DUSTING meaning: Removing fine particles from surfaces

We found 25 dictionaries that define the word dusting:

General (15 matching dictionaries)

dusting: Merriam-Webster
dusting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
dusting: Collins English Dictionary
dusting: Vocabulary.com
Dusting, dusting: Wordnik
dusting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
dusting: Wiktionary
dusting: Infoplease Dictionary
Dusting, dusting: Dictionary.com
dusting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Dusting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Dusting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
Dusting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
dusting: FreeDictionary.org
dusting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

dusting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

dusting: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

dusting: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)

dusting, dusting: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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Dusting: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
dusting: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dusting)

▸ noun:  (countable) A light snowfall.
▸ noun:  (countable) A light covering of something.
▸ noun:  The act of removing dust from the furniture, as a household chore.
▸ noun:  (colloquial, countable) A beating.
▸ noun:  A maintenance or comfort behaviour in which a bird flushes fine dirt through the feathers; dustbathing.

Similar:

rubble, debris, junk, sprinkle, dot, scatter, disperse, detritus, snowing, flurrying, more...

Opposite:

cleaning, polishing, shining, wiping

Types:

dry dusting, wet dusting, feather dusting, microfiber dusting, chemical dusting, more...

Phrases:

dusting off, dusting powder, crop dusting, dusting powders, dusting down, more...

Adjectives:

light, fine, good, little, thorough, thin, daily, dry, faint, crop, slight

Colors:

beige, taupe, ecru, sand, khaki, more...