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Asperse
verb · 78% connection
To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Block
verb · 78% connection
A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Bort
noun · 78% connection
Imperfectly crystallized or coarse diamonds, or fragments made in cutting good diamonds which are reduced to powder and used in lapida…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Brush
noun · 78% connection
An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Cassiterite
noun · 78% connection
Native tin dioxide; tin stone; a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals of reddish brown color, and brilliant adamantine luster; als…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Chip
noun · 78% connection
A piece of wood, stone, or other substance, separated by an ax, chisel, or cutting instrument.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Chipping
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of cutting or breaking off small pieces, as in dressing iron with a chisel, or reducing a timber or block of stone…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Conglomerate
noun · 78% connection
A rock, composed or rounded fragments of stone cemented together by another mineral substance, either calcareous, siliceous, or argill…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Crumble
verb · 78% connection
To fall into small pieces; to break or part into small fragments; hence, to fall to decay or ruin; to become disintegrated; to perish.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Debris
noun · 78% connection
Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Dust
verb · 78% connection
To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Dusty
superl. · 78% connection
Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Excavation
noun · 78% connection
An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Flinders
n. pl. · 78% connection
Small pieces or splinters; fragments.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Fritter
verb · 78% connection
To break into small pieces or fragments.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Gene-splicing
noun · 78% connection
the technology of preparing recombinant DNA in vitro by cutting up DNA molecules and splicing together fragments from more than one or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Genetic engineering
noun · 78% connection
the technology of preparing recombinant DNA in vitro by cutting up DNA molecules and splicing together fragments from more than one or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
Gouge
noun · 78% connection
A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: dust, small, fragments, wood, stone.
