dregs/dross
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 2:44 pm
I have a question:
Though both of these words are mostly the same, I have wondered what difference there is, based on the fact that dregs sink and dross rises-if that makes sense to anyone else...
Thanks for any thoughts,
Sardith
"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity." ~George MacDonald, Scottish author, poet and Christian minister, (1824-1905)~
dregs: (Noun)
1. The remnants of a liquid left in a container, together with any sediment or grounds.
2. The most worthless part or parts of something.
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“I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine /and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so /and now the dross is coming.” ~Lord Byron, English Romantic poet and satirist, (1788-1824)~
dross: (Noun)
1. Something regarded as worthless; rubbish.
2. Foreign matter, dregs, or mineral waste, in particular scum formed on the surface of molten metal.
Though both of these words are mostly the same, I have wondered what difference there is, based on the fact that dregs sink and dross rises-if that makes sense to anyone else...
Thanks for any thoughts,
Sardith
"It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity." ~George MacDonald, Scottish author, poet and Christian minister, (1824-1905)~
dregs: (Noun)
1. The remnants of a liquid left in a container, together with any sediment or grounds.
2. The most worthless part or parts of something.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
“I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine /and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so /and now the dross is coming.” ~Lord Byron, English Romantic poet and satirist, (1788-1824)~
dross: (Noun)
1. Something regarded as worthless; rubbish.
2. Foreign matter, dregs, or mineral waste, in particular scum formed on the surface of molten metal.