Ash (disambiguation)

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Ash is the solid remains of fire.

Ash may also refer to:

Trees and shrubs

• Fraxinus, the ash trees, a genus of flowering plants in the olive and lilac family
• Mountain ash, a name used for several trees, none of immediate relation
• Zanthoxylum (Prickly ash), genus of about 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs in the citrus or rue family, Rutaceae

Linguistics

• Æ, a letter used in Old English texts
  • Near-open front unrounded vowel, the vowel sound which the æ symbol represents
• ash, ISO 693-3 code for the Tequiraca language

People

• Ash (name) various people
• Ash (artist) (born 1968), French graffiti artist
• Ash, the professional name of independent filmmaker Ash Baron-Cohen (born 1967)

Books

• Ash, novel by James Herbert
• Ash (Lo novel), a 2009 LGBTQ young adult novel by Malinda Lo
• Ash: A Secret History, a 2000 fantasy novel by Mary Gentle
• ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat, a 2007 video game
• Ash (comics), a comic series about a superhero firefighter

Entertainment

• Ash (Alien), the android antagonist in the film Alien (1979)
• Ash Crimson, a character in The King of Fighters game series
• Ash Ketchum, the protagonist from the Pokémon animated series
• Ash Williams, the protagonist from the Evil Dead film series
• Ash (band), a rock band from Northern Ireland
• Ash (ballet), by Peter Martins (1991)

Organizations and schools

• Action on Smoking and Health, an anti-smoking charity
• American School of The Hague, a school in the Netherlands
• American Society of Hematology, an American professional organization
• A.s.h, abbreviation for Alt.suicide.holiday, a Usenet newsgroup

Places

United Kingdom

• Ash, Derbyshire, England
• Ash, Devon, England
• Ash, Dover, Kent, England
• Ash (near Salway), Dorset, England
• Ash (near Stourpaine), Dorset, England
• Ash (near Taunton), Somerset, England
• Ash, Oxfordshire, England
• Ash, Sevenoaks, Kent, England
  • Parish Ash-cum-Ridley
• Ash, South Somerset, England
• Ash, Surrey, England
• Ash, Braunton, a historic estate listed in the Domesday Book
• Ash, Musbury, a historic estate

United States

• Ash, California in Madera County, California
• Atascadero State Hospital in Central California
• Ash, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Ash, Oregon in Douglas County, Oregon
• Ash, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Ash, North Carolina, Brunswick County, North Carolina
• Ash, Texas, an unincorporated community

Transport

• ASH, National Rail code for Ash railway station, in Surrey, England
• ASH, station code for Ashburton railway station, Melbourne, Australia
• ASH, ICAO code for Mesa Airlines
• ASH, IATA code for Nashua Municipal Airport

Science and technology

• Almquist shell, a command-line interface for computers
• Plasma ashing, a process in semiconductor manufacturing
• Potash, a common name for potassium carbonate
• Soda ash, a common name for sodium carbonate
• Volcanic ash, material ejected from the top of a volcano
• Ash (analytical chemistry)

Other uses

• Almquist shell, A lightweight Unix shell originally written by Kenneth Almquist in the late 1980s
• Āsh, in Persian cuisine, a dish that is similar to soup but thicker, which is usually served hot
• Ash (deity), the ancient Egyptian god of oases
• AA-5 Ash, NATO reporting name for the Bisnovat (later Molniya) R-4, an early Soviet long-range air-to-air missile

See also

• Ash Mountain (disambiguation), several mountains by this name in Canada and the USA
• Ash Wednesday, Christian religious holiday
• Ash Thursday, Icelandic volcanic events in 2010
• Ashe (disambiguation)
• Ashes (disambiguation)
• Ashley (disambiguation)