dusting — Английский словарь

Существительное

1. A light snowfall.

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое

   Примеры

   The rooves are covered with a dusting of snow.

2. A light covering of something.

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое

   Примеры

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

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

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое

   Примеры

   Tuesday is the day when I do the dusting.

   Другие примеры (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.

   Употребление

   • разговорное
   • исчисляемое

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

   Употребление

   • исчисляемое
   • неисчисляемое