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ash | grit |

As an interjection ash

is argh.

As a noun grit is

(canada|politics) a member or supporter of the liberal party of canada or one of its provincial wings (except for the quebec provincial wing).

As an adjective grit is

(canada|politics) of or belonging to the liberal party of canada.

ash

English

(wikipedia ash)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) asshe, from (etyl) ; see it for cognates.

Noun

  • The 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.
  • (chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
  • Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
  • (in the plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
    • The urn containing his ashes was eventually removed to a closet.
  • (figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.
  • *
    • Derived terms
    * Ash Wednesday * ash blonde * ash heap * ash hole * ash pan * ash pit * ash stand * ashcan * ashen * ashtray * ashy * the Ashes

    Verb

    (es)
  • (chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing .
  • * 1919 , Harry Gordon, Total Soluble and Insoluble Ash in Leather'', published in the ''Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association , W. K. Alsop and W. A. Fox, eds, volume XIV, number 1, on page 253
    • I dried the extracted leather very slowly on the steam bath
  • * 1981 , Hans Weill, Margaret Turner-Warwick, and Claude Lenfant, eds, Occupational Lung Diseases: Research Approaches and Methods'', ''Lung Biology in Health and disease, volume 18 , page 203
    • 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.
  • * 1989? , Annals of Botany , volume 64, issues 4-6, page 397
    • 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.
  • * 2010 , S. Suzanne Nielsen, ed, Food Analysis, fourth edition , ISBN 978-1-4419-1477-4, Chapter 12, "Traditional Methods for Mineral Analysis", page 213
    • 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.
  • To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.
  • (obsolete, mostly used in the past tense) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.
  • * 1847 , H., Ashes on Corn.---An Experiment'', published in the ''Genesee Farmer , volume 8, page 281
    • Last spring, after I planted, I took what ashes I have saved during the last year, and put on my corn
  • * 1849 , in a lettre to James Higgins, published in 1850 in The American Farmer , volume V, number 7, pages 227-8
    • After the corn was planted, upon acre A, I spread broadcast one hundred bushels of lime, (cost $3) and fifty bushels of ashes, (cost $6.)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) asshe, from (etyl) ).

    Noun

  • (countable, uncountable) A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus .
    • The ash''' trees are dying off due to emerald '''ash borer.
    The woods planted in ash will see a different mix of species.
  • (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
  • The traditional name for the ae ligature (), as used in Old English.
    • Derived terms
    * mountain ash * poison ash * prickly ash
    Synonyms
    * (tree) ash tree

    See also

    * * Yggdrasil

    Anagrams

    * * *

    grit

    English

    Etymology 1

    With early modern vowel shortening, from (etyl) grete, griet, from (etyl) ‘lump’).

    Noun

    (-)
  • Collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, swarf from metalworking.
    • The flower beds were white with grit from sand blasting the flagstone walkways.
  • Inedible particles in food.
    • It tastes like grit from nutshells in these cookies.
  • Firmness of mind; invincible spirit; unyielding courage or fearlessness; fortitude.
    • That kid with the cast on his arm has the grit to play dodgeball.
  • A measure of relative coarseness of an abrasive material such as sandpaper.
    • I need a sheet of 100 grit sandpaper.
  • (geology) A hard, coarse-grained siliceous sandstone; gritstone. Also, to a finer sharp-grained sandstone, e.g. grindstone grit .
    • Derived terms
    * *
    Related terms
    * * * sand, sandy, sandblasting
    See also
    * debris * mortar and pestle * swarf

    Verb

  • To clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger; apparently only appears in gritting one's teeth .
    • We had no choice but to grit our teeth and get on with it.
    He has a sleeping disorder and grits his teeth.
  • To cover with grit .
  • To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind.
  • * Goldsmith
    • The sanded floor that grits beneath the tread.
    Derived terms
    *

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) gryt ‘bran, chaff’, from (etyl) grytt, from (etyl) . See above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (usually in plural) husked]] but unground [[oat, oats
  • (usually in plural) coarsely ground corn or hominy used as porridge
    • Related terms
    * *

    Anagrams

    * girt * trig