popiół — meaning in English
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English meaning
- ash noun The gray powdery residue left after something has burned.
- calx noun The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation).
Senses
popiół is used for these senses in English:
- ash A gray color, similar to that of the remains of a fire.
- calx (now, chiefly, historical) The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation).
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").
calx — full definition
- noun The substance which remains after a metal or mineral has been thoroughly burnt, once seen as being the essential substance left after the expulsion of phlogiston, but now recognised as being the metallic oxide (or, in some cases, the metal in a state of sublimation).
- noun In the Eton College wall game, an area at the end of the field where a shy can be scored by lifting the ball against the wall with one's foot.