dross

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• Received-Pronunciation: /dɹɒs/
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• General-American: /dɹɔs/
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• Canada, US, cot-caught-merger: /dɹɑs/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /dɹɔs/
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• Australian, New-Zealand: /dɹɒs/
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• rhymes with -ɒs
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• rhymes with -ɔːs
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• CMU ARPABET: D R AO1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English drosse, dros, from Old English drōs, from Proto-Germanic *drōhs (“dregs, sediment”). Also compare Old English drōsna, drōsne (“a ground, sediment, lees, dregs, dirt, ear wax”), from Proto-Germanic *drōhsnǭ, *drōhsnō (“dregs, sediment”), derived from *drōhs. Alternatively, this may be from *dragjō + *-snō (“yeast, sediment”; compare *dragjō (“yeast”)), as if from *drēcg + -sn. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dhrā́ks (“sediment, yeast”). Cognate with Scots dros, drose, drosse (“small particles, fragments, dross”), Middle Dutch droes (“dregs”), Dutch droesem (“dregs”), German Drusen (“lees, dregs”), Latin fracēs (“grounds or dregs of oil”). Related also to drast, dregs.

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: отпадъци (otpadǎci) — Waste or impure matter
• Czech: odpad — Waste or impure matter
• Czech: škvár — Waste or impure matter
• Czech: brak — Waste or impure matter
• Czech: šmejd — Waste or impure matter
• German: Müll — Waste or impure matter
• German: Schrott — Waste or impure matter
• Greek: περιττό (perittó) — Waste or impure matter
• Persian: تفاله (tofâle) — Waste or impure matter
• Persian: لوث (lows) — Waste or impure matter
• Polish: nieczystości — Waste or impure matter
• Polish: odpady — Waste or impure matter
• Russian: отбро́сы (otbrósy) — Waste or impure matter
• Serbo-Croatian: о̏тпа̄д — Waste or impure matter
• Serbo-Croatian: о̀тпадак — Waste or impure matter
• Serbo-Croatian: ȍtpād — Waste or impure matter
• Serbo-Croatian: òtpadak — Waste or impure matter
• Swedish: slagg — Waste or impure matter
• Ottoman Turkish: بوق (bok) — Waste or impure matter
• Bulgarian: шлака (šlaka) — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Czech: struska — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• French: crasse — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• French: écume — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• French: scorie — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Galician: escoura — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• German: Schlacke — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• German: Krätze — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Ancient Greek: σκωρία (skōría) — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Italian: scoria — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Kazakh: қақ (qaq) — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Kazakh: қабыршақ (qabyrşaq) — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Latin: spodium — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Polish: opiłki — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Portuguese: escória — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Romanian: zgură — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Russian: ока́лина (okálina) — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Russian: шлак (šlak) — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Serbo-Croatian: troska — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Serbo-Croatian: šljaka — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Spanish: escoria — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Swedish: slagg — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Tagalog: taing-bakal — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Ottoman Turkish: بوق (bok) — Residue that forms on the surface of molten metal
• Bulgarian: примес (primes) — The impurities in metal
• Polish: nieczystości — The impurities in metal
• Russian: при́месь (prímesʹ) — The impurities in metal
• Serbo-Croatian: при̑мјеса — The impurities in metal
• Serbo-Croatian: нечисто̀ћа — The impurities in metal
• Serbo-Croatian: prȋmjesa — The impurities in metal
• Serbo-Croatian: nečistòća — The impurities in metal
• Ottoman Turkish: بوق (bok) — The impurities in metal
• Czech: struska — A waste product from working with metal
• Czech: škvára — A waste product from working with metal
• Galician: escoura — A waste product from working with metal
• Latin: scoria — A waste product from working with metal
• Polish: zgar — A waste product from working with metal
• Romanian: zgură — A waste product from working with metal
• Russian: шлак (šlak) — A waste product from working with metal
• Serbo-Croatian: шља̏ка — A waste product from working with metal
• Serbo-Croatian: šljȁka — A waste product from working with metal
• Spanish: escoria — A waste product from working with metal
• Swedish: slagg — A waste product from working with metal
• Ottoman Turkish: بوق (bok) — A waste product from working with metal
• German: Abschaum — Worthless or trivial matter
• German: Schund — Worthless or trivial matter
• Polish: odpad — Worthless or trivial matter
• Serbo-Croatian: о̀тпадак — Worthless or trivial matter
• Serbo-Croatian: òtpadak — Worthless or trivial matter