What's the difference between dawn and dust?

Dawn


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.
  • (v. i.) To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
  • (n.) The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise.
  • (n.) First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Greek police have said the 45-year old man arrested over the attack has admitted being a member of the extremist Golden Dawn Party.
  • (2) Far from securing the regime change they were seeking, the creditors now find that Syriza is being supported by all Greek political parties apart from the communists and the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn.
  • (3) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
  • (4) Short of setting up a hotline to the Met Office – or, more prosaically, moving to a country where the weather best suits our condition, as Dawn Binks says several sufferers she knows have done – migraineurs can do little to ensure that the climate is kind to them.
  • (5) Activity was stimulated by the change in illumination levels at dawn and dusk.
  • (6) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
  • (7) Justice League, a followup to Dawn of Justice featuring Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, arrives in May 2017, with a film starring Flash and the Green Lantern debuting the following Christmas.
  • (8) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
  • (9) In the worst cases, they are the 21st-century equivalent of the desperate dawn queue at the Victorian factory gate.
  • (10) North American box office estimates, 8-10 April The Boss: $23.48m - NEW Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: $23.435m.
  • (11) As far as I recall, getting up at dawn is not easy when you're 17.
  • (12) I think it takes some serious balls to respond the way I did.” Controversy followed him to his homeland overnight when the Australian former Olympic swimming champion Dawn Fraser said of Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic , who criticised Tennis Australia and was subsequently dropped from the Davis Cup team: “They should be setting a better example for the younger generation of this country, a great country of ours.” “If they don’t like it, go back to where their fathers or their parents came from.
  • (13) There had been simmering tension between the Tottenham Hotspur manager and officers since a dawn raid on his Dorset home that was watched by press photographers.
  • (14) Dawn, 43, a former journalist has left the life she had behind.
  • (15) Timing of insulin injections will frequently need to be adjusted to blunt the dawn phenomenon.
  • (16) Only now is the full effect of the NHS act dawning on its strongest advocates.
  • (17) The often confusing circumstances that led to their courts martial and the ruthlessness of their punishments only fully came to light with the publication in 1989 of Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes's history Shot at Dawn .
  • (18) Plasma cortisol and adrenocorticotropic hormone levels increased and growth hormone (GH) decreased significantly during the dawn period.
  • (19) Ten minutes' walk away is the wonderful Blaise Hamlet (open dawn until dusk).
  • (20) If the Coalition keeps going down the current path, its most enduring achievement will be the dismantlement of the equity-based federal funding settlement achieved under Whitlam and the dawn of a new era of evidence-less policy making.

Dust


Definition:

  • (n.) Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.
  • (n.) A single particle of earth or other matter.
  • (n.) The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
  • (n.) The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
  • (n.) Figuratively, a worthless thing.
  • (n.) Figuratively, a low or mean condition.
  • (n.) Gold dust
  • (n.) Coined money; cash.
  • (v. t.) To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor.
  • (v. t.) To sprinkle with dust.
  • (v. t.) To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The antigenic composition of an extract of rat dust, as a source of aeroallergens for rat-sensitive individuals, has been investigated and compared to the antigenic composition of rat saliva and urine.
  • (2) At the end of the dusting period those animals treated with normally charged dust had significantly more chrysotile retained in their lungs than animals exposed to discharged dust.
  • (3) Differences between mean durations of dust exposure of workers with radiographic signs of lung fibrosis and those without such signs were statistically insignificant.
  • (4) Where the guanine content was more than or equal to 0.25% in the dry dust, mite numbers were higher than 10 mites per 0.1 g dust in 43 of the 44 samples.
  • (5) The contents of hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI), in grinding dust were undetectable.
  • (6) The results of pathohistologic investigations are objectively demonstrated through a chart of morphological traits, thus facilitating the identification of the diagnostical morphological traits caused by different industrial dusts.
  • (7) A clinical investigation was made between workers exposed to dried sewage sludge dust and age matched controls not exposed.
  • (8) The median exposure of total dust was well below the Swedish threshold value, and the exposure of mould and bacteria was also low.
  • (9) Mattress dusts from the beds of 51 asthmatic children with positive skin tests to house dust mite were assayed for Der p I, Fel d I and certain viable fungi.
  • (10) According to the quantitative analysis between threshold titers of skin test and RAST titers using house dust and HD mites allergens, specific IgE production shall be decreased in the patients over 40 years old.
  • (11) Both the observance of occupational limit-values for dusts and other harmful materials at the work place, which have effects on the respiration system, and the medical survey of workers with the use of special methods for examination of respiratory system are necessary.
  • (12) Further, investigation of electrokinetic properties of these dusts by electrophoretic quasielastic light scattering is described.
  • (13) We have recently demonstrated in vitro a potential biological mechanism which could occur in vivo upon inhaling airborne graon dust, thereby constituting a potential inflammatory insult to the respiratory tracts of grain workers.
  • (14) After allowance for the fact that regression analyses suggested that the proportion of tremolite in dust was probably 2.5 times higher in Thetford Mines, Quebec, than in Charleston, the results from both matched pair and stratification analyses of tremolite fibre concentrations in lung were almost the same as for chrysotile.
  • (15) In vitro exposure of macrophages and neutrophils to inorganic dusts can enhance their oxidative metabolism, however the effects of inorganic dust inhalation on lung-inflammatory cell-oxidative metabolism remain unknown.
  • (16) Fifty asthmatics, candidates for hyposensitization with the house dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Dp), went through a series of allergy tests to evaluate the sensitivity of different organs to Dp.
  • (17) Specified cytotoxicity and mutagenicity of coal dust extract (mixture of solvent extractions of bituminous coal nitrosated by NaNO2) were investigated because of the association of an excess risk of gastric cancer in coal miners.
  • (18) History is littered with examples of byelection sensations that soon turned to dust.
  • (19) Inhalant allergens as mite house dust, animal danders, pollens, molds and food allergens are considered, now, to be the most sensitizing agents.
  • (20) Water from the reactors that were the source of Sonoda's drink is being used to spray trees to limit the buildup of dust and prevent fires.