dross

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worthless or dangerous material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water"

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noun

worthless or dangerous material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water"

noun

the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals

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noun

worthless or dangerous material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water"

noun

the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals

Example sentences

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It's all gold and no dross, so is pretty damn credible, and very possibly legal.

I can see EA wanting their AAA titles to be listed on a special shelf away from all of the dross.

The amount of dross one has to wade through on the internet to find something worth the reading can be huge.

This post applies to the 5% of dross European startups who think the grass is greener in San Francisco.

I guess there's a lot of shovel-ware 99p dross in there, but still, it'd odd to say that Amazon is not making much money on Kindle.

But I can tell the symbols aren't english, or any other language I learned before my mind closed, so I can tell it's dross.

But I wouldn't say his book is trying to separate the dross of ridiculous belief from the gold of "true" science or philosophy.

Personally, I think this will become a Mechanical Turk style wasteland full of people charging < $1/hr and churning out dross.

He is more like a person who likes cupcakes from exclusively one cupcake company and thinks cupcakes made by anybody else are dross.

Though the title sounds similar to modern yellow-jacketed dross, this book was published in 1958 and the ‘basics’ go down to vacuum-tube circuits for arithmetic and control.

It's honestly hard to tell, because behind the SEO-dross and random attacks on established, already-high-performance tools, there aren't many details at all.

Even the javascript community seems to tacitly admit that Javascript is a bit of diamond amongst a whole lot of dross; hence CoffeeScript and books like "Javascript: The Good Parts".

At the end of life we carefully dispose of it to recyclers, along with our other lead dross and tin / copper snippings" but people will tend to say "we don't waste anything" and you can ask them "so, you re-use that paste?

The video owner could pick a break-point when editing so the more pro channels could properly cut to an ad-break, and the viewers could could set through the dross to find the one without the cheesy music and graphic overlays or terrible quality.