Dross synonyms

drŏs, drôs

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garbage
The definition of garbage is waste to be thrown out, or anything worthless or offensive.
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scum
Refuse or worthless matter.
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rubbish
Worthless material.
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trash (related)
A container into which things are discarded.
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cinder
Slag, as from the reduction of metallic ores
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commonplace
(Obs.) A passage marked for reference or included in a commonplace book
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dregs
(collectively) The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.
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impurity
The quality or condition of being impure, especially:
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lees
(Plural only) The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.
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recrement
(Biology) A bodily secretion that is reabsorbed into the blood
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refuse
(Obsolete) refusal
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remains
All that is left after other parts have been taken away, used up, or destroyed.
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scoria
Rough, crusty, solidified lava containing numerous vesicles that originated as gas bubbles in the lava while it was still molten.
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sediment
(Geol.) Matter deposited by water or wind
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sinter
(Geol.) A concretionary sediment of silica or calcium carbonate deposited near the mouth of a mineral spring, geyser, etc.
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slag
The vitreous mass left as a residue by the smelting of metallic ore. It consists mostly of the siliceous and aluminous impurities from the iron ore.
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worthless
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detritus (related)
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mediocrity (related)
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draff
Refuse or dregs, esp. of malt after brewing
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scobs
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verbiage (related)
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  • Not all of the work here is of such a high standard but there isn't very much dross.

  • Browne finds that after smoking " chandoo," containing 8.98% of morphine, 7.63% was left in the dross, so that only 1.35% of morphia was carried over in the smoke or decomposed by the heat.

  • The last distinctive epithet was derived from the little hamlet in the vicinity which furnished shelter, not only to the workmen, but to the monks of St Jerome who were afterwards to be in possession of the monastery; and the hamlet itself is generally but perhaps erroneously supposed to be indebted for its name to the scoriae or dross of certain old iron mines.

  • The lead is melted down slowly, when the impurities separate in the form of a scum (dross), which is easily removed.

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