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dust
English
Etymology
From Middle English dust, doust, from Old English d?st (“dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder”), from the fusion of Proto-Germanic *dust? (“dust”) and *dunst? (“mist, dust, evaporation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“to smoke, raise dust”).Cognate with Scots dust, dist (“dust”), Dutch duist (“pollen, dust”) and dons (“down, fuzz”), German Dust (“dust”) and Dunst (“haze”), Swedish dust (“dust”), Icelandic dust (“dust”), Latin f?mus (“smoke, steam”). Also related to Swedish dun (“down, fluff”), Icelandic dúnn (“down, fluff”). See down.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
- Homophone: dost
Noun
dust (countable and uncountable, plural dusts)
- Fine particles
- (uncountable) 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.
- (astronomy, uncountable) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- (obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- 2010, Joan Busfield, Michael Paddon, Thinking About Children: Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England (page 150)
- […] 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?
- 2010, Joan Busfield, Michael Paddon, Thinking About Children: Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England (page 150)
- The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
- For now shall I sleep in the dust.
- The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites
- And you may carve a shrine about my dust.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites
- (figuratively) Something worthless.
- (figuratively) A low or mean condition.
- [God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust.
- (slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
- (colloquial) A disturbance or uproar.
- to raise, or kick up, a dust
- (mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
dust (third-person singular simple present dusts, present participle dusting, simple past and past participle dusted)
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
- (chiefly US slang) To leave; to rush off.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 75:
- He added in a casual tone: ‘The girl can dust. I'd like to talk to you a little, soldier.’
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 75:
- To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
- To kill or severely disable.
Derived terms
- dust bunny
- dust down
- duster
- dust off
Translations
See also
- vacuum cleaner
Anagrams
- UDTs, duts, stud
Faroese
Noun
dust n (genitive singular dusts, uncountable)
- dust
Declension
Icelandic
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German dûst, from Proto-Germanic *dunst?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
Noun
dust n (genitive singular dusts, no plural)
- dust
- Synonyms: ryk, duft
Declension
Middle English
Alternative forms
- doust, duste, doste, dyste
Etymology
Forms with a long vowel are from Old English d?st, from Proto-Germanic *dunst?. Forms with a short vowel are from Old English *dust, from Proto-Germanic *dust?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dust/, /du?st/
Noun
dust (uncountable)
- dust, powder
- dirt, grit
- (figuratively) iota, modicum
Related terms
- dusten (rare)
- dusty
Descendants
- English: dust
- Scots: dust, dist
References
- “d??st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Back-formation of dustet, from Old Norse dust (dust particle)
Noun
dust m (definite singular dusten, indefinite plural duster, definite plural dustene)
- (derogatory) dork, moron, fool
Synonyms
- dustemikkel
- tomsing
- tosk
- tufs
- støv
Etymology 2
From Old Norse dust.
Noun
dust f or m (definite singular dusta or dusten, indefinite plural duster, definite plural dustene)
- dust (fine, dry particles)
References
- “dust” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse dust (dust particle), compare with dustete
Noun
dust m (definite singular dusten, indefinite plural dustar, definite plural dustane)
- (derogatory) dork, moron, fool
Synonyms
- dustemikkel
- tomsing
- tosk
- tufs
- støv
Etymology 2
From Old Norse dust.
Noun
dust f (definite singular dusta, indefinite plural duster, definite plural dustene)
- dust (fine, dry particles)
References
- “dust” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *dunst? (“dust, vapour”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ew- (“vapour, smoke”). Akin to Hindi ???? (dhu??, “smoke”), Middle Dutch dost, donst, duust (Dutch dons, duist), Old High German tunst, dunst (German Dunst), Low German dust, Icelandic dust, Norwegian dust, Danish dyst.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /du?st/
Noun
d?st n
- dust; powder; mill dust
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: dust, doust
- English: dust
- Scots: dust, dist
Old Norse
Noun
dust n
- dust particle
Descendants
- Icelandic: dust
- Faroese: dust
- Norwegian: dust
- Swedish: dust
- Danish: dyst
References
- dust in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
dust m (genitive singular dust, no plural)
- dust
Usage notes
- Also used figuratively for corpse.
Synonyms
- duslach
- stùr
Derived terms
- dustach
- dustaig
- dustair
Zazaki
Noun
dust c
- side; one half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone.
- to level
Derived terms
- dustê
- dusta
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fog
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /f??/
- (US) IPA(key): /f??/, /f??/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain; but probably of North Germanic origin, from Danish fog (“spray, shower, drift, storm”), related to Icelandic fok (“spray, any light thing tossed by the wind, snowdrift”), Icelandic fjúka (“to blow, drive”), from Proto-Germanic *feukan? (“to whisk, blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pug- (“billow, bulge, drift”), from *pew-, *pow- (“to blow, drift, billow”). Related to German fauchen (“to hiss, spit, spray”).
Noun
fog (countable and uncountable, plural fogs)
- (uncountable) A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud.
- Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
- Synonyms: haze, mist
- (uncountable) A mist or film clouding a surface.
- Synonym: steam
- A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- Synonyms: daze, haze
- (photography) A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- (computer graphics) Distance fog.
Usage notes
- To count sense thick cloud, bank of fog is usually used.
- To count sense clouding a surface, foggy patch is usually used.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
fog (third-person singular simple present fogs, present participle fogging, simple past and past participle fogged)
- (intransitive) To become covered with or as if with fog.
- (intransitive) To become obscured in condensation or water.
- Synonyms: become cloudy, become steamy
- (intransitive, photography) To become dim or obscure.
- (transitive, photography) To make dim or obscure.
- (transitive, photography) To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
- (transitive) To cover with or as if with fog.
- 1968, Eighth Annual Report, Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, p 7:
- Fogging for adult mosquito control began on June 4th in residential areas. Until September 25th, the Metro area was fogged eleven times, using nine truck-mounted foggers, eight hand swing foggers, and two boats.
- 1968, Eighth Annual Report, Metropolitan Corporation of Greater Winnipeg, p 7:
- (transitive) To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- (transitive) To obscure in condensation or water.
- (transitive) To make confusing or obscure.
- Synonyms: blur, cloud, obscure
- To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
- Where wouldst thou fog to get a fee?
Translations
Etymology 2
Origin uncertain. Compare Scots fog (“moss; lichen”), Norwegian fogg.
Noun
fog (uncountable)
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- (Britain, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season; foggage.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- (Scotland) Moss.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
fog (third-person singular simple present fogs, present participle fogging, simple past and past participle fogged)
- (transitive) To pasture cattle on the fog, or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from.
- (intransitive) To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
References
- fog in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- fog in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- GoF
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?fo?]
- Hyphenation: fog
- Rhymes: -o?
Etymology 1
From Proto-Ugric *pu??- (“to grasp, to catch”). Cognates include Mansi ???? (puvi).
Verb
fog
- (transitive) to hold (to keep in one's hands)
- (transitive) to take (to get into one's hands)
- (transitive) to catch, to capture (to seize by force, especially to grab or trap an animal)
- (transitive, broadcasting) to receive (to detect a signal from a transmitter)
- (transitive, by extension, slang) to listen to, to hear, to understand (to pay attention to someone)
- (transitive, intransitive followed by rajta) to affect, to harm (to have an effect on, especially detrimentally)
- (intransitive) to write (of a pen or other writing instrument, to leave a mark)
- (intransitive) to transfer (of ink or dye, to leave a stain upon contact)
- (transitive, ball games) to mark (to follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending)
- (auxiliary, with an infinitive, only in indicative present) will, going to (used to form the future tense)
- (reflexive, followed by és) to up and (to do something abruptly or unexpectedly)
Conjugation
Derived terms
(With verbal prefixes):
Etymology 2
From Proto-Uralic *pi?e (“tooth”). Cognates include Mansi ???? (pu?k), Finnish pii.
Noun
fog (plural fogak)
- (anatomy) tooth
- tooth, cog
- tooth (a sharp projection on a saw or similar implement)
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- (verb) fog in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
- (noun) fog in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Swedish
Noun
fog n (not commonly inflected)
- Valid cause, valid reason.
- (dated) Appropriate manner to proceed.
Derived terms
Noun
fog c
- joint, seam
Declension
Derived terms
References
- fog in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
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