just look at that fireplace. It's covered with dust.
Mummy dust to make me old.
It's something else. It's a ruin. Ruins and dust.
Been eating' dust for 10 hours.

News and current affairs

KIEV: Chernobyl, the world's most notorious nuclear power plant, will be shut down today, fourteen years after it spewed clouds of radioactive dust into the atmosphere.
The Middle East is a place where the dust hardly ever settles.
During any lull, a fanatic from either side could jump to center stage and, through an act of utter madness, kick up the settling dust and dash the hopes of the many on both sides who still long for a lasting peace.
Revolutions are exciting, but we must make sure that we still have a home to return to when the barricades come down and the dust settles.
In the short run, the best approach is to follow Wolfensohn's advice, give the dust a chance to settle in Palestine, and await the outcome of Israel's election later this month.
Certainly, after the dust has settled, numbers play a role in evaluating the costs and benefits (if any), of a war.
Yet, for the moment, Trump is leaving all his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination in the dust.
Likewise, just a hundred years ago, the average American family spent six hours each week during cold months shoveling six tons of coal into the furnace (not to mention cleaning the coal dust from carpets, furniture, curtains, and bedclothes).
Now that the dust from that dispute has settled, and with a new Commission in place, it is time to ask what lessons can be drawn from this affair.
The Arab Peace Initiative has been collecting dust for over six years.
The risk is that robotics and automation will displace workers in blue-collar manufacturing jobs before the dust of the Third Industrial Revolution settles.
When pulverized by bombs and missiles, asbestos fibers are freed and can be inhaled with the rest of the dust.
When the dust settled, it turned out that American, Dutch, and other importers all suffered roughly the same degree of shortfall and paid the same damaging high price.
Among the environmental effects are also health effects following exposure to hazardous materials, such as inhalation of smoke from burning oil fields or uranium dust, resulting in asthma and possibly lung cancer.
NEW YORK - It has become popular to suggest that when the dust settles from the global financial crisis, it may become clear that the United States-led post-war world has come to an end.
Foreign journalists with hand-held air pollution detectors have been popping up on street corners checking levels of soot and dust.
Dust and smog choke its cities.
However, the assault from Japan, a speck of dust in its own backyard, shattered this self-assurance and was experienced as a shocking and intolerable humiliation.
But when the dust settles, the new data may be less revolutionary than some people believe.
Out of the welter of dust, noise, welders' sparks, flotillas of cement mixers and construction cranes, the setting for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games is taking shape.
Syria is suffering untold civilian casualties as a divided United Nations Security Council sits on the sidelines. Gaza was pummeled to dust yet again with the world watching on. Iraq is in flames, with no end in sight.
The struggle to mold our future, to stave off the humanitarian disasters of war, disease, and starvation leaves little room to be philosophical about our place on this crumb of cosmic dust.
Just eight years after Kennedy's announcement, astronaut Neil Armstrong pressed his footprint into the lunar dust.
The Wall's collapse in 1989 forced European Commission officials to dust off atlases to find places about which they knew little and cared less.
Eventually, after the dust has settled, it may be possible to reach inter-governmental agreements to tidy up some of the institutional arrangements that would have been settled if the new constitution had been approved.

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