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1. • • Dross has been a part of the English language since Anglo-Saxon times. It comes from the Old English word drōs, meaning "dregs," those solid materials that fall to the bottom of a container full of a liquid such as coffee or wine.
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   What does Dros mean?

   • n. 1. Waste or impure matter: discarded the dross after recycling the wood pulp. 2. The scum that forms on the surface of molten metal as a result of oxidation. 3. Worthless, commonplace, or trivial matter: "He was wide-awake and his mind worked clearly, purged of all dross" (Vladimir Nabokov). [Middle English dros, from Old English drōs, dregs.]

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   Is dross a noun or noun?

   • While dross is a noun for stuff that's physically left over or useless, like the nonmetallic stuff left when metal gets refined, it's also used for people and forms of art. A really bad movie can be called dross, and a low or despicable person can be dross. Debris, or trash, is another form of dross.

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   Where does the term dross come from?

   • The term dross does not originate from Old English drōsna, drōsne, meaning 'dregs, sediment'. Instead, it derives from Middle High German trosse, which comes from the French word trousse ('kit').

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   What does dross mean in the Bible?

   • "Dross", other than a synonym for rubbish and feces, is the residue of smelting of precious metals, frequently mentioned in the Bible as a methaphor for impurity and worthlessness. The music for the Dross is called Night Soil.

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   What is dross in metal?

   • Dross is a mass of solid impurities floating on a molten metal or dispersed in the metal, such as in wrought iron. It forms on the surface of low- melting-point metals such as tin, lead, zinc or aluminium or alloys by oxidation of the metal.

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   What is a dross & a dreg?

   • The term dross derives from the Old English word dros, meaning the scum produced when smelting metals (extracting them from their ores). By the 15th century it had come to refer to rubbish in general. Dregs, and the geological term druse are also thought to be etymologically related.

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   ˈdräs. ˈdrȯs. Synonyms of dross. 1. metallurgy : the scum or unwanted material that forms on the surface of molten metal. 2. : waste or foreign matter : impurity. 3. : something that is base (see base entry 3 sense 1), trivial, or inferior.

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   sewerage. shavings. skip diving. slag. spoil. white elephant. See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Not of good quality. (Definition of dross from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of dross. dross.

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   noun. worthless or dangerous material that should be removed. synonyms: impurity. see more see less. type of: waste, waste material, waste matter, waste product. any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted. noun. the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals.

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   dross. (drɒs , US drɔːs ) uncountable noun. If you describe something as dross, you mean that it is of very poor quality or has no value. [literary, disapproval] I go through phases where everything I write is just dross. More Synonyms of dross. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.

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   Dross definition: waste matter; refuse. See examples of DROSS used in a sentence.

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   Define dross. dross synonyms, dross pronunciation, dross translation, English dictionary definition of dross. n. 1. Waste or impure matter: discarded the dross after recycling the wood pulp. 2. The scum that forms on the surface of molten metal as a result of...

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   Dross definition: The scum that forms on the surface of molten metal as a result of oxidation.