Definition of Dust

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Definition of Dust

Dust

Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.

A single particle of earth or other matter.

The earth, as the resting place of the dead.

The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.

Figuratively, a worthless thing.

Figuratively, a low or mean condition.

Gold dust

Coined money; cash.

To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.

To sprinkle with dust.

To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.

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Dust Quotations

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.
Emily Dickinson

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
Salvador Dali

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T. S. Eliot

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
Lord Byron

Dust Translations

dust in Dutch is stof
dust in German is staub, abstauben, Staub
dust in Hungarian is por, steksz
dust in Italian is polvere
dust in Latin is pulvis
dust in Spanish is polvo, tamo
dust in Swedish is stoft, damm

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