CINDER - 10 definitions found
cinder n 1: a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire [syn: cinder, clinker] cinder - pufac cinder crined Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) cinder noun Etymology: Middle English sinder, from Old English; akin to Old High German sintar dross, slag, Serbian & Croatian sedra calcium carbonate Date: before 12th century 1. the slag from a metal furnace ; dross 2. a. plural ashes b. a fragment of ash 3. a. a partly burned combustible in which fire is extinct b. a hot coal without flame c. a partly burned coal capable of further burning without flame 4. a fragment of lava from an erupting volcano • cindery adjective Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary cinder ˈsɪndə n. a the residue of coal or wood etc. that has stopped giving off flames but still has combustible matter in it. b slag. c (in pl.) ashes. øburnt to a cinder made useless by burning. øøcindery adj. [OE sinder, assim. to the unconnected F cendre and L cinis ashes] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Slag \Slag\, n. (Metal.) A product of smelting, containing, mostly as silicates, the substances not sought to be produced as matte or metal, and having a lower specific gravity than the latter; -- called also, esp. in iron smelting, cinder. The slag of iron blast furnaces is essentially silicate of calcium, magnesium, and aluminium; that of lead and copper smelting furnaces contains iron. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Cinder \Cin"der\ (s[i^]n"d[~e]r), n. [AS. sinder slag, dross; akin to Icel. sindr dross, Sw. sinder, G. sinter, D. sintel; perh. influenced by F. cendre ashes, fr. L. cinis. Cf. Sinter.] 1. Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct. 2. A hot coal without flame; an ember. --Swift. 3. A scale thrown off in forging metal. 4. The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano. Cinder frame, a framework of wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders. Cinder notch (Metal.), the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 47 Moby Thesaurus words for "cinder": alluvion, alluvium, ash, ashes, brand, burning ember, calx, carbon, charcoal, clinker, coal, coke, coom, deposition, deposits, diluvium, draff, dregs, dross, ember, feces, firebrand, froth, fume, grounds, lava, lees, live coal, loess, moraine, offscum, precipitate, precipitation, reek, scoria, scum, sediment, settlings, silt, sinter, slag, smoke, smudge, smut, soot, sublimate, sullage |
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