ASH

'Ash' may refer to:

Contents

In general English use

In the sciences

In the humanities

Media

Music

Linguistics

People and figures

Fictional characters

Places

In the United Kingdom

In the United States

See also

In general English use

★ Ash, the incombustible solid remains of a fire, the residual debris produced by incineration, the incombustible remnant produced by a cigarette, cigar, or pipe.

★ Ashes, the remains of a cadaver after cremation.

★ Volcanic ash, rocky powder material ejected from a volcano

★ Fly ash and bottom ash, coal-combustion products

★ Ash tree, any tree of the genus ''Fraxinus''

★ Mountain ash, any of a set of various trees generally not in the ''Fraxinus'' genus

In the sciences

★ Ash (analytical chemistry), one of the components in the proximate analysis of biological materials, consisting mainly of carbonates and bicarbonates of metals

★ Soda ash, a common name for sodium carbonate

In the humanities

Media

★ Ash (comic), created by Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti, published by Event Comics

Music

★ Ash (band), a Northern Irish rock-band

Linguistics

★ Æ, a letter used in Old English texts and commonly called "ash"

★ near-open front unrounded vowel, the sound that æ (lowercase ash) corresponds to in the International Phonetic Alphabet

People and figures

★ Aishwarya Rai, actress from India, popularly known by her nickname: "Ash"

★ Ash Atalla, television producer

★ Ash (director), Ashley Baron-Cohen, film director usually credited as "Ash"

★ Ash (band), Northern Irish band

★ Ash (god), 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 Williams, the hero of the ''Evil Dead'' film-series

★ Ash Ketchum, the main character of the Pokémon anime

★ Science Officer Ash, the science-officer of the ''Nostromo'' in the 1979 film ''Alien''

★ Ash, the phantom guardian of Marona in Phantom Brave

★ Ash Crimson, the latest main character in the ''King of Fighters'' game-series

★ Ash (Supernatural), a recurring character on the Supernatural (TV series).

★ Ashe, a character in ''Final Fantasy XII''

★ 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 ''""

★ Ash, the protagonist of the novel ''Ash: A Secret History'' by Mary Gentle

★ Ash Upton, a protagonist of the webcomic ''Misfile''

★ Ash (pro wrestler) based out of Toronto, Ont. Canada, Wrestles all over Canada, USA and Mexico

★ Ashe Corven/The Crow 2 city of angels (Vincent Perez)

Places

In the United Kingdom

The towns and villages named Ash take their name from the tree, whose name goes back to the Old English æsc. [1]

★ Ash-cum-Ridley, near Sevenoaks, Kent, England

★ Ash (near Sandwich), Kent, England

★ Ash, Derbyshire, England

★ Ash (near Taunton), Somerset, England

★ Ash (near Yeovil), Somerset, England

★ Ash, Surrey, England

★ Ash (near Salway), Dorset, England

★ Ash (near Stourpaine), Dorset, England

★ Ash, Devon, England

In the United States

★ Ash, Texas in Houston County, Texas

★ Ash, Missouri in Monroe County, Missouri

★ Ash, North Carolina in Brunswick County, North Carolina

★ Ash, Ohio in Licking County, Ohio

★ Ash, Washington in Walla Walla County, Washington

★ Ash, Oregon in Douglas County, Oregon

★ Ash, West Virginia in Mason County, West Virginia

★ Ash, Georgia in Paulding County, Georgia
==As "ASH" acronym==

★ Almquist shell (ash), a command-line interface for computers running some variants of the Unix operating system

★ Alt.suicide.holiday, a Usenet newsgroup for people contemplating suicide

★ Ash railway station (National Rail code: ASH), a rail station near Guildford, United Kingdom

★ Ash or ASH, a breed of cat called the American Shorthair

★ Action on Smoking and Health, one of various organizations using this name world-wide and campaigning to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco

★ American Society of Hematology: http://www.hematology.org

★ , a tactical role-playing game for the Nintendo DS

★ Active Session History, an Oracle database subsystem, introduced at version 10g for tuning and diagnostics

★ ASH, the ICAO code for Mesa Airlines

★ ASH, the NATO reporting name of the Bisnovat R-4 air-to-air missile

★ ASH, the airport code for Boire Field in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA

★ The American School of the Hague

★ Averaged Shifted Histogram

See also

★ Ash (surname)

★ Ash Wednesday

★ Ashe

★ Ashes

★ Ashley ("Ash" for short)