dross
4
9.6
- noun
- /drɔs/
:
escoria
- Provided the peer-review system is healthy, it will sieve out the dross and save the paydirt.
And it just becomes some kind of dross.
- And it just becomes some kind of dross.
Examples
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And the gold is almost impossible to separate from the dross.
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Chinese leaders, however, wanted their students to reject the dross of Western ideology while absorbing useful techniques from the West.
Academic text (1999) -
Perhaps this time your computer promotion system has found platinum in a sea of dross.
Fiction book (1992) -
We have been honed in battle; the dross has been stripped away, leaving Spirit.
Fiction book (1997) -
Just like reading all this stuff and sorting out the diamonds from the dross.
Blog text (34) -
The correct attitude is to inherit the essence and discard the dross.
Academic text (1995) -
Meg Urry of the Space Telescope Science Institute said it's better to accept dross than to risk rejecting brilliance.
Academic text (1995) -
During the refining process, the workers removed the dross from the molten metal to purify it.
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The pot of melted gold produced a layer of dross that needed to be skimmed off for quality.
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As he examined the jewelry, he noted that some pieces contained small amounts of dross from the casting process.
Synonyms
536
1.0
Material that people throw away after use, like food or packaging
444
1.0
Things people throw away because they are unwanted
296
1.0
Unwanted food and other waste from a home or kitchen that you throw away
30
4.8
A thick, wet, muddy substance that comes from dirty water
24
4.2
A dirty layer that floats on the surface of water
22
1.0
Things people throw away because they are not wanted
19
5.1
A small unwanted substance in a material that can make it unsafe
18
9.5
A hard, stony waste left when metals are melted and cleaned
9
8.2
Loose bits of waste and broken things left after damage or natural events
2
2.6
Things like old or broken items that are thrown away
1
8.7
Unwanted old things or junk that make a place messy
1
9.9
Something of very low quality that you throw away
A layer of waste and glass that forms on the surface of melted metal
Dirt and waste removed when you clean something
Things people throw away because they are not useful
Antonyms
How Valuable
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dross comes from an old English word drōs that meant 'rubbish' or 'scum' and was used for the dirty layer that forms on top of melted metal, which workers skim off. So, dross today means the waste or unwanted material separated from something valuable.