dross

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. (uncountable, usually) Waste or impure matter.
2. (uncountable, usually) Waste or impure matter.
3. (uncountable, usually) Waste or impure matter.
4. (figuratively, uncountable, usually) Worthless or trivial matter.
5. (slang, uncountable, usually) Residual raw opium left in an opium pipe which can be recycled for further sale or use.

Verb

To remove dross from.

Concepts

rebut

impureté

salope

scorie

résidu d’opium

dross

écume

slag

laitier

Synonymes

scoria

slag

scum

cinder

impurity

refuse

clinker

verdigris

dregs

waste

dirt

trash

skim

stain

sullage

waste matter

offscourings

scoriae

rust of iron

molten slag

tin dross

dross trap

drossing

fused slag

iron cake

slag-off

raking off the slag

moltenslag

molten-slag

bagasse

dross spot

leavings

offal

quid

recrement

residue

rubbish

rust

scraps

scruff

scumming

sediment

Traductions

escòria

artık

escoria

süprüntü

Schlacke

değersiz

schuim

slak

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απορρίμματα

جفائ

كُدارة ؛ نُفاية

Abbrand

Krätze

ακαθαρσία λιωμένου μετάλλου

impuresa

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/dɹɒs/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: drosse

Hérité de ancien anglais: drōs

Appartenant à écossais: dros

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: droes

Appartenant à néerlandais: droesem

Appartenant à allemand: Drusen

Appartenant à latin: fracēs

In summary

From Middle English drosse, dros, from Old English drōs, from Proto-Germanic *drōhs (“dregs, sediment”).
Also compare Old English drōsna, drōsne (“a ground, sediment, lees, dregs, dirt, ear wax”), from Proto-Germanic *drōhsnǭ, *drōhsnō (“dregs, sediment”), derived from *drōhs. Alternatively, this may be from *dragjō + *-snō (“yeast, sediment”; compare *dragjō (“yeast”)), as if from *drēcg + -sn.
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“sediment, yeast”).
Cognate with Scots dros, drose, drosse (“small particles, fragments, dross”), Middle Dutch droes (“dregs”), Dutch droesem (“dregs”), German Drusen (“lees, dregs”), Latin fracēs (“grounds or dregs of oil”). Related also to drast, dregs.