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Ash

//æʃ// adv, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    Abbreviation of as hell or as heck. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Egyptian god of oases. Egyptian, countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    Oisc, also spelled Æsc or Ash, an Anglo-Saxon king of Kent countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near ash trees. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A unisex given name transferred from the surname. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A diminutive of the unisex given names Ashley or Ashleigh. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A diminutive of the female given names Ashlie, Ashlee, Ashly, or Ashanti. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A place name:; A place in England:; A civil parish in South Derbyshire district, Derbyshire. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A place name:; A place in England:; A hamlet in Stoke Fleming parish, South Hams district, Devon (OS grid ref SX8349). countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A place name:; A place in England:; A hamlet in Stourpaine parish, Dorset (OS grid ref ST8610). countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    A place name:; A place in England:; A village and civil parish in Dover district, Kent (OS grid ref TR2858). countable, uncountable
  6. 11
    A place name:; A place in England:; A small village in Ash-cum-Ridley parish, Sevenoaks district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ6064). countable, uncountable
  7. 12
    A place name:; A place in England:; A village and civil parish in Somerset, previously in South Somerset district (OS grid ref ST4720). countable, uncountable
  8. 13
    A place name:; A place in England:; A hamlet in Thornfalcon parish, Somerset, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST2822). countable, uncountable
  9. 14
    A place name:; A place in England:; A town and civil parish in Guildford borough, Surrey, near Aldershot (OS grid ref SU8950). countable, uncountable
  10. 15
    A place name:; A place in the United States:; A township in Monroe County, Michigan. countable, uncountable
  11. 16
    A place name:; A place in the United States:; A township in Barry County, Missouri. countable, uncountable
  12. 17
    A place name:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Monroe County, Missouri. countable, uncountable
  13. 18
    A place name:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Brunswick County, North Carolina. countable, uncountable
  14. 19
    A place name:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Oregon. countable, uncountable
  15. 20
    A place name:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas. countable, uncountable
  16. 21
    A place name:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Mason County, West Virginia. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 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. 2
    A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus. countable, uncountable

    "The ash trees are dying off due to emerald ash borer."

  3. 3
    Alternative form of aush. alt-of, alternative, uncountable
  4. 4
    any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus wordnet
  5. 5
    The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    Any tree of certain species of other genera. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats wordnet
  3. 8
    Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    The wood of this tree. uncountable
  5. 10
    the residue that remains when something is burned wordnet
  6. 11
    Human (or animal) remains after cremation. countable, in-plural, uncountable

    "The urn containing his ashes was eventually removed to a closet."

  7. 12
    The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English. countable, uncountable
  8. 13
    Mortal remains in general. archaic, countable, in-plural, uncountable

    "Napoleon’s ashes are not yet extinguished, and we’re breathing in their sparks."

  9. 14
    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]."

  10. 15
    A gray color, similar to that of the remains of a fire. countable, uncountable
  11. 16
    The resultant remaining more stable patterns that emerge from the evolution of a soup or a similarly random pattern. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 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. 2
    convert into ashes wordnet
  3. 3
    To hit the end off (a burning cigar or cigarette). Australia, ambitransitive

    ""Nonsense," Mrs. Gardiner challenged, ashing her cigarette."

  4. 4
    To mark (someone) with an ashen cross on the forehead to observe Ash Wednesday. transitive
  5. 5
    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, […]"

Etymology

Etymology 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 asshe, from Old English æsċe, from Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ (compare West Frisian jiske, Dutch as, Low German Asch, German Asche, Danish aske, Swedish aska, Norwegian aske), 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”)).

Etymology 2

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 asshe, from Old English æsċe, from Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ (compare West Frisian jiske, Dutch as, Low German Asch, German Asche, Danish aske, Swedish aska, Norwegian aske), 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”)).

Etymology 3

From Middle English asshe, from Old English æsċ, 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)).

Etymology 4

Transliteration of Persian آش.

Etymology 5

Abbreviation.

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