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How to pronounce “dust”
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Pronunciation guide for dust
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of dust with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Losing the Nobel Prize
is this very humble substance called dust.
- Definition summary
- Fine particles.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce dust
Losing the Nobel Prize
is this very humble substance called dust.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “dust”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- Fine particles.
- (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
- (countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
- (poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
- The earth as the resting place of the dead.
- The earthly remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- (figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
- (figurative) Something worthless.
- (figurative) A low or mean condition.
- (British, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
- (slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
- (countable) A cloud of dust.
- (countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
- (countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
- (countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
- (cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To remove dust from.
- (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
- (transitive, archaic) To make dusty, to soil with dust.
- (intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
- (transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
- (transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
- (intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
- (transitive, obsolete) To drink up quickly; to toss off.
- (transitive, obsolete) To reduce to a fine powder; to pulverize, to levigate.
- (transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
- (transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
- (transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
- (cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.
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