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  • 1dust — [dust] n. [ME < OE, akin to MLowG: for IE base see DUN1] 1. powdery earth or other matter in bits fine enough to be easily suspended in air 2. a cloud of such matter 3. confusion; turmoil 4. a) earth, esp. as the place of burial …

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  • 2dust — [[t]dʌst[/t]] n. 1) earth or other matter in fine dry particles 2) a cloud of finely powdered earth or other matter in the air 3) any finely powdered substance, as sawdust 4) the ground; the earth s surface 5) the substance to which something, as …

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  • 3dust bowl — ˈdust bowl noun [countable] an area of land where farming is not possible because it is too dry, used especially to talk about parts of the mid western United States during the 1930s: • Many Americans abandoned the dust bowl in search of jobs. *… …

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  • 4Dust Bowl — For other uses, see Dust Bowl (disambiguation). A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 1936. Photo: Arthur Rothstein. The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms ca …

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  • 5Dust storm — For the fictional character, see Dust Storm (Transformers). For other uses, see Sandstorm (disambiguation). Part of the Nature series on Weather   Calendar seasons …

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  • 6dust gun — noun : a hand device used for applying dust to a surface (as an insecticide to crops or calcium cyanide in the burrows of rodents to destroy them by gas) * * * a hand operated device for spraying pesticide or dusting plants …

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  • 7Asian Dust — Yellow Dust Dust clouds leaving mainland China and traveling toward Korea and Japan. Chinese name Traditional Chinese …

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  • 8(the) Dust Bowl — the Dust Bowl [the Dust Bowl] an area in the western central US where there were terrible dust storms in the 1930s. These were caused by strong winds blowing the dry earth off the fields, and they made it difficult to grow crops. Many farmers… …

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  • 9Spellbinder (TV series) — infobox television show name = Spellbinder caption = Spellbinder symbol format = sci fi runtime = 24 minutes creator = Mark Shirrefs John Thomson starring = Zbych Trofimiuk Gosia Piotrowska Heather Mitchell Brian Rooney Michela Noonan Krzysztof… …

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  • 10Geography of Turkmenistan — Dust Storm Over Turkmenistan Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia, bordering the Caspian Sea to the west, Iran and Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the north east, and Kazakhstan to the north west. It is the southernmost… …

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