ash
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- Rhymes: -æʃ
Etymology 1
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From Middle English asshe, from Old English æsce, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ (compare West Frisian jiske, Dutch as, Low German Asch, German Asche, Danish aske, Swedish aska, Norwegian ask), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-; see it for cognates.
The rare plural axen is from Middle English axen, axnen, from Old English axan, asċan (“ashes”) (plural of Old English axe, æsċe (“ash”)).
Noun
ash (countable and uncountable, plural ashes)
- The solid remains of a fire.
- The audience was more captivated by the growing ash at the end of his cigarette than by his words.
- Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.
- Ashes from the fire floated over the street.
- Ash from the fire floated over the street.
- (chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
- Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
- (in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
- The urn containing his ashes was eventually removed to a closet.
- (figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.
- 2010 May 6, Jean-Claude Laguerre, “Haiti Will Rise From the Ashes”, in The Epoch Times:
- Now, it's Haiti that needs help to rebuild and rise from the ashes [of an earthquake].
- A gray colour, like that of ash.
- ash:
Synonyms
- (cremation remains): cremains
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Verb
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- (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.
- 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
- (intransitive) To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.
- (transitive) To hit the end off (a burning cigar or cigarette).
- (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, […]
- 1847, H., Ashes on Corn.---An Experiment, published in the Genesee Farmer, volume 8, page 281
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Etymology 2
From Middle English asshe, from Old English æsc, from Proto-Germanic *askaz, *askiz (compare West Frisian esk, Dutch es, German Esche, Danish/Norwegian/Swedish ask), from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃s- (compare Welsh onnen, Latin ornus (“wild mountain ash”), Lithuanian úosis, Russian я́сень (jásenʹ), Albanian ah (“beech”), Ancient Greek ὀξύα (oxúa, “beech”), Old Armenian հացի (hacʻi)).
Noun
ash (countable and uncountable, plural ashes)
- (countable, uncountable) A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus.
- The ash trees are dying off due to emerald ash borer.
- The woods planted in ash will see a different mix of species.
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English.
Synonyms
- (tree): ash tree
Derived terms
- Afghan ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
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- black ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
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- California ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Carolina ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Caucasian ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Chihuahua ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Chinese ash Korean ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Claret ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- common ash (Fraxinus excelsior)
- European ash (Fraxinus excelsior)
- flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus)
- fragrant ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Goodding's ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- green ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Gregg's ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Griffith's ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Himalayan manna ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Japanese ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Japanese flowering ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Korean ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Lowell ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Manchurian ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- manna ash (Fraxinus ornus)
- Mexican ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- mountain ash
- narrow-leafed ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Oregon ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Pallis' ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- poison ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- prickly ash (Zanthoxylum)
- pumpkin ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- raywood ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Shamel ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- singleleaf ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Späth's ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- Texas ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- tropical ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- two-petal ash (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
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See also
References
Fraxinus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Fraxinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Fraxinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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Noun
ash
- Alternative form of asshe (“burnt matter”)
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