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  Ash may refer to:

Products of fire, incineration or combustion

  • The solid remains of a fire
    Fire

    Fire is the oxidation of a combustion material releasing heat, light, and various Chemical reaction products such as carbon dioxide and water....
  • Incinerator bottom ash
    Incinerator bottom ash

    Incinerator bottom ash is a form of ash produced in incineration facilities. This material is discharged from the moving grate of municipal solid waste incinerators....
    , a form of ash produced in incineration facilities
  • Volcanic ash
    Volcanic ash

    Volcanic ash consists of small tephra, which are bits of pulverized rock and glass created by volcano eruptions, less than in diameter. There are three mechanisms of volcanic ash formation: gas release under decompression causing magmatic eruptions; thermal contraction from chilling on contact with water causing phreatomagmatic eruptions...
    , material ejected from a volcano
  • Ash (analytical chemistry)
    Ash (analytical chemistry)

    In analytical chemistry, ashing is the process of mineralization for preconcentration of trace substances prior to chemical analysis.< Ash is the name given to all non-aqueous residue that remains after a sample is burned, and consist mostly of metal oxides....
    , the compounds that remain after a scientific sample is burned
  • Fly ash
    Fly ash

    Fly ash is one of the residues generated in the combustion of coal. Fly ash is generally captured from the chimneys of Fossil fuel power plant, and is one of two types of ash that jointly are known as coal ash; the other, bottom ash, is removed from the bottom of coal furnaces....
     and bottom ash
    Bottom ash

    Bottom ash refers to the non-combustible constituents of coal with traces of combustibles embedded in forming clinkers and sticking to hot side walls of a coal-burning furnace during its operation....
    , products of coal combustion
  • Wood ash
    Wood ash

    File:Campfire scar 08319.JPGWood ash is the residue powder left after the combustion of wood. Main producers of wood ash are wood industries and power plants....
    , products of wood combustion


Trees and shrubs

  • Ash (tree), Fraxinus, a genus of large trees, originally and most commonly known by this name. The name orginated from their ash coloured bark.
  • Mountain ash, Sorbus
    Sorbus

    Sorbus is a genus of about 100?200 species of trees and shrubs in the subfamily Maloideae of the Rose family Rosaceae. Species of Sorbus are commonly known as whitebeam, rowan, service tree, and Sorbus aucuparia....
    . In Britain the name mountain ash is usually restricted to Sorbus aucuparia
    Sorbus aucuparia

    Sorbus aucuparia , is a species of the genus Sorbus , native to most of Europe except for the far south, and northern Asia. In the south of its range in the Mediterranean region it is confined to high altitudes in mountains....
     while in North America it may be applied to all members of the genus.
  • Prickly Ash. Zanthoxylum
    Zanthoxylum

    Zanthoxylum is a genus of about 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs in the citrus or rue Family , Rutaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical areas worldwide....
    species may be called Prickly ash, especially Zanthoxylum
    Zanthoxylum

    Zanthoxylum is a genus of about 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs in the citrus or rue Family , Rutaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical areas worldwide....
     americanum
    in North America.
  • Eucalyptus species. In Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
    , several
    eucalyptus
    Eucalyptus

    Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of Flowering plant trees in the Myrtus family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia....
    ' species are called ash because they too produce hard, fine-grained timber. The best known of these is the Mountain Ash
    Eucalyptus regnans

    Eucalyptus regnans, known variously by the common names Mountain Ash, Victorian Ash, Swamp Gum, Tasmanian Oak or Stringy Gum, is a species of Eucalyptus native to southeastern Australia, in Tasmania and Victoria ....
    .


Science

  • Soda ash, a common name for sodium carbonate
  • Plasma ashing
    Plasma ashing

    In semiconductor manufacturing plasma ashing is the process of removing the photoresist from an Etching wafer. Using a Plasma source, a monatomic reactive species is generated....
    , a process in semiconductor manufacturing


Media and entertainment

  • Ash (artist)
    Ash (artist)

    Ash also called Victor Ash is originally a street artist from Paris France.He started his artistic carrier as a graffiti writer in the early 80ts and from 1983 to 1986 he also called himself Saho and Ash2....
    , French graffiti artist
  • Ash (band)
    Ash (band)

    Ash are an alternative rock band that formed in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland in 1992. The media originally pegged Ash's music as Britpop when the band first found mainstream success....
    , Northern Irish rock band
  • Ash (ballet)
    Ash (ballet)

    Ash is a ballet made by ]New York City Ballet's balletmaster in chief Peter Martins to Ash by Michael Torke. The premiere took place June 20, 1991, at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts....
     by Peter Martins (1991)
  • Ash (comic), Comic book about a superhero firefighter
  • Ash (director)
    Ash (director)

    Ash Baron-Cohen is an independent, English film-maker known as Ash, who works from frugal budgets. He has a bachelor's degree in experimental psychology from Sussex University, trained as a filmmaker at the Pasadena Art Center....
    , independent filmmaker
  • ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat
    ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat

    ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat is a tactical role-playing game developed by Mistwalker and Racjin and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. It was released on October 4, 2007 in Japan....
    , a video game


Linguistics

  • Æ
    Æ

    ? is a grapheme formed from the letters a and e. Originally a ligature representing a Latin diphthong, it has been promoted to the full status of a letter in the alphabets of many languages....
    , a letter used in Old English texts
  • Near-open front unrounded vowel
    Near-open front unrounded vowel

    The near-open front unrounded vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some Speech communication languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is ...
    , the vowel sound represented by the æ symbol


Companies, organizations and schools

  • Action on Smoking and Health
    Action on Smoking and Health

    Action on Smoking and Health is a Pressure groups which seeks to publicise the health risks associated with tobacco smoking and campaigns for Smoking ban thereon....
    , a lobbying group
  • American School of the Hague
    American School of The Hague

    The American School of The Hague is an American school in Wassenaar, the Netherlands, located on the Rijksstraatweg. Children can go to the school for 13 years, from Pre-Kindergaten to 12th grade....
    , a school in the Netherlands
  • American Society of Hematology
    American Society of Hematology

    About ASH The American Society of Hematology is a professional organization representing hematologists. It was founded in 1958. Its annual meeting is held in December of every year and has attracted nearly 20,000 attendees....
    , an American professional organization
  • Mesa Airlines
    Mesa Airlines

    Mesa Airlines, Inc. is an American regional airline based in Phoenix, Arizona, Arizona, United States. It is a Transport category certificated air carrier operating under air carrier certificate number MASA036A issued on June 29, 1979....
    , ASH in ICAO code
  • Nashua Municipal Airport
    Nashua Municipal Airport

    Nashua Municipal Airport , also known as Boire Field, is a public airport located three miles northwest of the central business district of Nashua, New Hampshire, a city in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, New Hampshire, United States....
    , ASH in IATA code


Names


Surname

  • Brandon Ash
    Brandon Ash

    Brandon Ash is a NASCAR race car driver. He was born in West Covina, California, and he races out of Roseburg, Oregon, Oregon). He drivesthe #02 Dodge in the Sprint Cup Series for his Ash Motorsports....
    , American racing driver
  • Brian Ash
    Brian Ash

    Brian Ash is an American producer and screenwriter.Brian Ash is a writer and producer on Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks . Previously, he produced segments for the second season of Lewis Black's Root of All Evil and was a writer, producer and director on The Super Rumble Mix Show a comedy variety series starring John Withersp...
    , American screenwriter
  • Brian Ash (bibliographer)
    Brian Ash (bibliographer)

    Brian Ash is a British writer, scientific journalist, and editor. He is known for his bibliographies and reference books. In the 1970s he wrote several works on science fiction, including 'Faces of the Future', 'Who's Who in Science Fiction', 'Who's Who in H.G Wells' and 'The Visual Encyclopedia of Science Fiction', the latter title was, in...
    , bibliographer
  • Daniel Ash
    Daniel Ash

    Daniel Ash is a textural guitarist for Bauhaus , Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets , and solo projects....
    , British guitarist
  • Ed Ash
    Ed Ash

    Ed Ash is a well-known West Coast of the United States engine builder. He was born in Oregon, and has a son, Brandon Ash who races in NASCAR's touring divisions. He also owns Brandon's #02 NEXTEL Cup team....
    , American car engine constructor
  • Eric Ash
    Eric Ash

    Sir Eric Albert Ash Order of the British Empire Fellow of the Royal Society Royal Academy of Engineering Institution of Engineering and Technology is a distinguished German-born British electrical engineer and past Rector of Imperial College....
    , British electrical engineer and former Rector of Imperial College
  • Gord Ash
    Gord Ash

    Gordon Ian Ash is vice president and assistant general manager for the Milwaukee Brewers. He was the general manager for the Toronto Blue Jays from 1995 to 2001....
    , baseball manager
  • Haruhiko Ash, singer
  • Isaac Colton Ash
    Isaac Colton Ash

    Isaac Colton Ash was the first person to serve the 14th district of Los Angeles as city councilman when the district was drawn in 1925....
    , California politician
  • John Ash (divine)
    John Ash (divine)

    John Ash was a Baptist minister and author of an English dictionary and grammar books.Ash's dictionary was valuable for the number of obsolete and provincial words contained in it....
     (1724–1779), lexicographer and minister
  • John Ash (writer)
    John Ash (writer)

    John Ash is an expatriate United Kingdom poet and writer.His lifelong interest in Byzantine Empire is a major theme which runs through his poetry, fiction and Travel literature, along with family friends and the three major cities he has lived in....
     (1948 - ), a poet, writer and travel writer
  • Leslie Ash
    Leslie Ash

    Leslie Ash is an English actor, best known for her role in the sitcom Men Behaving Badly. Her book My Life Behaving Badly: The Autobiography was published in 2007....
    , British actress
  • Maie Ash, British stage
    Stage (theatre)

    In theatre, the stage is a designated space for the performance of theatrical productions. The stage serves as a space for actors or performers and a focal point for the members of the audience....
     actress (1888 -- 1923)
  • Marvin Ash
    Marvin Ash

    Marvin Ash was the professional pseudonym used by pianist Marvin E. Ashbaugh .Marvin Ash was a remarkable and under-recorded New Orleans style pianist who actually spent much of his life wanting to visit the Crescent City, making him all that much more remarkable for his playing gifts....
    , pseudonym of the American jazz pianist Marvin Ashbaugh
  • Mary Kay Ash
    Mary Kay Ash

    Mary Kay Ash was an United States businesswoman and founder of Mary Kay, Inc.She was born Mary Kathlyn Wagner in Cypress, Texas, Harris County, Texas, Texas, the daughter of Edward Alexander and Lula Vember Hastings Wagner....
    , American businesswoman
  • Meir Ash
    Meir Ash

    Meir Ash could be either of two Rabbis both known by the abbreviation Maharam Ash :* Meir Eisenstadt, author of Meore Esh and teacher of Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschutz...
    , one of several people including
    • Rabbi Meir Eisenstadt
      Meir Eisenstadt

      Meir ben Izsak Eisenstadt was the author of responsa and other works of rabbinic literature. An authority on Halakha, he was consulted by rabbis from Turkey, Germany and Italy....
    • Rabbi Meir Eisenstaedter
      Meir Eisenstaedter

      Rabbi Meir Eisenstaedter or Meir Ash known as the Maharam Ash . was one of the greatest Talmudists of the nineteenth century. He is best known as author of "Imre Esh" - the collection of his responsa published by his son in 1864....
  • Russell Ash
    Russell Ash

    Russell Ash is the British author of the The Top 10 of Everything series of books, as well as Great Wonders of the World, Incredible Comparisons and many other reference, art and humour titles....
    , British writer
  • Sam Ash
    Sam Ash

    Sam Ash was founded in 1924, and is the largest chain of privately owned stores in the United States that sell musical instruments, electronics, and related supplies....
    , American businessman
  • Timothy Garton Ash
    Timothy Garton Ash

    Timothy Garton Ash Order of St Michael and St George, is the British people author of eight books of political writing or ?history of the present? which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter-century....
    , British academic historian and writer
  • William Ash, Canadian-American pilot


Given name

  • Aishwarya Rai
    Aishwarya Rai

    Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan born 1 November 1973 is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 1994....
    , Indian actress
  • Ash Atalla
    Ash Atalla

    Ash Atalla is an Egyptian television producer responsible for producing several United Kingdom TV series such as The IT Crowd , The Office and Man Stroke Woman....
    , television producer
  • Ash Bowie
    Ash Bowie

    Ash Bowie is an United States musician.In 1990, he formed the band Polvo along with Dave Brylawski, Steve Popson, and Eddie Watkins. Polvo was influential in the then-thriving indie rock scene in the United States....
    , American indie musician
  • Ash (director)
    Ash (director)

    Ash Baron-Cohen is an independent, English film-maker known as Ash, who works from frugal budgets. He has a bachelor's degree in experimental psychology from Sussex University, trained as a filmmaker at the Pasadena Art Center....
    , Ashley Baron-Cohen, film director usually credited as "Ash"
  • Ash (god)
    Ash (god)

    Ash was the ancient Egyptian god of oases, as well as the Vineyards of the western Nile Delta and thus was viewed as a benign deity. Flinders-Petrie in his 1923 expedition to the Saqqara found several references to Ash in Old Kingdom wine jar seals: I am refreshed by this Ash was a common inscription....
    , a hawk-god of the Sahara Desert in Egyptian mythology
  • Ash (wrestler), a Canadian wrestler commonly known as "the Antihero" or "the Canadian Casanova"

Fictional characters
  • Ash Ketchum
    Ash Ketchum

    Ash Ketchum is a Character and one of the main protagonists from the Pok?mon . There are also incarnations of him in a plethora of Pok?mon , of which include Pok?mon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu, Pocket Monsters Zensho, and Ash & Pikachu....
    , the main character of the Pokémon
    Pokémon

    is a media franchise owned by the video game company Nintendo and created by Satoshi Tajiri around 1995. Originally released as a pair of interlinkable Game Boy line Console role-playing game video games, Pok?mon has since become the second most successful and lucrative video game-based media franchise in the world, behind only Nintendo's own...
     anime
  • Ash Williams
    Ash Williams

    Ashley J. "Ash" Williams is the protagonist in the Evil Dead horror film franchise, played by Bruce Campbell, and created by director Sam Raimi....
    , the hero of the Evil Dead film-series
  • Science Officer Ash, the science-officer of the Nostromo in the 1979 film Alien
  • Ash, the phantom guardian of Marona in Phantom Brave
    Phantom Brave

    is a tactical role-playing game for the Sony Computer Entertainment PlayStation 2 video game console developed and published by Nippon Ichi. It was released on January 22, 2004 in video gaming in Japan, on August 31, 2004 in video gaming in North America and on February 4, 2005 in video gaming in Europe....
  • Ash Crimson, the latest main character in the King of Fighters game-series
  • Ash (Supernatural), a recurring character on the Supernatural TV series.
  • Ash (Black Cat) a fictional character from the anime Black Cat
  • Ash, monster from Final Fantasy 9 game, located on "Memoria" (Last game location).
  • Ash, the protagonist of Avalon
  • Ash, a dragon-character in the video-game Kameo: Elements of Power
    Kameo: Elements of Power

    Kameo: Elements of Power is a video game launched for the Microsoft Xbox 360 video game console and developed by Rare beginning circa 2001 for the Nintendo GameCube....
  • Ash, the protagonist of the novel Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
    Mary Gentle

    Mary Rosalyn Gentle is a UK science fiction and fantasy author....
  • Nina Ash, a werewolf from Angel (TV Series)
    Angel (TV series)

    Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer . The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999....
  • Ash (MÄR), a character in the manga and anime series MÄR
  • Ash, a controversial character from Bare Knuckle 3
  • Ash, a controversial main character in Alex Rider
    Alex Rider

    Alex Rider is a series of Spy fiction by English people author Anthony Horowitz about a young spy named Alex Rider . Seven novels have been published to date....
    : Snakehead
  • Ashe, a character in Final Fantasy XII
    List of Final Fantasy XII characters

    The twelfth game of the Final Fantasy series, Square Enix's console role-playing game Final Fantasy XII revolves around the attempt to liberate the kingdom of Dalmasca from the Archadian Empire....


Places


In Australia

  • Ashburton railway station, Melbourne
    Ashburton railway station, Melbourne

    Ashburton is a railway station on the Alamein railway line, Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. It is located between Welfare Parade and Kelvin Grove, Ashburton, Victoria....
    ; station code ASH

In the United Kingdom

  • Ash, Derbyshire
    Ash, Derbyshire

    Ash is a small civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, with a population of 98 . The parish includes scattered hamlets and Ashe Hall....
    , England
  • Ash, Devon
    Ash, Devon

    Ash is a village in Devon, England....
    , England
  • Ash, Surrey
    Ash, Surrey

    Ash is a village and civil parish in the Guildford , Surrey, with a population of 17,549 according to the 2001 census. It is at the far west of the Guildford borough, and the urban development in the parish runs directly into Aldershot, which is on the western side of the River Blackwater, north-east Hampshire, in Hampshire....
    , England
  • Ash (near Salway)
    Ash (near Salway)

    Ash is a hamlet approximately 1 km east of the village of Salway, Dorset, England....
    , Dorset, England
  • Ash (near Stourpaine)
    Ash (near Stourpaine)

    Ash is a Hamlet approximately 1 km north of the village of Stourpaine, Dorset, England....
    , Dorset, England
  • Ash (near Sandwich)
    Ash (near Sandwich)

    Ash is a village in East Kent about three miles west of Sandwich, Kent. Combined with the nearby hamlet of Westmarsh it forms the Parish of Ash-with-Westmarsh, one of the largest in the county....
    , Kent, England
  • Ash-cum-Ridley
    Ash-cum-Ridley

    Ash-cum-Ridley is a civil parish in the Sevenoaks district of Kent, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 7,070....
    , near Sevenoaks, Kent, England
  • Ash (near Taunton), Somerset, England
  • Ash (near Yeovil)
    Ash (near Yeovil)

    Ash is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated from Martock and north-west of Yeovil in the South Somerset district. The village has a population of 616....
    , Somerset, England

In the United States

  • Ash, Oregon
    Ash, Oregon

    Ash is an unincorporated area community in Douglas County, Oregon, Oregon, United States, south of Loon Lake in the Southern Oregon Coast Range....
     in Douglas County, Oregon
  • A community in Brunswick County, North Carolina
    Brunswick County, North Carolina

    Brunswick County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of 2000, the population was 73,143. Its county seat is Bolivia, North Carolina....


Other meanings

  • Ash (god)
    Ash (god)

    Ash was the ancient Egyptian god of oases, as well as the Vineyards of the western Nile Delta and thus was viewed as a benign deity. Flinders-Petrie in his 1923 expedition to the Saqqara found several references to Ash in Old Kingdom wine jar seals: I am refreshed by this Ash was a common inscription....
    , a figure in Egyptian mythology
  • Ash (Aishwarya Rai)
    Aishwarya Rai

    Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan born 1 November 1973 is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 1994....
    , one of the nicknames of Indian actress Aishwarya Rai
    Aishwarya Rai

    Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan born 1 November 1973 is an Indian actress and former Miss World. Before starting her acting career, she worked as a model and gained fame after winning the Miss World title in 1994....
  • Ash railway station
    Ash railway station

    Ash railway station serves the village of Ash, Surrey in Surrey, England. The station is served by South West Trains, who manage the station, and by First Great Western....
    , a rail station near Guildford in the United Kingdom
  • Almquist shell
    Almquist shell

    The Almquist shell was originally Kenneth Almquist's clone of the SVR4-variant of the Bourne shell; it is a fast, small, POSIX-compatible Unix shell designed to replace the Bourne shell in later BSD distributions....
    , a command-line interface for computers
  • Alt.suicide.holiday
    Alt.suicide.holiday

    alt.suicide.holiday is a Usenet newsgroup, now via Google Groups. Its original purpose was to discuss the relationship between suicide rates and holiday seasons....
    , a Usenet newsgroup
  • American Shorthair
    American Shorthair

    The American Shorthair is the 8th most popular breed of cat in the United States according the Cat Fancier's Association for 2006-2007. The breed is believed to be descended from England cats brought to North America by early British settlers to protect valuable cargo from mice and rats....
    , a breed of cat
  • Bisnovat R-4
    Bisnovat R-4

    The Bisnovat R-4 was an early Soviet Union long-range air-to-air missile, initially designated K-80 or R-80....
    , a missile with the NATO reporting name ASH
  • Ash Mountain
    Ash Mountain

    Ash Mountain may refer to:* Ash Mountain in British Columbia, Canada* Ash Mountain in Maine, USA* Ash Mountain in Montana, USA* Ash Mountain in New Mexico, USA...
    , several mountains by this name in Canada and the USA
  • Ash (Persian food)
    Ash (Persian food)

    Ash , is part of Iranian cuisine, similar to soup but thicker, which is usually served hot. Depending on the type of the ash, it could contain different types of grain, legumes , vegetables, herbs , onions, oil, meat, garlic, reshteh and spices, such as salt, Black pepper, turmeric, saffron, etc....


See also

  • Ashe
    Ashe

    Ashe is a surname.Ashe may also refer to:*Ashe, the energy of creation in Yoruba mythology*Ashe, Hampshire, a village in Hampshire, England...
  • Ashes
    Ashes

    Ashes may refer to:* The Ashes, the Test cricket series between England and Australia* The Ashes , the rugby league Test series between Great Britain and Australia...
  • Ashley
    Ashley

    Ashley may refer to:...