dusting — قاموس الإنجليزية

اسم

1. A light snowfall.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود

   أمثلة

   The rooves are covered with a dusting of snow.

2. A light covering of something.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود

   أمثلة

   Cover the cake with a dusting of confectioner's sugar.

3. The act of removing dust from the furniture, as a household chore.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   Tuesday is the day when I do the dusting.

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   Strict orders had been given by Mrs. Breen the night before that certain dustings and arrangings of furniture should take place, the spacious stairs swept, and the hectic hired palms in their great china pots watered.

4. A beating.

   الاستعمال

   • عامي
   • معدود

5. A maintenance or comfort behaviour in which a bird flushes fine dirt through the feathers; dustbathing.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود