{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "dəst" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "E:\\04_Source\\Private\\Source\\Web\\99_Test\\BackEnd\\PythonTest01/dic/audio/us/dust.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/dust.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English dust, doust, from Old English dūst (“dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder”), from the fusion of Proto-Germanic *dustą (“dust”) and *dunstą (“mist, dust, evaporation”), both from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”).\nCognate with Scots dust, dist (“dust”), Dutch duist (“pollen, dust”) and dons (“down, fuzz”), German Dust (“dust”) and Dunst (“haze”), Swedish dust (“dust”), Icelandic dust (“dust”), Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”). Also related to Swedish dun (“down, fluff”), Icelandic dúnn (“down, fluff”). See down." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Fine particles", "submean": [ "(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.\n2022 September 7, “East-West track laying heads westwards”, in RAIL, number 965, page 37, photo caption:There is so much dust released during the process of laying ballast that the trackside operator wears a full face mask with respirator.", "(astronomy, uncountable) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.\n2020 June 29, Paun Rincon, “Betelgeuse: Nearby 'supernova' star's dimming explained”, in BBC News:Astronomers have previously considered that dust produced by the star was obscuring it, causing the steep decline in brightness.", "(obsolete) A single particle of earth or other material.\n1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :to touch a dust of England's ground" ] }, { "mean": "(countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.\n2010, Joan Busfield, Michael Paddon, Thinking About Children: Sociology and Fertility in Post-War England (page 150)\n 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?" }, { "mean": "The earth, as the resting place of the dead.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Job 7:21:For now shall I sleep in the dust." }, { "mean": "The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.\n1833 (date written)​, Alfred Tennyson, “St. Simeon Stylites”, in Poems. , volume II, London: Edward Moxon, , published 1842, →OCLC, page 62:For I will leave my relics in your land, / And you may carve a shrine about my dust, / And burn a fragrant lamp before my bones, / When I am gather'd to the glorious saints." }, { "mean": "(figurative) Something worthless.\nc. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust." }, { "mean": "(figurative) A low or mean condition.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, 1 Samuel 2:8: raiseth up the poor out of the dust." }, { "mean": "(slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).\n1852, 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.'" }, { "mean": "(colloquial) A disturbance or uproar.\nto raise, or kick up, a dust" }, { "mean": "(mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To remove dust from.\n1918, W B Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC: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.\nThe cleaning lady needs a stool to dust the cupboard." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.\nDusting always makes me cough." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.\nThe mother dusted her baby's bum with talcum powder." }, { "mean": "(chiefly US slang) To leave; to rush off.\n1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, page 75:\nHe added in a casual tone: ‘The girl can dust. I'd like to talk to you a little, soldier.’" }, { "mean": "To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.\n1667, Thomas Sprat, History of the Royal Society of London:good Powder differs from bad in having more Peter and less Coal; and lastly, in the well dusting of it" }, { "mean": "(slang) To kill.\n1984, The Terminator, Los Angeles, Calif.: Orion Pictures; distributed by MGM Home Entertainment, published 1984, spoken by Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn):Kyle Reese: You have to be careful because the use infrared. They're not too bright. John taught us ways to dust them." } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "vacuum cleaner" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }