Definition von „ash“ auf Englisch

noun

1. Solid remains of a fire.

   • The audience was more captivated by the growing ash at the end of his cigarette than by his words.
   • Ash from a fireplace can restore minerals to your garden's soil.
   • Ashes from the fire floated over the street.
   • Ash from the fire floated over the street.
   • The family collected the ashes after burning the body.

2. (chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.

3. Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.

4. (in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.

   • The urn containing his ashes was eventually removed to a closet.

5. (archaic, in the plural) Mortal remains in general.

   • Napoleon’s ashes are not yet extinguished, and we’re breathing in their sparks.

6. (figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.

7. A gray color, similar to that of the remains of a fire.

8. (cellular automata) The resultant remaining more stable patterns that emerge from the evolution of a soup or a similarly random pattern.

verb

1. (ambitransitive, chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.

   • I dried the extracted leather very slowly on the steam bath […] until the substance was dry enough to ash. […] I think that the discrepancy in the percentages of "total ash" by method No. 2 and No. 6 is due to this excessive heat required to ash the leather […]
   • The inorganic material left after ashing lung tissue specimens not only contains inhaled particles but also very large quantities of inorganic residue derived from the tissue itself.
   • Ash and silica contents of the plant material were determined by classical gravimetric techniques. Tissue samples were ashed in platinum crucibles at about 500 °C, and the ash was treated repeatedly with 6 N hydrochloric acid to remove other mineral impurities.
   • A 10-g food sample was dried, then ashed, and analyzed for salt (NaCl) content by the Mohr titration method (AgNO₃ + Cl → AgCl). The weight of the dried sample was 2g, and the ashed sample weight was 0.5g.

2. (Australia, ambitransitive) To hit the end off (a burning cigar or cigarette).

3. (transitive, Christianity, chiefly passive voice) To mark (someone) with an ashen cross on the forehead to observe Ash Wednesday.

4. (obsolete, chiefly passive voice) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.

   • Last spring, after I planted, I took what ashes I have saved during the last year, and put on my corn […] . On harvesting I cut up the two rows which were not ashed (or twenty rods of them,) and set them apart from the others in stouts; and then I cut up two rows of the same length, on each side, which had been ashed, […]