Dictionary Definition
ash
Noun
1 the residue that remains when something is
burned
2 any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved
ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus [syn: ash tree]
3 strong elastic wood of any of various ash
trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such
as baseball bats v : convert into ashes
User Contributed Dictionary
Extensive Definition
Ash may refer to:
Products of fire, incineration or combustion
- The solid remains of a fire
- Incinerator bottom ash, a form of ash produced in incineration facilities
- Volcanic ash, material ejected from a volcano
- Ash (analytical chemistry), the compounds that remain after a scientific sample is burned
- Fly ash and bottom ash, products of coal combustion
- The remains of a cadaver after cremation
Trees
- Ash tree, any tree of the genus Fraxinus, or the wood from those trees
- Mountain Ash, any of several other trees
- Prickly Ash, any of several species of the genus Zanthoxylum
Science
- Soda ash, a common name for sodium carbonate
- Plasma ashing, a process in semiconductor manufacturing
Media and entertainment
- Ash Williams, character in the Evil Dead film series
- Ash (ballet) by Peter Martins (1991)
- Ash (comic)
- Ash (band)
- Ash (director), independent filmmaker
- ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat, a video game
- Ash Ketchum, in the anime, Pokemon
Linguistics
- Æ, a letter used in Old English texts
- Near-open front unrounded vowel, the vowel sound represented by the æ symbol
Companies, organizations and schools
- Action on Smoking and Health, a lobbying group
- American School of the Hague, a school in the Netherlands
- American Society of Hematology, an American professional organization
- Mesa Airlines, ASH in ICAO code
- Nashua Municipal Airport, ASH in IATA code
- Ash, the robot from Alien
Places
In Australia
- Ashburton railway station, Melbourne; station code ASH
In the United Kingdom
- Ash, Derbyshire, England
- Ash, Devon, England
- Ash, Surrey, England
- Ash (near Salway), Dorset, England
- Ash (near Stourpaine), Dorset, England
- Ash (near Sandwich), Kent, England
- Ash-cum-Ridley, near Sevenoaks, Kent, England
- Ash (near Taunton), Somerset, England
- Ash (near Yeovil), Somerset, England
In the United States
- Ash, Oregon in Douglas County, Oregon
- A community in Brunswick County, North Carolina
Other meanings
- Ash (god), a figure in Egyptian mythology
- Ash (Aishwarya Rai), one of the nicknames of Indian actress Aishwarya Rai
- Ash railway station, a rail station near Guildford in the United Kingdom
- Almquist shell, a command-line interface for computers
- Alt.suicide.holiday, a Usenet newsgroup
- American Shorthair, a breed of cat
- Bisnovat R-4, a missile with the NATO reporting name ASH
- Ash Mountain, several mountains by this name in Canada and the USA
See also
ash in Danish: Aske
(flertydig)
ash in German:
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ash in Spanish:
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ash in French:
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ash in Italian:
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ash in Dutch:
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ash in Japanese:
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ash in Polish:
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ash in Portuguese:
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ash in Simple English:
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
alluvion, alluvium, ashes, brand, calx, carbon, charcoal, cinder, cinders, clinker, clinkers, coal, coals, coke, coom, deposition, deposits, diluvium, draff, dregs, dross, ember, embers, feces, froth, fume, fumes, grounds, lava, lees, loess, moraine, offscum, precipitate, precipitation, reek, scoria, scum, sediment, settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smoke, smudge, smut, soot, sublimate, sullage