Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ASH
ASH
Definitions of ASH
- The solid remains of a fire.
- Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
- A gray colour, like that of ash.
- The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English.
- (Egyptian mythology) The Egyptian god of oases.
- Oisc, also spelled Æsc or Ash, an Anglo-Saxon king of Kent
- (chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
- (in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
- (archaic, in the plural) Mortal remains in general.
- (figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.
- (chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.
- (intransitive) To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.
- (transitive) To hit the end off (a burning cigar or cigarette).
- (obsolete, mostly used in the passive) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.
- (countable, uncountable) A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus.
- (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
- A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near ash trees.
- A unisex given name from surnames.
- A unisex given name.
- A female given name.
- A place name:
Number of letters
3
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using ASH in a Sentence
- Specifically, ash refers to all non-aqueous, non-gaseous residues that remain after something burns.
- He is known best for his role as Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead horror series, beginning with the short movie Within the Woods (1978).
- Well-known or economically important members of this order include lavender, lilac, olive, jasmine, the ash tree, teak, snapdragon, sesame, psyllium, garden sage, and a number of table herbs such as mint, basil, and rosemary.
- The Magic Lantern, a 1990 book by Timothy Garton Ash recounting the fall of communism throughout Eastern Europe.
- The tree and its fruit give their name to the Oleaceae plant family, which also includes species such as lilac, jasmine, forsythia, and the true ash tree.
- Being the Lord's Day before the start of the Lenten season, it is known for meat consumption as people feast before starting their fast on Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent.
- In 2009, the Samoa-American Samoa (SAS) Cable provided inter-island communication, as well as enabling users in Samoa to access the ASH cable capacity and connect to the global networks.
- A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
- In both sources, Yggdrasil is an immense ash tree that is central to the cosmos and considered very holy.
- A major eruption of the Mount Merapi volcano on Java causes devastation throughout the centre of the island (which it covers with volcanic ash) and to the Javanese Hindu Mataram Kingdom.
- Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous, metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade, regional metamorphism.
- Rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered tuff, while rock containing 25% to 75% ash is described as tuffaceous (for example, tuffaceous sandstone).
- Long Valley was formed 760,000 years ago when a very large eruption released hot ash that later cooled to form the Bishop tuff that is common to the area.
- The group consisted of Daniel Ash (guitar, saxophone), Peter Murphy (vocals, occasional instruments), Kevin Haskins (drums) and David J (bass).
- The name derives from pot ash, plant ashes or wood ash soaked in water in a pot, the primary means of manufacturing potash before the Industrial Era.
- Some Fraxinus species are dioecious, having male and female flowers on separate plants but sex in ash is expressed as a continuum between male and female individuals, dominated by unisexual trees.
- Fraxinus quadrangulata, the blue ash, is a species of ash native primarily to the Midwestern United States from Oklahoma to Michigan, as well as the Bluegrass region of Kentucky and the Nashville Basin region of Tennessee.
- Visibility was reduced to near-zero conditions that afternoon, and the ash overloaded the city's wastewater treatment plant.
- In Hesiod's Works and Days, the ash trees, perhaps meaning the Melian nymphs, are said to have been the progenitors of the generation of men belonging to Hesiod's Bronze Age.
- Fraxinus americana, the white ash or American ash, is a fast-growing species of ash tree native to eastern and central North America.
- Notable members include olive, ash, jasmine, and several popular ornamental plants including privet, forsythia, fringetrees, and lilac.
- The Askafroa was thought to be a malicious creature that did much damage, and to appease her, it was necessary to make a sacrifice to her on Ash Wednesday.
- Early settlers did believe they noted an ancient village site in Kinsman, a more contemporary site in Hartford, and several strange stone constructions were noted in the Black Ash Swamp by early Bristol residents- this area now known as the Grand River Preserve.
- Named for the abundant ash trees lining the San Joaquin River, Fresno was founded in 1872 as a railway station of the Central Pacific Railroad before it was incorporated in 1885.
- The county has several environmentally sensitive areas, including Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, the White River Valley, several Great Basin sky islands, and part of Death Valley National Park.
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