ash

名词 n. 动词 v. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Solid remains of a fire. countable,uncountable
    — The audience was more captivated by the growing ash at the end of his cigarette than by his words.
  2. Alternative form of aush. alt-of,alternative,uncountable
  3. A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus. countable,uncountable
    — The ash trees are dying off due to emerald ash borer.
  4. The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process. countable,uncountable
  5. Any tree of certain species of other genera. countable,uncountable
  6. Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash. countable,uncountable
  7. The wood of this tree. uncountable
    — English soldiers handled sturdy bows of yew, ash, or elm, which could propel an iron-tipped arrow as far as a hundred yards.
  8. Human (or animal) remains after cremation. countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — The urn containing his ashes was eventually removed to a closet.
  9. The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English. countable,uncountable
  10. Mortal remains in general. archaic,countable,in-plural,uncountable
    — Napoleon’s ashes are not yet extinguished, and we’re breathing in their sparks.
  11. What remains after a catastrophe. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — Now, it's Haiti that needs help to rebuild and rise from the ashes [of an earthquake].
  12. A gray color, similar to that of the remains of a fire. countable,uncountable
  13. The resultant remaining more stable patterns that emerge from the evolution of a soup or a similarly random pattern. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing. ambitransitive
    — 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 […]
  2. To hit the end off (a burning cigar or cigarette). Australia,ambitransitive
    — "Nonsense," Mrs. Gardiner challenged, ashing her cigarette.
  3. To mark (someone) with an ashen cross on the forehead to observe Ash Wednesday. transitive
  4. To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes. obsolete
    — 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, […]
副词 adv.
  1. Abbreviation of as hell or as heck. Internet,abbreviation,alt-of,not-comparable

词形变化

ashes plural ashes present,singular,third-person ashing participle,present ashed participle,past ashed past ashes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
acid-ash ashbin ash blond ash-blond ash blonde ash-blonde ash bread ash cake ashcake ashcan ash cash ash-colored ash-coloured ashdump ashen ashery ashfall ashfield ashflow ash gourd ash gray ash grey ash-heap ash-heap-cake ash heap of history ashhole ash-hole ash-hopper ashless ashlike ashman Ash Monday ash pan ashpan ashpit ash pit ash pumpkin ash-red ash stand ash-throated crake ashtray Ash Wednesday ashweed ashy bone ash deash flash the ash fly ash lime-ash pearl ash pearl-ash pearlash potash satinash soda ash the Ashes ultramarine ash volcanic ash Afghan ash American ash Arizona ash Ash Fork ash-leaf maple ash-leaved maple Biltmore ash black ash blue ash blueberry ash Bunge's ash California ash Cape ash Carolina ash Caucasian ash Chihuahua ash Chinese ash Korean ash Claret ash common ash crow's ash European ash flowering ash fragrant ash Goodding's ash green ash Gregg's ash Griffith's ash Himalayan manna ash Illawarra ash Japanese ash Japanese flowering ash Korean ash Lowell ash Manchurian ash manna ash Mexican ash Modesto ash Moreton Bay ash mountain ash narrow-leafed ash narrow-leaf ash Oregon ash Pallis' ash poison ash prickly ash pumpkin ash raywood ash red ash Shamel ash singleleaf ash Späth's ash stinking ash Texas ash tropical ash two-petal ash velvet ash water ash weeping ash white ash yellow ash

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-der.?
Proto-Germanic *askǭ
Proto-West Germanic *askā
Old English æsce
Middle English asshe
English ash
From Middle English aisshe, asche, ash, asshe, axe, eshe, esk, from Old English acse, asċe, axe, axse, æsċe, from Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ (“ash”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- (“to be dry; to burn; hearth; ashes”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola ashen, oaskean (“ashes”), Saterland Frisian Ääske (“ash”), West Frisian jiske (“ash”), Alemannic German Äsche (“ash”), Cimbrian èssa (“ash”), Dutch as, asch (“ash”), German Asche (“ash”), Limburgish Aïsch, Aïsche, Äsch (“ash; grayling”), Luxembourgish Äsch (“ash”), Vilamovian oś, oš (“ash”), Yiddish אַש (ash, “ash”), Danish aske (“ash”), Faroese øska (“ash, ashes”), Icelandic and Swedish aska (“ash”), Norwegian Bokmål aske (“ash”), Norwegian Nynorsk oske (“ash”), Gothic 𐌰𐌶𐌲𐍉 (azgō, “ash; cinder”); Breton and Cornish ster (“stars”), Welsh sêr (“stars”), Latin āreō (“to be dry or parched; to be dried up or withered”), Greek αστέρας (astéras), αστέρι (astéri), άστρο (ástro, “star”), Armenian աստուճ (astuč), աշտուճ (aštuč, “dry (of bread)”), Avestan 𐬯𐬙𐬀𐬭 (star, “star”), Baluchi استار (astár / istár), استال (istál, “star”), Central Kurdish ئەستێرە (estêre, “star”), Northern Kurdish stêr (“star”), Ossetian стъалы (st’aly, “star”), Pashto ستوری (stóray, “star”), Persian سِتَارَه (setāra / sitâre, “star; destiny, fate; spark”), Hittite 𒄩𒀸𒊭𒀀𒀸 (ḫa-aš-ša-a-aš, “fireplace, hearth”), Ashkun istã́ (“star”), Tocharian A āştär (“pure”), Tocharian B astare (“pure”), Sanskrit आस (āsa, “ashes; dust”).
The rare plural axen is from Middle English axen, axnen, from Old English axan, asċan (“ashes”) (plural of Old English axe, æsċe (“ash”)).
词源 2
From Middle English aissh, asch, asche, ashe, assche, assh, asshe, esch, haish, from Old English æsċ, from Proto-West Germanic *ask, from Proto-Germanic *askaz (“ash”), from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃s- (“ash”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots aish (“ash”), North Frisian eskebuum (“ash”), West Frisian esk (“ash”), Cimbrian ess (“ash”), Dutch es (“ash”), German Esche (“ash”), Limburgish èsj (“ash”), Luxembourgish Esch (“ash”), Yiddish אַשבוים (ashboym, “ash”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish ask (“ash”), Faroese ask, askur (“ash”), Icelandic askur (“ash”); also Welsh onn, ynn (“ash”), Latin ornus (“rowan”), Greek οξιά (oxiá, “beech; wood”), Albanian ah (“beech”), Latgalian ūss (“ash”), Latvian osis (“ash”), Lithuanian uosis (“ash”), Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian я́сень (jásenʹ, “ash”), Bulgarian я́сен (jásen, “ash”), Czech jasan (“ash”), Macedonian јасен (jasen, “ash”), Polish jasion, jesion (“ash”), Serbo-Croatian ја̏се̄н, jȁsēn (“ash”), Slovak jaseň (“ash”), Slovene jésen (“ash”), Armenian հացի (hacʻi, “ash”).
词源 3
Transliteration of Persian آش.
词源 4
Abbreviation.
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