dustとは

発音

• IPA^(key): /dʌst/
• 韻: -ʌst
• Homophone: dost

名詞

dust (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 dusts)

1. (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.
2. (countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
   • 2010, Joan Busfield, Michael Paddon, Thinking About Children: Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England (page 150)

     […] once they start school, I mean you can do a room out one day, the next day it only needs a dust, doesn't it?

3. (obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.
   • Shakespeare

     to touch a dust of England's ground

4. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
   • Bible, Job vii. 21

     I shall sleep in the dust.

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

     And you may carve a shrine about my dust.

6. (figuratively) Something worthless.
   • Shakespeare

     And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust.

7. (figuratively) A low or mean condition.
   • Bible, 1 Sam. ii. 8

     [God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust.

8. (slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
   • 1852, George Colvocoresses, Four Years in a Government Exploring Expedition

     'And what do you ask for it?' 'Fifteen thousand dollars.' 'I'll take it.' 'Then down with the dust.'

9. (mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.

派生語

動詞

dust (三人称単数 現在形 dusts, 現在分詞 dusting, 過去形および過去分詞形 dusted)

1. (transitive) To remove dust from.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

   The cleaning lady needs a stool to dust the cupboard.

2. (intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.

   Dusting always makes me cough.

3. (intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
4. (transitive) To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.

   The mother dusted her baby's bum with talcum powder.

5. (chiefly US slang) To leave; to rush off.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 75:

     He added in a casual tone: ‘The girl can dust. I'd like to talk to you a little, soldier.’

6. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.

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派生語

• dust off
• duster
• dust bunny

参考

• vacuum cleaner

アナグラム

• duts, stud

語源

From Proto-Germanic *dunstą (“dust, vapor”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“vapor, smoke”). Akin to Hindi धुआं (dhu'āṁ, “smoke”), Middle Dutch dost, donst, duust (Dutch dons, duist), Old High German tunst, dunst (German Dunst), Low German dust, Icelandic dust, Norwegian dust, Danish dyst.

発音

• IPA^(key): /duːst/

名詞

dūst n

1. dust; powder; mill dust

語形変化

派生した語

• Middle English: dust, doust
  • English: dust
  • Scots: dust, dist