Waste product of fire; the end product of incomplete combustion; the solid remains of fires; specifically, it refers to all non-aqueous, non-gaseous residues that remain after something is burned.
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Examples for "ashes "
Examples for "ashes "
1 Ms Meng's ashes were returned to her family in China last June.
2 Despite a large public response, the ashes have still not been found.
3 Billie put out the fire and scattered the ashes in the river.
4 Hadn't nuclear power generation arisen from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
5 The life she delighted in would have been ashes in my mouth.
Другие значения термина "ash" 1 The coal ash rule does not require tests of local drinking water.
2 But some ash trees are likely to have natural immunity, he said.
3 Others walked as far as 20 kilometres through swirling ash to safety.
4 Sheep deaths resulted from physical, rather than chemical properties of the ash .
5 I also determined the phosphoric acid in the ash of the clover-roots.
6 Oak and ash boughs reached across: in the ash the wood-pigeons lingered.
7 It has come crashing down due to a 'cash for ash ' scandal.
8 The Jolly Weeper had disappeared; there wasn't even any ash left behind.
9 The leaves around him, however, still held their pale layer of ash .
10 The ash cloud over the central north island could affect air travel.
11 I asked, blowing the ash from the live coal in my pipe.
12 It crouched under the dipping boughs of the ash - tree that sheltered it.
13 Up in the ash -tree a dove perched and looked down at Bevis.
14 A thin ash - grey shape flickering at the treeline far to the east.
15 This duty consisted in sweeping the floor every morning, emptying ash - trays , etc.
16 Traffic was suspended on Friday due to the ash cloud from Iceland.
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Ash в диалектах
Соединенные Штаты Америки