ash
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (3)ashes
- the residue that remains when something is burnedType of residueKinds bone ash, fly ash
- any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus FraxinusSynonyms: ash treeType of treeKinds manna ash, blue ash, Arizona ash, flowering ash, red ash, pumpkin ash, European ash, swamp ash, Oregon ash, black ash +2 moreExamples Yggdrasil, YgdrasilParts ash-keyMember of Fraxinus, genus Fraxinus
- strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball batsType of woodSubstance of ash tree
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Noun solid remains of a fire
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- ceniza
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- kül
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- пе́пел pépel
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- رَمَاد ramād
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- 灰 huī
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- אַש ash
Noun ash wood
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. asch, esh, AS. æsc; akin to OHG. asc, Sw. & Dan. ask, Icel. askr, D. esch, G. esche.
1. Botany A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (Fraxinus Americana).
Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum Americanum) and Poison ash (Rhus venenata) are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the true ashes in their foliage. — Mountain ash. See Roman tree, and under Mountain.
2. The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.
Ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound term; as, ash bud, ash wood, ash tree, etc.
sing. of Ashes.
☞ Ash is rarely used in the singular except in connection with chemical or geological products; as, soda ash, coal which yields a red ash, etc., or as a qualifying or combining word; as, ash bin, ash heap, ash hole, ash pan, ash pit, ash-grey, ash-colored, pearlash, potash.
Bone ash, burnt powered; bone earth. — Volcanic ash. See under Ashes.
To strew or sprinkle with ashes. James Howell
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<tool> A Bourne Shell clone by Kenneth Almquist comparable with Bash.
Ash runs under 386BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux.
FTP Linux version (ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux/ports/ash-linux-0.1.tar.gz).
(1995-07-20)