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- DictionaryDross/drôs/
noun
- 1. something regarded as worthless; rubbish: "there are bargains if you have the patience to sift through the dross"
The meaning of DROSS is the scum or unwanted material that forms on the surface of molten metal. How to use dross in a sentence. Did you know?
something that has no use or no value: So much of what's on TV is pure dross. We read all the manuscripts but 95 percent are dross. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Rubbish and waste. activated sludge. anti-littering. debris. dejunk. garbage disposal. gubbins. high-level waste. influent. jetsam. litter. muck. rubbish. sewerage. shavings
Things that are a total loss — really worthless or damaging — are dross. That gunk between your teeth that comes out when you floss? You could call that dross. No one wants it, and it's harmful if it stays.
Dross definition: waste matter; refuse.. See examples of DROSS used in a sentence.
Dross is a mass of solid impurities floating on a molten metal or dispersed in the metal, such as in wrought iron. It forms on the surface of low- melting-point metals such as tin, lead, zinc or aluminium or alloys by oxidation of the metal.
something that has no use or no value: So much of what's on TV is pure dross. We read all the manuscripts but 95 percent are dross. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Rubbish and waste. activated sludge. anti-littering. debris. dejunk. garbage disposal. gubbins. high-level waste. influent. jetsam. litter. muck. rubbish. sewerage. shavings
n. 1. Waste or impure matter: discarded the dross after recycling the wood pulp. 2. The scum that forms on the surface of molten metal as a result of oxidation. 3. Worthless, commonplace, or trivial matter: "He was wide-awake and his mind worked clearly, purged of all dross" (Vladimir Nabokov).
If you describe something as dross, you mean that it is of very poor quality or has no value.
dross meaning, definition, what is dross: something that is of very low quality: Learn more.
(specialist) a waste substance, especially that separated from a metal when it is melted. The fire burns away the dross leaving the pure metal. Word Origin. See dross in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: dross. Definition of dross noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
