dross
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- drosse (obsolete)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English drosse, dros, from Old English drōs, an apocopated variant of Old English drōsna, drōsne (“a ground, sediment, lees, dregs, dirt, ear wax”), from Proto-Germanic *drōhsnōn ("yeast, sediment"; compare Proto-Germanic *dragjō (“yeast”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrak-, *dʰrag- (“sediment, yeast”). Cognate with Scots dros, drose, drosse (“small particles, fragments, dross”), Middle Dutch droes (“dregs”), Dutch droesem (“dregs”), German Drusen (“lees, dregs”), Latin fracēs (“grounds or dregs of oil”). Related also to drast, dregs.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɒs
Noun[edit]
dross (plural drosses)
- Waste or impure matter
- Worthless or trivial matter
- Residue that forms on the surface of a metal from oxidation
- The impurities in metal
- A waste product from working with metal
Translations[edit]
Quotations[edit]
- For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.
Derived terms[edit]
Verb[edit]
dross (third-person singular simple present drosses, present participle drossing, simple past and past participle drossed)
- (transitive) To remove dross from.
Anagrams[edit]
Latvian[edit]
Adjective[edit]
dross (def. drosais, comp. drosāks, sup. visdrosākais; adv. drosi)
Declension[edit]
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| nominative (nominatīvs) | dross | drosi | drosa | drosas | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | drosu | drosus | drosu | drosas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | drosa | drosu | drosas | drosu | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | drosam | drosiem | drosai | drosām | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | drosu | drosiem | drosu | drosām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | drosā | drosos | drosā | drosās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
