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