dust

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ fine

▪ airborne

▪ radioactive

▪ house, household

▪ desert (esp. AmE)

▪ cosmic, moon

▪ brick (esp. BrE), chalk, coal, gold, etc.

▪ fairy, magic, pixie (esp. AmE)

… OF DUST

▪ cloud, layer

▪

The tractor came up the track in a cloud of dust.

▪

There was a layer of fine dust on the table.

▪ particle, speck

▪

Remove any particles of dust on the surface of the paint.

▪

microscopic specks of dust

VERB + DUST

▪ collect, gather

▪

Her chess set lay on a shelf gathering dust.

▪ be covered in, be covered with

▪ brush, remove, shake, sweep, sweep up, wipe

▪

He brushed the dust off his clothes.

▪

She shook the dust from her hair.

▪ blow

▪

The wind was blowing dust through the streets of the city.

DUST + VERB

▪ lie

▪

The dust now lay in a thick layer on her piano.

▪ coat sth, cover sth

▪

Dust covered the whole shelf.

▪ settle

▪

The dust settled on everything in the kitchen.

▪

I waited for the dust to settle from her resignation before talking to her about it. (figurative)

▪ blow, float, fly, swirl

▪

Dust swirled around them like a misty cloud.

▪ fall, rise

▪ fill sth

▪

He started coughing as dust filled his lungs.

▪ clear

▪

The dust cleared and Hari could see a tiger.

DUST + NOUN

▪ cloud

▪ grain, mote (old-fashioned), particle

▪ storm

▪ ball, bunny (= a mass of dust and small pieces of hair, thread, etc.) (informal) (both AmE)

▪ devil (= a small column of dust over land, caused by the wind)

▪ bowl

▪ mite

▪

a house dust mite

▪ cover (esp. AmE), sheet (BrE) (= for furniture, etc.)

▪ cover (esp. AmE), jacket (= of a book)

▪ mask

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verb

Dust is used with these nouns as the object: ↑furniture