(n.) The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.
(n.) Rust of metals.
(n.) Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; dregs; refuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) We put stuff in there that was not really that good, but fortunately there were a couple of gleaming things that everyone remembers while they've forgotten the dross."
(2) In this region, nutritional deficiencies--a special diet for pregnant women composed of sour pomegranite seeds, black pepper, and garlic; consumption of bread contaminated with silica fibre; and ingestion of opium and opium dross--combined with long-lasting and daily thermal irritation of the esophagus with very hot tea play an important role in the development of this disease.
(3) Trump, who presents himself as a modern Midas even when much of what he touches turns to dross, has studied the conventions of journalists and displays more genius at exploiting them to his advantage than anyone else I have ever known.
(4) I’m going to enjoy being at Mardi Gras and going on that red bus because I can’t walk the distance.” Gary Schliemann, another 78er, says there is a lot of dross in the Mardi Gras parade but a lot of good floats shine through, such as No Pride in Detention.
(5) Even better, the Darwinian fact that these 21 books had remained in print for four decades meant that we did not have to wade through any dross – all our survivors had some merit – and, thanks to the open nature of the competition, I had the perfect opportunity to read several "genre" books I would not otherwise have picked up in a thousand years: the briny Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, the aforementioned Bomber , which brilliantly describes the progress of an Allied air raid over 24 hours in the summer of 1943.
(6) Argentina 1-0 Switzerland (Di Maria 118) This game has been dross, but this goal is pure quality!
(7) Hopefully, sickened by the rancid, greedy human dross that runs and ruins our country, we will start to turn, respectfully, in our thousands to dogs, for a while, or even to the exclusion of anything else, because a dog is a flawless innocent.
(8) I'd rather have a career than a blazing penis of Freudian plant matter administered by a hack known for his dashing personal style, but thanks for the metaphor, Ross (aka "Dross").
(9) While that may be, as Palin suggests, because of "a couple of gleaming things that everyone remembers while they've forgotten the dross", it's also because they changed how comedy worked for ever.
(10) Fired up, as ever, with total enthusiasm for the next book, I immediately wrote UoW off as contemptible dross not worth bothering about.
(11) Yes, there were iconic shows from the US like Kojak and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, but these were just well made entertainments at the very tippy-topmost peak of a mound of dross.
(12) Cromwell protested at such "dross and dung", but consented to wear a purple gown and sit on Edward the Confessor's throne in Westminster Hall.
(13) By 1933, Adams was writing in the New York Times of the way the American dream had been hijacked: "Throughout our history, the pure gold of this vision has been heavily alloyed with the dross of materialistic aims.
(14) Having built one or two gems among the dross is hardly exclusive to Derry.
(15) It seems probable that in Iran an initiating carcinogenic factor may be the custom of eating opium dross, which has been shown to be mutagenic, as well as consumption of contaminated bread with extraneous seeds containing a large quantity of silica fibres, which is a strong stimulant of growth.
(16) His fiction was a product of this process, an inner alchemy that turned the dross of senseless suffering into something beautiful and life-affirming.
(17) The variation in CdB levels was not associated with child's age, nutritional status, iron status, family per capita income, blood lead level, being a child of a lead worker, the habit of pica, and contamination of child's peridomiciliar environment by smelter dross.
(18) Funnily enough though, he failed to mention that the academy that he felt was a beacon shining in a world of dross was in fact created by the Labour party.
(19) Pyrolysed substances, opium dross in north-east Iran and tobacco pipe residues in the Transkei, displayed mutagenic activity in Salmonella typhimurium strains TA98 and TA100 in the presence of rat liver microsomes.
(20) 11am: "Now dubbed 'The Battle of Beglin's Ear', last night's game was typical ITV fare: 95% total dross, 5% passable entertainment," harrumphs Justin Spencer.
Slag
Definition:
(v. t.) The dross, or recrement, of a metal; also, vitrified cinders.
(v. t.) The scoria of a volcano.
Example Sentences:
(1) I don't want to go on slagging groups like U2 or Simple Minds that aren't worth the words.
(2) In the Netherlands both Portland cement and blast furnace cement (slags from blast furnaces with about 30% Portland cement) are used for concrete.
(3) Meanwhile the Police Federation's attempts to extract retribution for the disputed p-word, in the form of Andrew Mitchell's sacking, have been roundly slagged off by former Labour minister Chris Mullin , who last week described the organisation as "a bully", "a bunch of headbangers" and "a mighty vested interest that has seen off just about all attempts to reform the least reformed part of the public service".
(4) As Miliband prepared to deliver his speech, whose contents were trailed over the weekend in an interview with the Mail on Sunday , Boris Johnson, the Conservative mayor of London, rounded on politicians who are "slagging off" a sector that is "crucial to the British economy".
(5) Mineral wool insulation, which is made from Tennessee phosphate slag, and commonly used insulation, which is made from blast furnace slag, had similar concentrations of these radionuclides.
(6) Quantities of land-disposed or stored residuals, including slags, sludges, and dusts, are given per unit of metal production for most primary and secondary metal smelting and refining industries.
(7) However, this hazard is not associated with any index of exposure to slag wool itself.
(8) Relatively thick rock and ceramic fibres (median greater than 1 micron) induced tumours, but slag and wollastonite fibres did not, probably because of their better solubility.
(9) The radioactivity levels of coal ash and slag in Hong Kong are about the average values in other countries.
(10) The US president might be all mouth in slagging off the Russians behind their backs, but Vlad was confident he was no trousers face to face.
(11) Long-term inhalation studies using several animal species and dust preparations of fibrous glass, rock wool or slag wool have produced little evidence of pulmonary fibrosis or pulmonary tumors.
(12) Mr Cameron can hardly slag off Mr Clegg as "not fit for government" when they will have spent five years sitting in the same cabinet.
(13) Who cares?” tweeted former congressman Anthony Weiner, and slagged off Philadelphia as a “2nd tier city”: Anthony Weiner (@anthonyweiner) Honestly, who cares?
(14) Concrete blocks made with phosphate slag had enhanced 226Ra and 228Ra contents when compared to ordinary concrete block.
(15) The present study is concerned with the pulmonary pathological changes in the rats following intra-tracheal administration of sintering dust and vanadium slag separately.
(16) Now I'd love to stay and chat all night, but unfortunately I have to correct all the typos in this report, insert gags where appropriate and remove all the bits where I slagged off Steven Gerrard, who is about to lift the Champions League trophy for Liverpool.
(17) Something sticks in the throat about having the word “lad” associated with a rapist, or an abuser, or even someone who might see fit to call me a slag.
(18) 2.09pm GMT In an unusual turn of fate, the front-page headline in today’s Bild is basically “Guardian live blogger slags off German Olympic uniform”.
(19) I have lost count of the number of times I have been called a slag for refusing to accept a man's advances or to respond to street harassment.
(20) This is a band that doesn't want to be slagging off the biggest pop station in the country.