noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Ash Wednesday
cigarette ash
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She flicked her cigarette ash onto the ground.
mountain ash
pall of smoke/dust/ash etc
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A pall of thick grey smoke hung over the buildings.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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He went round the back of the house and inspected the incinerator, now full of partly glowing but mainly black ashes .
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A baby carriage was overturned, and a heavy rain of black ash descended for a long while afterward.
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He stirred the damp black ashes of the study floor with his foot.
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Large areas of island are covered with thick deposits of black volcanic ash , known locally as picon.
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Sally with her slaves rolled up and her hands black with ashes from the dead fire.
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He lit the photographs one by one and let the flimsy black rectangles of ash drop into the bin.
fine
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Last, and most important, is the cloud of fine ash which rises.
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It looked and felt like fine ash , like the kind from charcoal briquettes.
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Inside it a few pathetic bones glowed red hot and then crumbled into fine ash .
hot
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We used to cook potatoes and sausages in hot ashes after the fire had burnt down.
volcanic
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The island became covered with vegetation, fossils of which are sometimes found in the volcanic ashes .
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The buried artifacts were found between layers of volcanic ash and other substances.
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Large areas of island are covered with thick deposits of black volcanic ash , known locally as picon.
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Multicolored volcanic ash flows, long since hardened to jagged rock, reach into the sea like fantastic taffy mountains.
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The city was buried under several meters of volcanic ash , many of the inhabitants being asphyxiated in their houses.
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The finest fragments make volcanic ash and dust.
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It therefore follows that all sedimentary bodies, other than deep sea oozes and volcanic ash deposits, are likely to be diachronous.
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Over aeons, the undulating plains have been showered by volcanic ash blown westward from Ngorongoro, Lemagrut and other now-extinct volcanos.
white
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Oak furniture range, Laura Ashley 3 Variations dressing table in light ash , white ash or black.
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Atop the charred ground, white ash marks the shadows of fallen trees that burned so hot they disintegrated.
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The fire in the hearth was now a heap of white ash .
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These barn sills enclose thick white birch, ash , and maple trees.
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A dusty-faced boy was now raking the coal and wood from this into a tidy, white pile of ash .
■ NOUN
cigarette
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Now the challenge is to mould a new identity for international car racing by Timothy Collings Cigarette ash fell to the floor.
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It was unlike Jasper not to object to cigarette ash , in ravioli.
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It is subject to grease and grime from the hands, occasional coffee spills, cigarette ash , dead flies and sandwich crumbs.
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It feeds largely on ants whose remains can be found in the birds droppings, which resemble cigarette ash .
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Madeleine put down her pen and knocked her cigarette ash into a blue Limoges dish like a saucer.
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For example, the cigarette ash referred to above remains in place some 24 hours after being discovered!
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He tapped his cigarette ash on the floor.
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He smoked constantly and his clothes were always smeared with cigarette ash .
cloud
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Overhead, lightning flickered frequently as the static electricity accumulating in the ash cloud discharged.
mountain
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Finiver is of the rowan, or mountain ash .
soda
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The Commission imposed fines on three chemicals companies on Dec. 19, 1990, for operating an illegal cartel in soda ash .
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In 1873 they formed a partnership, born of mutual respect and trust, to manufacture soda ash near Northwich in Cheshire.
tray
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Galvone hurried to place a crystal ash tray on a small table beside him.
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Alice hurriedly put out the cigarette and got up to empty the ash tray .
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The ash tray was getting crowded when I decided there was no percentage in doing any more worrying for a while.
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He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached.
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He placed his unfinished cigar in the ash tray and rose from the table, leaving his brandy untouched.
tree
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Boulders lay around the waterside, ash trees spreading finger-like leaves overhead.
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I noticed that some of the upstart ash trees were already bearing seeds, and some were loaded with them.
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Only a nearby ash tree , which had better buffered bark, retained the lichen.
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I still see the pale bluish-green, red-studded caterpillars of promethea moths on the ash trees .
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To my amazement, they were burning brightly as the rain fell and water dripped from the ash trees .
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He said, an ash tree a foot high is still an ash tree.
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Young elder tree and ash tree leaves can also turn black sometimes once they have been pressed.
■ VERB
burn
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It will be carried stiff to the burning ground and there burnt and reduced to ashes .
bury
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Many crematoria include scattering or burying the ashes in a garden of remembrance in their fee.
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She now wants to bury all Ryan's ashes in Santa Barbara, California.
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She had lifted the larger pieces clear when she saw something buried in the grey ash .
flick
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He flicked the ash towards the fireplace with the back of his hand.
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He flicks his ashes without reflection on the ground.
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He watched her sit up and flick the ash on to the floor.
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He flicks the ash off his faded blue jeans and lights up another cigarette.
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They flicked ash from their cigarettes into the empty wine-glasses and shouted each other down in vain attempts to be witty.
reduce
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The town's historic centre was reduced to ashes .
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The original versions were reduced to ashes when an earlier Capitol burned in 1881.
rise
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His proposal that a new socialist party should rise from the ashes of the present one was hardly disputed.
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Pluto's theme is transformation and his emblem the phoenix rising from the ashes .
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The site is rising from the ashes of a former foundry following Mrs Thatcher's famous Wilderness Walk there in 1987.
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In fact, one way and another the food is very aptly named, having risen from the ashes in two senses!
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It said that temperatures could be expected to rise now that ash from the Pinatubo eruption was dissipating.
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This year, the phoenix has risen from its ashes , a phoenix in brighter plumage than he has ever worn before.
scatter
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The New Zealanders, appropriately garbed in funereal black, arrive next week to scatter the ashes .
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There was initially an extreme reluctance to scatter the ashes .
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Some churches are happy to scatter the ashes in the graveyard or bury them according to the family's wishes.
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And his family are hoping to scatter Mr Corbett's ashes at Anfield, where his father Dennis also came to rest.
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The weather had turned a chill grey, and a brisk wind scattered the ashes of half-a-hundred fires.
tap
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When he'd done that he took the cigarette out of his mouth, tapped some ash off and studied the glowing end.
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He tapped his cigarette ash on the floor.
turn
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Passion is blushing furiously across pop, rapidly turning it to ashes in its shame.
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His strength was turned to ashes .
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A typhoon also moved in that day, obscuring the mountain and turning the airborne ash into a downpour of mud.
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The print on the burning newspaper pages glowed for a moment before turning to ash .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
reduce sth to ashes/rubble/ruins
rise like a phoenix from the ashes
wear sackcloth and ashes
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I have no wish to see Aitken go through the rest of his life wearing sackcloth and ashes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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cigar ash
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Investigators sifted through the ashes to find the cause of the fire.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even when remains are cremated, the ashes are often placed in an urn and buried.
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In 1871 it burned down, 17,000 buildings were consumed, and a third of the city lay in ashes.
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In the ashes were bits of broken eggshell.
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The explosion spewed ash and golf ball-sized fireballs into the air.
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The original versions were reduced to ashes when an earlier Capitol burned in 1881.
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Tiny wisps of ash floated up.