dust

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Fine particles.; 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, fiber debris, dead skin cells, etc. uncountable
    — There is so much dust released during the process of laying ballast that the trackside operator wears a full face mask with respirator.
  2. Fine particles.; Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder. uncountable
  3. Fine particles.; Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths. uncountable
    — Astronomers have previously considered that dust produced by the star was obscuring it, causing the steep decline in brightness.
  4. Fine particles.; Disintegration of a solid, like silica. uncountable
  5. Fine particles.; Flour. Australia,dated,slang,uncountable
  6. Fine particles.; A single fine, dry particle of earth or other material; grain of dust. countable,obsolete
    — to touch a dust of England’s ground
  7. The act of cleaning by dusting. countable
    — […]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?
  8. The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself. countable
  9. Earth, ground, soil, sediment. countable,poetic,uncountable
    — But I should turn mine ears and hear The moanings of the homeless sea, ⁠The sound of streams that swift or slow ⁠Draw down Æonian hills, and sow The dust of continents to be; […]
  10. The earth as the resting place of the dead. countable,uncountable
    — For now shall I sleep in the dust.
  11. The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body. countable,uncountable
    — For I will leave my relics in your land, / And you may carve a shrine about my dust, / And burn a fragrant lamp before my bones, / When I am gather’d to the glorious saints.
  12. The substance of the human body or mortal frame. countable,figuratively,uncountable
  13. Something worthless. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust.
  14. A low or mean condition. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — [God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust.
  15. Rubbish, garbage, refuse. UK,colloquial,countable,uncountable
  16. cash; money (in reference to gold dust). countable,dated,slang,uncountable
    — ‘And what do you ask for it?’ ‘Fifteen thousand dollars.’ ‘I’ll take it.’ ‘Then down with the dust.’
  17. A cloud of dust. countable
  18. A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar. countable,figuratively
    — to raise, or kick up, a dust
  19. A fight or row. colloquial,countable
  20. A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure. countable
  21. Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To remove dust from. transitive
    — The cleaning lady needs a stool to dust the cupboard.
  2. To remove dust; to clean by removing dust. intransitive
    — Dusting always makes me cough.
  3. To make dusty, to soil with dust. archaic,transitive
  4. Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth. intransitive,reflexive
  5. To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle. transitive
    — The mother dusted her baby’s bum with talcum powder.
  6. To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust. transitive
  7. To leave quickly; to rush off. US,intransitive,slang
    — He added in a casual tone: ‘The girl can dust. I’d like to talk to you a little, soldier.’
  8. To drink up quickly; to toss off. obsolete,transitive
  9. To reduce to a fine powder; to pulverize, to levigate. obsolete,transitive
    — good Powder differs from bad […]in having more Peter and less Coal; and lastly, in the well dusting of it
  10. To strike, beat, thrash. colloquial,dialectal,transitive
  11. To defeat badly, to thrash. US,slang,transitive
  12. To kill. US,slang,transitive
    — Kyle Reese: You have to be careful because the [Hunter-Killer robots] use infrared. They’re not too bright. John taught us ways to dust them.
  13. To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back. transitive
  14. To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.

词形变化

dusts plural dusts present,singular,third-person dusting participle,present dusted participle,past dusted past

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English dust, doust, from Old English dūst (“dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder”), from the fusion of Proto-Germanic *dustą (“dust”) and *dunstą (“mist, dust, evaporation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“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 fūmus (“smoke, steam”). Also related to Swedish dun (“down, fluff”), Icelandic dúnn (“down, fluff”). See down.
词源 2
From Middle English dust, doust, from Old English dūst (“dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder”), from the fusion of Proto-Germanic *dustą (“dust”) and *dunstą (“mist, dust, evaporation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“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 fūmus (“smoke, steam”). Also related to Swedish dun (“down, fluff”), Icelandic dúnn (“down, fluff”). See down.
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