dross
English
Alternative forms
- drosse (obsolete)
Etymology
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 *drēcg + -sn, from Proto-Germanic *drōhsnǭ, from *dragjō + *-snō, ("yeast, sediment"; compare *dragjō (“yeast”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“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
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- Rhymes: -ɒs, -ɔːs
- Rhymes: -ɔːs
Noun
dross (usually uncountable, plural drosses)
- Waste or impure matter.
- Residue that forms on the surface of a metal from oxidation.
- The impurities in metal.
- A waste product from working with metal.
- 2008, Narendra B. Dahotre, Sandip Harimkar, Laser Fabrication and Machining of Materials, Springer Science & Business Media (→ISBN), page 176
- Dross is related with the incomplete expulsion of the melt from the bottom of the kerf. For precision applications where the clean cutting edges are important the formation of dross at the bottom of the cutting kerf must be controlled. This requires deep understanding of the mechanisms of dross formation and the various materials and laser-cutting parameters which potentially control the formation of dross. For example, the highly cleaned (dross-free) cutting edges can be obtained in […]
- 2008, André Ditze, Christiane Scharf, Recycling of Magnesium, Ditze & Scharf (→ISBN), page 25
- One of the main problems with recycling and melting magnesium is the presence of particles in the melt which lead to the formation of dross and sludge. To be more precise, the necessary removal of dross and sludge greatly increase the costs of the facility. And, material is lost.
- 2008, Narendra B. Dahotre, Sandip Harimkar, Laser Fabrication and Machining of Materials, Springer Science & Business Media (→ISBN), page 176
- (figurative) Worthless or trivial matter.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:dross.
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
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- (transitive) To remove dross from.
Anagrams
Latvian
Adjective
dross (definite drosais, comparative drosāks, superlative visdrosākais, adverb drosi)
Declension
masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
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singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
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) | — | — | — | — | |||||
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- Old English terms suffixed with -sn
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Proto-Germanic terms suffixed with *-snō
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɒs
- Rhymes:English/ɔːs
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- English transitive verbs
- Latvian lemmas
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