What is the meaning of the word "dust"?

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  1. cover with a light dusting of a substance copy to clipboard verb
    • dust the bread with flour copy to clipboard
  2. fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air copy to clipboard noun
    • the furniture was covered with dust copy to clipboard
  3. free microscopic particles of solid material copy to clipboard noun
    • astronomers say that the empty space between planets actually contains measurable amounts of dust copy to clipboard
  4. remove the dust from copy to clipboard verb
    • dust the cabinets copy to clipboard
  5. rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape copy to clipboard verb
    • The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image copy to clipboard

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