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What does ash mean?

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Noun
  1. The solid remains of a fire.
  2. (chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process.
  3. Fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash.
  4. (plural) Human (or animal) remains after cremation.
  5. (figuratively) What remains after a catastrophe.
  6. A gray colour, like that of ash.
Verb
  1. (chemistry) To reduce to a residue of ash. See ashing.
  2. To hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette.
  3. (obsolete, mostly used in the past tense) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes.
Noun
  1. (countable, uncountable) A shade tree of the genus Fraxinus.
  2. (uncountable) The wood of this tree.
  3. The traditional name for the ae ligature (æ), as used in Old English.
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