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PRONUNCIATION OF DUSTHEAP

dustheap  [ˈdʌsthiːp] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DUSTHEAP

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Dustheap is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DUSTHEAP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of dustheap in the English dictionary

The definition of dustheap in the dictionary is a refuse heap. Other definition of dustheap is the dustheap obscurity or oblivionthe dustheap of history.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DUSTHEAP


aheap
əˈhiːp
ant-heap
ˈæntˌhiːp
asleep
əˈsliːp
cheap
tʃiːp
creep
kriːp
deep
diːp
heap
hiːp
Jeep
dʒiːp
keep
kiːp
leap
liːp
overheap
ˌəʊvəˈhiːp
peep
piːp
reap
riːp
sandheap
ˈsændˌhiːp
scrapheap
ˈskræpˌhiːp
sheep
ʃiːp
sleep
sliːp
steep
stiːp
sweep
swiːp
upheap
ʌpˈhiːp

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DUSTHEAP

dust-bath
dust-to-dust
dust-up
dustbin
dustbin man
dustbin men
dustcart
dustcloth
duster
duster coat
dustier
dustiest
dustily
dustiness
dusting
dusting down
dusting-powder
dustless
dustlike
dustman

WORDS THAT END LIKE DUSTHEAP

compost heap
dirt cheap
dirt-cheap
dung heap
junk heap
manure heap
muck heap
on the cheap
on the scrapheap
overcheap
slag heap
trash heap

Synonyms and antonyms of dustheap in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «dustheap» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DUSTHEAP

Find out the translation of dustheap to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of dustheap from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «dustheap» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

dustheap
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

dustheap
570 millions of speakers

English

dustheap
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

dustheap
380 millions of speakers
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dustheap
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

dustheap
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dustheap
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

dustheap
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dustheap
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Habuk debu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

dustheap
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

dustheap
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

dustheap
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bledug
85 millions of speakers
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dustheap
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

dustheap
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

धूळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dustheap
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

dustheap
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dustheap
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

dustheap
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dustheap
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

dustheap
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

dustheap
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

dustheap
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

dustheap
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of dustheap

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DUSTHEAP»

The term «dustheap» is barely ever used and occupies the 198.477 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DUSTHEAP» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about dustheap

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUSTHEAP»

Discover the use of dustheap in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dustheap and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Histories of the Dustheap: Waste, Material Cultures, Social ...
Garbage, considered both materially and culturally, elicits mixed responses. Ourresponsibility toward the objects we love and then discard is entangled with our responsibilitytoward the systems that make those objects.
Stephanie Foote, Elizabeth Mazzolini, 2012
2
Sunday Reading for the Young
I turned sadly away, and sauntered on till I came to what had been the very outskirts of our village, then a desolate spot given up to brick- making, except the field at the further end, where there was a huge dustheap which received the refuse ...
3
Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for ...
In the early 1990s, a committee for the American Comparative Literature Association argued that comparatists had better move from their narrow literary areas into the larger field of culture study or they would be left on the "dustheap of history" ...
Patrick Colm Hogan, 2003
4
The Month: An Illustrated Magazine of Literature, Science ...
They own the same relation to an English Christian gentleman, as a burnt cinder from a Bermondsey dustheap does to a sparkling diamond. That great philosopher Professor Buntingford, for example, “knows not God,” as he avers. No one ...
5
Swahili Tales, as told by natives of Zanzibar. With an ...
And those days passed, and the houses where he went begging, he was given nothing more. And he went back to the dustheap and scratched like a hen, if he got some grains of 'mtama he took them and ate them, for the space of many days .
Edward STEERE (Missionary Bishop of Central Africa.), 1870
6
Like Walking Into Water: Metaphorical Images of Female ...
... the advantage of the method is that it sweeps up accidentally several stray matters which I should exclude if I hesitated, but which are the diamonds of the dustheap. If Virginia Woolf at the age of 50, when she sits down to build her memoirs ...
Christine Mc Kenna Leigh, 2007
7
Relics of the Buddha
The bodhisattva took the cloth, washed it, and sewed it together under a tree at a spot that became known as Pamsukulasivana ("[The Place of) Sewing-the- Dustheap- Robe"). Thereafter, that was the robe that he wore (Lal., 194-95 = Eng.
John Strong, 2004
8
Wallflowers and witches: women and culture in Australia, ...
"Diamonds. of. the. Dustheap"? Women's. diary. writing. between. the. wars. Katie . Holmes. Virginia Woolf, best known for her novels and her challenges to the literary and cultural forms of her time, was also a prolific diarist and a frequent ...
Maryanne Dever, 1994
9
The Month
An old miser had a pet dustheap in the corner of her room, where she piled up the dust and refuse, and as this was the least likely thing in the room to be touched, she hid her hoard there. Years rolled by and nobody troubled themselves about ...
10
Leaving a trace: on keeping a journal, the art of ...
Diamonds. of. the. Dustheap. The subtlest journal habits I take from Virginia Woolf. Walk before writing. The mind limbers along with the legs. Catch the brain off guard: write when tired. Write in fragments. A journal propped on her knee at tea, ...
Alexandra Johnson, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DUSTHEAP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term dustheap is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Robert R. McGill Administrative Law Blog on Lawyers.com
... central nervous system, then it becomes "structural", and all of the rest may come falling down in a sudden dustheap of crumpled carcasses. «Lawyers.com Blog, Jun 15»
2
Vouchers on the Move: Return to School Segregation?
... that the pipe dream of a free market "utopia," where public schools and democratic school boards were consigned to the dustheap of history, ... «PR Watch, Apr 15»
3
24 Hours in the Past, BBC One
There is a big old dustheap in Our Mutual Friend but he never peers too closely at its contents. Here we found out more. Zöe Lucker scoured ... «The Arts Desk, Apr 15»
4
Ireland's getting ready to forget the real Easter Rising
... with the losers as well as the winner given due consideration; even the poor old Home Rulers may be picked up from the dustheap of history ... «Spectator.co.uk, Apr 15»
5
Andrew Whitaker: Racism rows in UK politics
... language on the immigration issue is not something confined to what Leon Trotsky would have described as “the dustheap of history”. «Scotsman, Mar 15»
6
Possible fixes to health care law if SCOTUS axes subsidies
ObamaCare should be on the dustheap of history. And three-quarters of the states may have these illegal subsidies from HHS struck down. «Fox News, Mar 15»
7
The Greeks Turn the Tables
A proud nation, facing ejection to the dustheap, the dustbin of history. Perhaps it should never have joined the euro. Certainly the reasoning for ... «Greek Reporter, Feb 15»
8
Tips for maintaining your media for eternity and beyond
... with a dedicated AppleWorks user to get a hint of how painful it can be to lose files because their format has been relegated to the dustheap. «Macworld, Jan 15»
9
Don't worry, be snappy: Stop complaining about your digital camera
and then throw them on the dustheap along with our sixteenth-edition Twilight novels. It's entirely possible to approach image organization in ... «Macworld, Aug 14»
10
The cracked-out life of Marion Barry, the original Rob Ford
To hear Barry tell it, one gets the feeling that were it not for him, the city of Washington would be a “Grapes of Wrath” dustheap with no jobs, ... «New York Post, Jun 14»

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