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Asche — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ash noun The gray powdery residue left after something has burned.
  • cinder noun A small piece of partly burnt coal, wood, or other material left after combustion.
  • clay noun A fine-grained, sticky earth that becomes pliable when wet and hardens when fired or dried — used for pottery, bricks, and sculpture.
  • fallout noun Radioactive dust and debris that settles after a nuclear explosion.

Senses

Asche is used for these senses in English:

  • ash A gray color, similar to that of the remains of a fire.
  • cinder Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.
  • clay (tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
  • fallout The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.
  • grayling Any freshwater fish of the genus Thymallus or specifically Thymallus thymallus, of the salmon family, having a large dorsal fin.

ash — full definition

  1. noun The gray powdery residue left after something has burned.
  2. noun A hardwood tree of the genus Fraxinus, or its pale, tough timber.
  3. noun The remains of a cremated body (usually plural, "ashes").

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