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The misleading marketing practice of including a minuscule amount of an active ingredient in a product (such as food or cosmetics), insufficient to give any measurable benefit.
adj
Of a place, or person, that consumes more than the average amount of water.
n
The precipitation of ash from a volcanic eruption
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Dust, sand, and other particulate matter from Mongolia, northern China, and Kazakhstan blown over China, Korea, and Japan in the spring.
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material pulverized by attrition
adj
Covered with cinders or ashes.
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rain contaminated by fungi spores, soot, or other particulate matter
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A very fine dust that typically settles in potholes on outback roads. The dust usually settles to make the road look flat, but when a car runs over it it soon sinks.
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(Australia) Fine red dust, found in desert regions of Australia.
v
(intransitive, figuratively, especially of an iceberg) to break off
v
(idiomatic, said of an ornament or an object) To be rarely used.
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(of paint, varnish, or oil) To retract (from a uniform film applied to a damp, oily or nonabsorbent surface) and clump up into small droplets, or form craters.
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The act of firing munitions containing silver iodide at passing clouds to make them more likely to produce rain.
v
(idiomatic) To remain untouched and unused for a long period of time.
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(obsolete) cupel dust; powder used in refining metals, or the gross parts separated by the coppel
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Dust which exists in outer space or has fallen from outer space to Earth.
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(UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
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(idiomatic) Any area, non-dependent of locale, space, or contour, that contains the debris of wreckage, impact, sinking, or other material that once constituted a complete object. Debris fields can be found at the site of air crashes, water vessel sinking, explosions of buildings, collapses, and other events that render a whole entity into components, pieces, or other non-whole items.
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A piece of cleaning equipment used to separate dust or other fine particles from another material.
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A ground-level cloud composed of tiny ice crystals.
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(obsolete, West Country) Dust.
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Coal dust, especially that left after screening or combined with other small, unsaleable bits of coal.
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(uncountable) Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
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(zoology) The process of clenasing the body of parasites by rolling in sand or dust, practiced by certain birds and mammals.
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A geographical region of the American Midwest, extending into Canada, that experienced severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage in the 1930s.
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(US, informal) A small clump of dust, fluff, hair, particles of skin, etc., that tends to accumulate indoors in areas not regularly dusted, such as under heavy furniture.
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(historical) A person hired to remove dust and debris from yards, etc.
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A small atmospheric vortex appearing in clear, dry conditions, made visible by swirling dust picked up from the ground.
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(idiomatic) A dust bunny.
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A place where dust tends to collect.
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(humorous) An ornamental item or objet d'art, viewed as having no other purpose than to collect dust.
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dust cloud that impairs vision.
adj
Full of or covered with dust.
adj
Of a pesticide or herbicide: suitable for crop-dusting.
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(archaic) A ball of grain-dust formed in the intestine of a diseased horse.
v
(of certain birds and mammals) To take a dust bath; to clean one's body, especially, of parasites and excess hair oil, by rolling in sand or dust.
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An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry.
adj
(rare) Alternative form of dust-colored [Of a dull, pale, brownish color.]
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Fine particles deposited by the atmosphere.
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A small grain or particle; mote; speck.
n
A mat intended to collect dust and dirt, usually at the entrance to a building.
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A mote or speck of dust.
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Alternative form of dust-off [The act of removing dust from something.]
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Fallout; the event of small dust particles falling to the ground in sufficient quantities that they cause a problem.
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(nonstandard, rare, chiefly humorous) A dustman or dustwoman.
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A pile of dust and other material, typically composed household refuse.
adj
Powdery and resembling dust.
n
Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.
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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.
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Fine particles, whether or not airborne.
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Land that has been degraded by fires.
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A residue generated in combustion, comprising the fine particles that rise with the flue gases, and used in construction materials.
adj
Backed with polyurethane foam.
n
dust particles suspended in the air, regarded as air pollution
v
To remain unused for a long period of time.
adj
Alternative form of guttate [Shaped like, or resembling drops.]
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A suspension of dry dust etc. in the atmosphere.
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(transitive, informal) To lubricate.
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(obsolete, literary) Pure water.
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A stable emulsion of water and oil that is created by wave action churning the water where an oil spill occurs.
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A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
n
The dried-out product of such a flow.
v
(transitive, mining) To clear waste material out of a mine.
adj
Produced by nebulization; turned from liquid to a spray or mist.
v
(transitive) To grease with oil for cooking.
n
Silk made waterproof by saturation with boiled oil.
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Any solid or liquid in a finely subdivided state, especially when considered as an atmospheric pollutant.
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air pollution caused by photochemical reactions involving hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides and other pollutants, especially in still air over cities.
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(meteorology) Rapid rising of smoke clouds due to heat generated by burning munitions and/or existing convection currents.
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The solidification of droplets of molten material falling against an upward stream of air; used especially to agglomerate ammonium nitrate and urea for use as a fertilizer.
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A film or slimy coating.
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The fine particles of wood created by sanding, typically finer than sawdust.
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The fine particles (dust) of wood created by sawing.
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Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
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A covering of liquid, particularly oil.
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A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
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Any flowable suspension of small particles in liquid.
v
(transitive) To fill (spaces in masonry) with mortar.
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Alternative spelling of smartdust [A hypothetical network of millimeter-sized remote sensors.]
n
An artificial waterfall of smoke for shows.
adv
In the manner of heating in an airtight bag for an extended period of time at relatively low, but tightly controlled temperature.
n
An imaginary magic dust or powder that, when in one's eyes, supposedly causes one to view a person or thing favourably, even though this might not actually be warranted.
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The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.
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Rain that has a pale yellow colour caused by impurities picked up by the falling raindrops.
adj
(of a cave passage) Liable to sump in wet weather.
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(countable, uncountable) Low-lying land that is regularly flooded; especially such land that is drier than a bog or a marsh.
adj
(stone) Having a rough finish by treatment with a blow-torch.
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(colloquial, only pluralized as "vacuums") A vacuum cleaner.
n
An imaginary powder sprinkled by a stage magician as part of making an object disappear.
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