dusty

«dusty» in Mova's school dictionary: covered with dust, the dry powder of dirt that collects… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (dusty, dustier, dustiest)

meaning for a pupil

1) Dusty means covered with dust, the dry powder of dirt that collects on things. tree →

2) A dusty road or place is dry with lots of loose dirt in the air. tree →

3) Dusty can describe a dull, greyish colour, like dusty pink. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life shelves, attics and old books get dusty and need wiping; dusty roads in the countryside or outback make clouds when cars pass. In stories a dusty room shows nobody has been there for a long time. In health lessons dust can make people with allergies or asthma sneeze or cough. Phrases: «dusty old books», «a dusty road», «dusty shelves».

examples

• The books in the attic were old and dusty. tree →
• We drove along a dusty road. tree →
• Please wipe the dusty shelves. tree →
• His boots were dusty after the walk. tree →
• The empty house smelled dusty. tree →
• Dusty air makes me sneeze. tree →
• She wore a dusty pink dress. tree →
• Nobody had opened the dusty box for years. tree →
• Two Travellers were walking along a bare and dusty road in the heat of a summer's day. tree →

note

Comparative: dustier, dustiest (y → i). Noun: dust; verb «to dust» oddly means to remove dust (dust the shelves) and also to sprinkle powder (dust a cake with sugar).

In the corpora

• Toad: «The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs! ...
• Telescopes such as ALMA in Chile have photographed dusty discs around young stars where new planets are forming right now.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dusty» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.