Sawdust

Definition: Sawdust

Sawdust

Noun

1. Fine particles of wood made by sawing wood.

Date "sawdust" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Sawdust

Domain	Definitions
Dream Interpretation	To dream of sawdust, signifies that grievous mistakes will cause you distress and quarreling in your home. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: Sawdust

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Pulverulence	Powder, dust, sand, shingle; sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule; crumb, seed, grain; particle. (smallness); limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder; flocculi.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Sawdust

English words defined with "sawdust": Artificial fuel ♦ Badigeon, Bois durci ♦ Dualin ♦ Haloxyline ♦ Insulite ♦ Neishout ♦ Oxalic acid ♦ paillasse, palliasse, Pluteus magnus ♦ sawdust doll, sawdust saloon, Scobiform, swadust mushroom. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sawdust": ARTIFICIAL-LOG-MACHINE OPERATOR, ASSEMBLER, CORNCOB PIPES ♦ barrel-line operator, Biochemical oxygen demand, bit setter, borer, stem, BRAN MIXER, BRANNER-MACHINE TENDER ♦ chip separator, chip space, CHIP TESTER, clearer tooth, COOLER ROOM WORKER ♦ drum plater ♦ ETCHER HELPER, HAND, etcher, enameling ♦ ferruler, FREIGHT-CAR CLEANER, DELTA SYSTEM, FUEL-HOUSE ATTENDANT, FUR CLEANER, fur dry-cleaner, FURNACE HELPER ♦ GLUING-MACHINE OFFBEARER, ground covering ♦ LIVESTOCK-YARD ATTENDANT ♦ meat smoker, MILLER, WOOD FLOUR ♦ oriental powder, Other Wood, OXIDIZED-FINISH PLATER ♦ Pellets, plater helper, PLATER, BARREL, plater, machine ♦ raker tooth ♦ Sawdust Parlance, sawdust-machine operator, SCREEN TENDER, CHIPS, SHELL-SIEVE OPERATOR, smokehouse attendant, stem assembler, stem setter, SWEEPING-COMPOUND BLENDER ♦ TUBBER, TUMBLER OPERATOR, tumbler plater ♦ washer-off, wood flour. (references)

Etymologies containing "sawdust": Scobiform. (references)

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Modern Usage: Sawdust

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	How do you remove a speck of sawdust from your brother's eye when all the while there's a big plank in your own? (Godspell; writing credit: David Greene; John-Michael Tebelak) It's like a pancake, except the natives didn't have any flour so they used sawdust. (Sabrina the Animated Series; writing credit: Josh Stolberg)
Movie/TV Titles	Operation Sawdust (1953) Sawdust Paradise (1928) Babes in the Sawdust (1926) Sally of the Sawdust (1925) Sawdust Trail (1924)
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Commercial Usage: Sawdust

Domain	Title
References	The World Market for Sawdust, Wood Waste, and Wood Scrap: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Billy Sunday: Evangelist on the Sawdust Trail (Heroes of the Faith) (reference) Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley (reference) Sawdust and Incense: World's That Shape a Priest (reference) Sawdust in His Shoes (reference) Sawdust Trail Preacher: Billy Sunday (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Sawdust City Roots (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Sally of the Sawdust (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Sawdust (reference) Sawdust in My Veins (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Shop-Vac 801-75-62 Workshop Sawdust Collection System (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Sawdust

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Photo Album: Sawdust

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	Mr. Crowley amuses himself with sawdust.Credit: Library of Congress.		Sawdust from the Longview sawmill is dumped into barges on the Columbia River. Washington.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Substitutes. Composition clock cases. Good clock-making materials from waste. Old paper, sawdust, wood scrap, rosin--anything with a fiber--yield cellulose for the making of composition clock cases, frame plates and other parts at the Winsted, Conneticut.Credit: Library of Congress.		The sawdust from thousands of logs is piled near a power plant on the Columbia River, Oregon.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Waste sawdust from the Columbia River mills is shipped to Portland power plants for use as fuel. Oregon.Credit: Library of Congress.		Burning pile of sawdust at sawmill at Wells, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Sawdust pile. Heard County, Georgia.Credit: Library of Congress.		Grain elevator made from abandoned waste and sawdust burner at abandoned sawmill. Bonners Ferry, Idaho. At one time lumbering was first industry of this section, now cut-over farming ranks high.Credit: Library of Congress.
	West Danville, Vermont. A load of sawdust from the lumber mill. The wagon saves gas and rubber.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Use in Literature: Sawdust

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Squirt in a couple quarts of sawdust.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Sawdust

"Sawdust" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.64% of the time. "Sawdust" is used about 112 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	94.64%	106	31,637
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	2.68%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (base form)	1.79%	2	245,945
Noun (proper)	0.89%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	112	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Sawdust

Expressions using "sawdust": knock the sawdust out of smb. ♦ sawdust doll ♦ sawdust saloon. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "sawdust": sawdust-covered, sawdust-on-the-floor, sawdust-scented, sawdust-strewn.
	Ending with "sawdust": spit-and-sawdust.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Sawdust

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
festival sawdust	118
sawdust	47
beach festival laguna sawdust	26
day sawdust	16
festival laguna sawdust	12
day oshkosh sawdust	10
art festival sawdust	8
pie sawdust	4
kilns sawdust	3
city estate real sawdust	3
beach ca festival laguna sawdust	3
sawdust collection system	3
sawdust toilet	3
sally of sawdust	3
sawdust collector	3
hickory sawdust	3
sawdust use	2
sawdust collection	2
fired pottery sawdust	2
sawdust stitch	2
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Modern Translations: Sawdust

Language		Translations for "sawdust"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		tallash (saw-powder), miell sharre. (various references)

Arabic		‏نشارة (mulch). (various references)

Bulgarian		дървени стърготини. (various references)

Chinese		�"�木屑. (various references)

Czech		piliny (filings, saw dust, scobs). (various references)

Danish		savsmuld. (various references)

Dutch		segatura, zaagsel (finest caster sugar), zaagmeel, houtzaagsel. (various references)

Farsi		پوچ (Absurd, Airy, Empty, Hollow, Inane, Inoperative, Invalid, Nude, Nugatory, Unmeaning, Vacuous, Vain, Void), خاک اره , باخاک اره پوشاندن . (various references)

Finnish		sahajauhot. (various references)

French		sciure. (various references)

German		Sägemehl. (various references)

Greek		πριονίδια (chips, saw dust, shavings). (various references)

Hebrew		� סורת (shaving, shavings). (various references)

Hungarian		fűrészpor. (various references)

Italian		segatura. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		鋸屑 , 大鋸屑 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おがくず, の�"くず. (various references)

Korean		톱밥. (various references)

Manx		meinn saaue. (various references)

Pig Latin		awdustsay

Portuguese		serradura (scobs). (various references)

Romanian		rumeguş. (various references)

Russian		опилки (filings, scobs). (various references)

Scottish		sgabh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		strugotine (filings, parings, scobs, shavings), piljevina (scobs), opiljci. (various references)

Spanish		serrín. (various references)

Swedish		sågspån. (various references)

Thai		ขี้เลื่อย. (various references)

Turkish		testere talaşı, talaş (Excelsior, rasping, shavings, shiver, swarf, wood shavings), bıçkı tozu. (various references)

Ukranian		тирса. (various references)

Vietnamese		vạch rõ bản chất trống rỗng của ai, lật tẩy ai. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Sawdust

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sawdust": sawdusts. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sawdust" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sadwu, sardasht, sawcut, Shawdicth. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Sawdust"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "sawdust" (pronounced sô"du'st)
4	-d u' s t	Stardust.
3	-u' s t	wanderlust.
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Anagrams: Sawdust

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-s-s-t-u-w"
	-2 letters: adust, dauts, dawts, dusts, studs, swats, wasts.
	-3 letters: daut, daws, dawt, dust, saws, staw, stud, suds, swat, tads, tass, taus, taws, twas, utas, wads, wast, wats, wuss.
	-4 letters: ads, ass, daw, sad, sat, sau, saw, tad, tas, tau, taw, twa, uta, uts, wad, was, wat, wud.
	-5 letters: ad, as, at, aw, ta, us, ut.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-s-s-t-u-w"
	+1 letter: sawdusts.
	+3 letters: southwards.
	+4 letters: outwardness, wanderlusts.
	+5 letters: untowardness.
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