different between oak vs ash

English

Etymology

From Middle English ook, oke, aik, ake, from Old English ?c (also as Old English ??), from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ey?- (“oak”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /o?k/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??k/
• enPR: ?k
• Rhymes: -??k

Noun

oak (countable and uncountable, plural oaks)

2. (countable) A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.
   • Instead there were the white of aspens, streaks of branch and slender trunk glistening from the green of leaves, and the darker green of oaks, and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.

3. (uncountable) The wood of the oak.
4. A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.

5. Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae.
6. Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.
   1. The she-oaks in Allocasuarina and Casuarina, of family Casuarinaceae
   2. Lagunaria, white oak, in family Malvaceae
   3. Various species called silky oak, in family Proteaceae
   4. Toxicodendron, poison oak, in family Anacardiaceae
   5. Various tanbark oak or stone oak species in family Fagaceae, genera Lithocarpus and Notholithocarpus.
7. The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase "to sport one's oak").
   • 1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet, Prout's Lovely Black Eye

     It was hardly the thing for a master to sport his oak where another member of the staff was concerned.

   • The New Sporting Magazine (volume 15, page 23)

     The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.

8. (wine) The flavor of oak.

Alternative forms

• (oak tree): woak, yack (England, dialectal, possibly obsolete)

Hypernyms

• (oak tree): tree

Meronyms

• (oak tree): acorn

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

oak (not comparable)

1. having a rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
2. made of oak wood or timber

   an oak table, oak beam, etc

Synonyms

• (made of oak): oaken

Translations

Verb

oak (third-person singular simple present oaks, present participle oaking, simple past and past participle oaked)

1. (wine, transitive) To expose to oak in order for the oak to impart its flavors.

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

• oak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• oak at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• A-OK, AOK, Kao, Oka, koa, oka

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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Translations

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, […]

Translations

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

Derived terms

Translations

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”)