Ash

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Contents 1 As an acronym (often in upper-case as "ASH") 2 In the humanities 2.1 Music 2.2 Linguistics 2.3 Media 3 People and figures 3.1 Fictional characters 4 Places 4.1 In the United Kingdom 4.2 In the United States 5 See also

Ash may refer to:

• Ash (analytical chemistry), one of the components in the proximate analysis of biological materials, consisting mainly of carbonates and bicarbonates of metals
• Ash tree, any tree of the genus Fraxinus
• Mountain ash, any of a set of various trees generally not in the Fraxinus genus

[edit] As an acronym (often in upper-case as "ASH")

• 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
• ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat, 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, a drink consisting of Jim beam, one ice cube with a dash of diet coke, created by Ashley Miles Dennis
• 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

[edit] In the humanities

[edit] Music

• Ash (band), a Northern Ireland rock-band

[edit] 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

• Still used in the scandinavian languages.

[edit] Media

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

[edit] People and figures

• Aishwarya Rai, actress from India, popularly known by her nickname: "Ash"
• Ash (director), Ashley Baron-Cohen, film director usually credited as "Ash"
• Ash (band), Northern Irish band
• Ash (designer), Ashley Miles Dennis, designer and resident of Houghton on the Hill. Known as Ash.
• 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"

[edit] Fictional characters

• Ash Williams, the hero of the Evil Dead film-series
• Ash Ketchum, the main character of the Pokémon anime
• Ash, the phantom guardian of Marona in Phantom Brave
• Science Officer Ash, the science-officer of the Nostromo in the 1979 film Alien
• Ash Crimson, the latest main character in the King of Fighters game-series
• Ashe, a character in Final Fantasy XII
• Ash, the protagonist of Avalon
• Ash, a dragon-character in the video-game Kameo: Elements of Power""
• Ash, the protagonist of the novel Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle
• Ash Upton, a protagonist of the comic Misfile

[edit] Places

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• Ash (surname)
• Ash Wednesday
• Ashe
• Ashes
• Ashley ("Ash" for short)