dust

IPA: dˈʌst

Fine particles.
(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.
(uncountable) Any substance reduced to fine particles; powder.
(uncountable, astronomy) Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
(uncountable, Australia, slang, dated) Flour.
(countable, obsolete) A single fine, dry particle of earth or other material; grain of dust.
(countable) The act of cleaning by dusting.
(countable) The act of sprinkling dust, or a sprinkle of dust itself.
(poetic) Earth, ground, soil, sediment.
The earth as the resting place of the dead.
The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
(figurative) The substance of the human body or mortal frame.
(figurative) Something worthless.
(figurative) A low or mean condition.
(Britain, colloquial) Rubbish, garbage, refuse.
(slang, dated) cash; money (in reference to gold dust).
(countable) A cloud of dust.
(countable, figurative) A tumult, disturbance, commotion, uproar.
(countable, colloquial) A fight or row.
(countable, mathematics) A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
(cryptocurrencies) Tiny amounts of cryptocurrency left over after a transaction due to rounding error.
A surname.

(transitive) To remove dust from.
(intransitive) To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
(transitive, archaic) To make dusty, to soil with dust.
(intransitive or reflexive) Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
(transitive) To spray or cover (something) with fine powder or liquid, to sprinkle.
(transitive) To sprinkle (a substance) in the form of dust.
(intransitive, chiefly US slang) To leave quickly; to rush off.
(transitive, obsolete) To drink up quickly; to toss off.
(transitive, obsolete) To reduce to a fine powder; to pulverize, to levigate.
(transitive, now colloquial or dialectal) To strike, beat, thrash.
(transitive, chiefly US slang) To defeat badly, to thrash.
(transitive, chiefly US slang) To kill.
(transitive, baseball) To deliberately pitch a ball close to (a batter); to brush back.
(cryptocurrencies) To attempt to identify the owner of (a cryptocurrency wallet) by sending tiny amounts of cryptocurrency.

Examples of "dust" in Sentences

That is what they call the dust cover, the dust case that it is in.
_Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust_, and the dread responsive rattle given back by the coffin lid.
The final design looks awesome, but what we do with it after two weeks when the dust is a really big problem?
Most of the people there have walked hundreds of kilometers through a climate that takes the term "dust bowl" to the extreme.
Father Raimon steps closer – and can see that the dust is actually ash, and amongst the ash are larger bits of still-smoking blackened flesh.
I pretend I'm driving some kind of interplanetary fighter craft, and the dust is the result of having fought a dogfight in the tail of a comet.
Yea it is dust of the worst kind, caused from the mines of this ancient house of God, so that it pittieth his [1] servants to see her in the dust_.
Lebanese Red Cross and Civil Defense workers carry the body of a small child covered in dust from the rubble of his home that was hit in an Israeli missile strike in the village of Qana, east of the port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Sunday.
Lebanese Red Cross and Civil Defense workers carry the body of a small child covered in dust from the rubble of his home that was hit in an Israeli missile strike in the village of Qana, east of the port city of Tyre, Lebanon, Sunday, July 30, 2006.