Why is there sawdust on the floor?
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Sawdust
//ˈsɔːˌdʌst//
Synonyms for "sawdust" (79 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (24)
Related words (39)
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113 translations across 79 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- tallash noun (dust created by sawing)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- παράπρισμα noun (dust created by sawing)
Arabic
2 entries- نشارة noun (dust created by sawing)
- نُشَارَة noun (dust created by sawing)
Aramaic
2 entries- ܒܪܘܬܐ noun (dust created by sawing)
- ܢܣܪܬܐ noun (dust created by sawing)
Armenian
1 entries- թեփ noun (dust created by sawing)
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
1 entries- ܢܣܵܪܬܵܐ noun (dust created by sawing)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- kəpək noun (dust created by sawing)
Basque
1 entries- zerrauts noun (dust created by sawing)
Belarusian
2 entries- апі́лкі noun (dust created by sawing)
- пілаві́нне noun (dust created by sawing)
Breton
1 entries- brenn-heskenn noun (dust created by sawing)
Bulgarian
2 entries- дъ́рвени стърготи́ни noun (dust created by sawing)
- стърготи́ни noun (dust created by sawing)
Burmese
1 entries- လွှစာ noun (dust created by sawing)
Catalan
1 entries- serradures noun (dust created by sawing)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎤᏍᎪᎬ noun (dust created by sawing)
Chinese
1 entries- 鋸屑 /锯屑 noun (dust created by sawing)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 木屑 noun (dust created by sawing)
- 鋸屑 /锯屑 noun (dust created by sawing)
- 鋸末 /锯末 noun (dust created by sawing)
Czech
1 entries- piliny noun (dust created by sawing)
Danish
1 entries- savsmuld noun (dust created by sawing)
Dutch
1 entries- zaagsel noun (dust created by sawing)
Egyptian
1 entries- w-s-t noun (dust created by sawing)
Esperanto
1 entries- segaĵo noun (dust created by sawing)
Estonian
1 entries- saepuru noun (dust created by sawing)
Faroese
1 entries- saguspønir noun (dust created by sawing)
Finnish
1 entries- sahanpuru noun (dust created by sawing)
French
1 entries- sciure noun (dust created by sawing)
Friulian
1 entries- seadure noun (dust created by sawing)
Galician
1 entries- serraduras noun (dust created by sawing)
Georgian
1 entries- ნახერხი noun (dust created by sawing)
German
2 entries- Sägemehl noun (dust created by sawing)
- Sägespäne noun (dust created by sawing)
Greek
2 entries- πριονίδι noun (dust created by sawing)
- ροκανίδι noun (dust created by sawing)
Hawaiian
1 entries- oka lāʻau noun (dust created by sawing)
Hebrew
2 entries- נְסֹרֶת noun (dust created by sawing)
- נסורת noun (dust created by sawing)
Hindi
2 entries- चूरा noun (dust created by sawing)
- बुरादा noun (dust created by sawing)
Hungarian
1 entries- fűrészpor noun (dust created by sawing)
Icelandic
1 entries- sag noun (dust created by sawing)
Ido
1 entries- seg-pulvero noun (dust created by sawing)
Indonesian
1 entries- serbuk gergaji noun (dust created by sawing)
Ingrian
1 entries- opilka noun (dust created by sawing)
Irish
1 entries- min sáibh noun (dust created by sawing)
Italian
1 entries- segatura noun (dust created by sawing)
Japanese
2 entries- 大鋸屑 noun (dust created by sawing)
- 木屑 noun (dust created by sawing)
Kazakh
2 entries- жоңқа noun (dust created by sawing)
- үгінді noun (dust created by sawing)
Khmer
1 entries- អាចម៍រណារ noun (dust created by sawing)
Korean
1 entries- 톱밥 noun (dust created by sawing)
Lao
1 entries- ຂີ້ເລື່ອຍ noun (dust created by sawing)
Latin
3 entries- lānūgō noun (dust created by sawing)
- scobis noun (dust created by sawing)
- serrāgō noun (dust created by sawing)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- drobna rěz noun (dust created by sawing)
Macedonian
1 entries- дрвесина noun (dust created by sawing)
Malagasy
1 entries- tain-tsofa noun (dust created by sawing)
Mongolian
2 entries- модны үртэс noun (dust created by sawing)
- ᠮᠣᠳᠤᠨ ᠤ ᠦᠷᠦᠳᠡᠰᠦ noun (dust created by sawing)
Māori
1 entries- kotakota noun (dust created by sawing)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- sagflis noun (dust created by sawing)
- sagmugg noun (dust created by sawing)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sagflis noun (dust created by sawing)
Occitan
1 entries- ressum noun (dust created by sawing)
Pashto
1 entries- بوره noun (dust created by sawing)
Persian
1 entries- خاکاره noun (dust created by sawing)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Soagespoon noun (dust created by sawing)
Polish
1 entries- trociny noun (dust created by sawing)
Portuguese
1 entries- serragem noun (dust created by sawing)
Romanian
1 entries- rumeguș noun (dust created by sawing)
Romansch
1 entries- resgim noun (dust created by sawing)
Russian
2 entries- древе́сная мука́ noun (dust created by sawing)
- опи́лки noun (dust created by sawing)
Slovak
1 entries- piliny noun (dust created by sawing)
Slovene
2 entries- žaganje noun (dust created by sawing)
- žagovina noun (dust created by sawing)
Spanish
3 entries- aserraduras noun (dust created by sawing)
- aserrín noun (dust created by sawing)
- serrín noun (dust created by sawing)
Swahili
1 entries- maramba noun (dust created by sawing)
Swedish
2 entries- spån noun (dust created by sawing)
- sågspån noun (dust created by sawing)
Tagalog
2 entries- kusot noun (dust created by sawing)
- piyaos noun (dust created by sawing)
Tajik
2 entries- аррамайда noun (dust created by sawing)
- хокарра noun (dust created by sawing)
Thai
1 entries- ขี้เลื่อย noun (dust created by sawing)
Turkish
1 entries- talaş noun (dust created by sawing)
Ukrainian
2 entries- пилови́ння noun (dust created by sawing)
- ти́рса noun (dust created by sawing)
Unami
1 entries- kwshikshakokàn noun (dust created by sawing)
Urdu
1 entries- چُورَہ noun (dust created by sawing)
Uzbek
2 entries- qipiq noun (dust created by sawing)
- qirindi noun (dust created by sawing)
Vietnamese
1 entries- mùn cưa noun (dust created by sawing)
Walloon
2 entries- soeyure noun (dust created by sawing)
- soyoere noun (dust created by sawing)
Welsh
2 entries- blawd llif noun (dust created by sawing)
- llwch llif noun (dust created by sawing)
Yiddish
4 entries- געזעגעכץ noun (dust created by sawing)
- האָלצזעגעכץ noun (dust created by sawing)
- זעגעכץ noun (dust created by sawing)
- זעגשטויב noun (dust created by sawing)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Tom filled the holes with sawdust.
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The floor is covered in sawdust.
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Tom's head is full of sawdust.
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