Difference between dust and nebula
Definitions
noun
- free microscopic particles of solid material
- fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air
- the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
verb
- remove the dust from
- distribute loosely
- rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape
- cover with a light dusting of a substance
Examples
Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails.
A damning indictment for a Paul Bartel film, Lust in the Dust is found guilty of being bland and lame.
‘In the absence of those assurances, we will have no choice but to ballot for industrial action,’ he said.
Definitions
noun
- a medicinal liquid preparation intended for use in an atomizer
- an immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space
- (pathology) a faint cloudy spot on the cornea
- cloudiness of the urine
Examples
The crab nebula is the remnant from a supernova explosion 1054.
My research has largely been in the chemistry of how the particular components of chondrites, very primitive meteorites, actually formed in the solar nebula.
She felt her mind, her spirit, her flesh dissolving into a nebula of pure ecstasy burning across the blackness of outer space.
