ash
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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”)).
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.
- (archaic, in the plural) Mortal remains in general.
- Napoleon’s ashes are not yet extinguished, and we’re breathing in their sparks.
- (figuratively) The matter that 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 color, similar to ash.
- ash:
Synonyms
- (cremation remains): cremains
Derived terms
- ashbin
- ash blond
- ash-blond
- ash blonde
- ash-blonde
- ash bread
- ash cake
- ashcake
- ashcan
- ash cash
- ash-colored
- ash-coloured
- ashdump
- ashen
- ashery
- ashfall
- ashfield
- ashflow
- ash gourd
- ash gray
- ash grey
- ash-heap
- ash-heap-cake
- ash heap of history
- ash-hole
- ashhole
- ash-hopper
- ashless
- ashlike
- ashman
- Ash Monday
- ashpan
- ash pan
- ash pit
- ashpit
- ash pumpkin
- ash stand
- ash-throated crake
- ashtray
- Ash Wednesday
- ashweed
- ashy
- asshole
- bone ash
- deash
- flash the ash
- fly ash
- lime-ash
- pearl ash
- pearl-ash
- pearlash
- potash
- satinash
- soda ash
- the Ashes
- ultramarine ash
- volcanic ash
Related terms
Translations
solid remains of a fire
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Verb
ash (third-person singular simple present ashes, present participle ashing, simple past and past participle ashed)
- (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).
- 1936, F.J. Thwaites, The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards Publishing, published 1940, page 62:
- "Nonsense," Mrs. Gardiner challenged, ashing her cigarette.
- 1961, Kenneth Cook, Wake in Fright, published 1988, page ii. 52:
- He realized that he was standing staring at her and he sat down quickly, making a business of ashing his cigarette.
- 1978, C.J. Koch, The Year of Living Dangerously, published 1986, page 35:
- Hamilton ashed his cigar, and studied the end of it for some moments without speaking.
- 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 242:
- ‘He’s right, you know,’ said Archie earnestly, ashing a fag in an empty curry bowl.
- (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
Translations
to reduce to a residue of ash
to hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette
Etymology 2
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)).
Noun
ash (countable and uncountable, plural ashes)
- (countable, uncountable) A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus.
- Synonym: ash tree
- 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.
Derived terms
Species of tree
- Afghan ash (Fraxinus xanthoxyloides)
- American ash (Fraxinus americana)
- Arizona ash (Fraxinus velutina)
- Ash Fork
- ash-leaf maple, ash-leaved maple (Acer negundo)
- black ash (Fraxinus nigra)
- blue ash (Fraxinus quadrangulata)
- Bunge's ash (Fraxinus bungeana)
- California ash (Fraxinus dipetala)
- Cape ash (Ekebergia capensis)
- Carolina ash (Fraxinus caroliniana)
- Caucasian ash (Fraxinus angustifolia subsp. oxycarpa)
- Chihuahua ash (Fraxinus papillosa)
- Chinese ash Korean ash (Fraxinus chinensis)
- Claret ash (Fraxinus angustifolia subsp. oxycarpa)
- common ash (Fraxinus excelsior)
- crow's ash (Flindersia australis)
- European ash (Fraxinus excelsior)
- flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus)
- fragrant ash (Fraxinus cuspidata)
- Goodding's ash (Fraxinus gooddingii)
- green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
- Gregg's ash (Fraxinus greggii)
- Griffith's ash (Fraxinus griffithii)
- Himalayan manna ash (Fraxinus floribunda)
- Japanese ash (Fraxinus japonica)
- Japanese flowering ash (Fraxinus sieboldiana)
- Korean ash (Fraxinus chinensis)
- Lowell ash (Fraxinus lowellii)
- Manchurian ash (Fraxinus mandschurica)
- manna ash (Fraxinus ornus)
- Mexican ash (Fraxinus berlandieriana)
- Modesto ash (Fraxinus velutina)
- Moreton Bay ash
- mountain ash, Mountain Ash
- narrow-leafed ash (Fraxinus angustifolia)
- Oregon ash (Fraxinus latifolia)
- Pallis' ash (Fraxinus pallisiae)
- poison ash (Comocladia dodonaea)
- prickly ash (Zanthoxylum)
- pumpkin ash (Fraxinus profunda)
- raywood ash (Fraxinus angustifolia subsp. oxycarpa)
- red ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica)
- red ash (Trichilia dregeana)
- Shamel ash (Fraxinus uhdei)
- singleleaf ash (Fraxinus anomala)
- Späth's ash (Fraxinus spaethiana)
- Texas ash (Fraxinus texensis)
- tropical ash (Fraxinus uhdei)
- two-petal ash (Fraxinus dipetala)
- velvet ash (Fraxinus velutina)
- weeping ash (Fraxinus excelsior)
- white ash (Fraxinus americana)
Other terms derived from "ash" (the tree)
Translations
tree — see ash tree
wood
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ae ligature
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Etymology 3
Transliteration of Persian آش; see the main entry.
Noun
ash (uncountable)
- Alternative form of aush
Etymology 4
Adverb
ash (not comparable)
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of as hell and as heck.
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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