different between dirt vs ash

English

Alternative forms

• durt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English drit (“excrement”), from Old Norse drit (“excrement”), from Proto-Germanic *drit?, *drit? (“excrement”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?reyd-, *treyd?- (“to have diarrhea”). Cognate with Norwegian dritt (“excrement”), Icelandic drit (“bird excrement”), Dutch drijten (“to defecate”), drits (“dirt, mud, filth”) and dreet (“excrement”), Low German drieten (“to defecate”), Driet (“shit”), regional German Driss (“shit”), Old English ?edr?tan (“to defecate”), Albanian ndyrë (“dirty, filthy”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: dû(r)t, IPA^(key): /d??t/
• (General American) enPR: dûrt, IPA^(key): /d?t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

dirt (usually uncountable, plural dirts)

1. (chiefly US) Soil or earth.
2. A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.

   Synonym: filth

3. Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person.

   Synonyms: gossip, kompromat
4. (figuratively) Meanness; sordidness.
   • 1810, W. Melmoth (translator), Letters of Pliny

     honours […] thrown away upon dirt and infamy

5. (mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
6. freckles
   • 1983 Pat Phoenix Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt page 158

     I'm one of Charlie's Angels too, but I'm the one with the dirty face.

   • 2005 Kevin O'Hara, "Last of the Donkey Pilgrims: A Man's Journey Through Ireland" page 244

     a dirty-faced redhead poked a soiled kerchief beneath my nose, and charmlessly wheedled, "Spare coppers, mister, Spare coppers!" This runny-nosed waif, a "knacker" in the Dublin vernacular, was of the traveling breed who had of late given up their painted wagons for the grimy ghettos of the city. The child -God Bless the Mark- had freckles that splotched her face as though God had applied them too hurriedly with a blunt brush.

   • 2016 Lindsay Bowman, To The Girls With Dirt On Their Faces

     Whatever you love about your freckles, they make you unique and beautiful. Don't always feel that you need to clean that dirt off your face with that foundation powder or contour layers. You're naturally beautiful as you are!

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Verb

dirt (third-person singular simple present dirts, present participle dirting, simple past and past participle dirted)

1. (transitive, rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty

Anagrams

• tri-D

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?sh, IPA^(key): /æ?/

• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English asshe, from Old English æs?e, from Proto-West Germanic *ask?, from Proto-Germanic *ask? (compare West Frisian jiske, Dutch as, Low German Asch, German Asche, Danish aske, Swedish aska, Norwegian ask), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eHs-; see it for cognates.

The rare plural axen is from Middle English axen, axnen, from Old English axan, as?an (“ashes”) (plural of Old English axe, æs?e (“ash”)).

Noun

ash (countable and uncountable, plural ashes)

1. The solid remains of a fire.

2. (chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
3. Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
4. (in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.

5. (figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.
6. A gray colour, like that of ash.

Synonyms

• (cremation remains): cremains

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Verb

ash (third-person singular simple present ashes, present participle ashing, simple past and past participle ashed)

1. (chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.
   • 1919, Harry Gordon, Total Soluble and Insoluble Ash in Leather, published in the Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association, W. K. Alsop and W. A. Fox, eds, volume XIV, number 1, on page 253

     I dried the extracted leather very slowly on the steam bath […] until the substance was dry enough to ash. […] I think that the discrepancy in the percentages of "total ash" by method No. 2 and No. 6 is due to this excessive heat required to ash the leather […]

   • 1981, Hans Weill, Margaret Turner-Warwick, and Claude Lenfant, eds, Occupational Lung Diseases: Research Approaches and Methods, Lung Biology in Health and disease, volume 18, page 203

     The inorganic material left after ashing lung tissue specimens not only contains inhaled particles but also very large quantities of inorganic residue derived from the tissue itself.

   • 1989?, Annals of Botany, volume 64, issues 4-6, page 397

     Ash and silica contents of the plant material were determined by classical gravimetric techniques. Tissue samples were ashed in platinum crucibles at about 500 °C, and the ash was treated repeatedly with 6 N hydrochloric acid to remove other mineral impurities.

   • 2010, S. Suzanne Nielsen, ed, Food Analysis, fourth edition, ?ISBN, Chapter 12, "Traditional Methods for Mineral Analysis", page 213

     A 10-g food sample was dried, then ashed, and analyzed for salt (NaCl) content by the Mohr titration method (AgNO₃ + Cl ? AgCl). The weight of the dried sample was 2g, and the ashed sample weight was 0.5g.

2. (intransitive) To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.
3. (transitive) To hit the end off (a burning cigar or cigarette).
4. (obsolete, mostly used in the passive) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.
   • 1847, H., Ashes on Corn.---An Experiment, published in the Genesee Farmer, volume 8, page 281

     Last spring, after I planted, I took what ashes I have saved during the last year, and put on my corn […] . On harvesting I cut up the two rows which were not ashed (or twenty rods of them,) and set them apart from the others in stouts; and then I cut up two rows of the same length, on each side, which had been ashed, […]

   • 1849, in a letter to James Higgins, published in 1850 in The American Farmer, volume V, number 7, pages 227-8

     After the corn was planted, upon acre A, I spread broadcast one hundred bushels of lime, (cost $3) and fifty bushels of ashes, (cost $6.) […] The extra crop of the combination over the limed acre or ashed, was paid by the increased crop, […]

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Etymology 2

From Middle English asshe, from Old English æs?, from Proto-Germanic *askaz, *askiz (compare West Frisian esk, Dutch es, German Esche, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish ask), from Proto-Indo-European *Heh?s- (compare Welsh onnen, Latin ornus (“wild mountain ash”), Lithuanian úosis, Russian ?????? (jásen?), Albanian ah (“beech”), Ancient Greek ???? (oxúa, “beech”), Old Armenian ???? (hac?i)).

Noun

ash (countable and uncountable, plural ashes)

1. (countable, uncountable) A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus.

2. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
3. The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English.

Synonyms

• (tree): ash tree

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See also

• Yggdrasil

References

• Fraxinus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Fraxinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Fraxinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• AHS, Ahs, Hsa., SHA, ahs, has, sha, šâh, š?h

Middle English

Noun

ash

1. Alternative form of asshe (“burnt matter”)