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Definition dust

Etymology

From Middle English dust, doust, from Old English d?st (“dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder”), from the fusion of Proto-Germanic *dust? (“dust”) and *dunst? (“mist, dust, evaporation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewh?- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Cognate with Scots dust, dist (“dust”), Dutch duist (“pollen, dust”) and dons (“down, fuzz”), German Dust (“dust”) and Dunst (“haze”), Swedish dust (“dust”), Icelandic dust (“dust”), Latin f?mus (“smoke, steam”). Also related to Swedish dun (“down, fluff”), Icelandic dúnn (“down, fluff”). See down.

Noun

dust (countable and uncountable, plural dusts)

1. (uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
2. (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
3. (obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.
4. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
5. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
6. (figuratively) Something worthless.
7. (figuratively) A low or mean condition.
8. (slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
9. (colloquial) A disturbance or uproar.
10. (mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.

Verb

dust (third-person singular simple present dusts, present participle dusting, simple past and past participle dusted)

1. (transitive) To remove dust from.
2. (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
3. (intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
4. (transitive) To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
5. (chiefly US slang) To leave; to rush off.
6. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.

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