ash

Meaning

Noun

1. The solid remains of a fire.
2. The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
3. Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
4. Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
5. Mortal remains in general.
6. What remains after a catastrophe.
7. A gray colour, like that of ash.

Verb

1. To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.
2. To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.
3. To hit the end off (a burning cigar or cigarette).
4. (obsolete) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.

Synonyms

ashes

dust

cinder

cinders

ember

soot

ash tree

Fraxinus

embers

hearth

powder

dirt

white ash

ash-tree

volcanic ash

complete destruction

fraxinus sieboldiana

pozzolan

pozzolana

tephros

ash content

European ash

ash specification

ashen

ash wood

debris

fireplace

grey

lampblack

lime tree

linden

lye

ruins

spear

stove

trass

Pronounced as (IPA)

/æʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English asshe, from Old English æsċe, from Proto-West Germanic *askā, from Proto-Germanic *askǭ (compare West Frisian jiske, Dutch as, Low German Asch, German Asche, Danish aske, Swedish aska, Norwegian aske), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs-; see it for cognates.
The rare plural axen is from Middle English axen, axnen, from Old English axan, asċan (“ashes”) (plural of Old English axe, æsċe (“ash”)).

Sentences

Thus , the oven remains " white ", or clean from ash .