cinder

[ sin-der ]

/ ˈsɪn dər /

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noun

a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.

cinders,

any residue of combustion; ashes.
Geology. coarse scoriae erupted by volcanoes.

a live, flameless coal; ember.

Metallurgy.

slag¹ (def. 1).
a mixture of ashes and slag.

verb (used with object)

to spread cinders on: The highway department salted and cindered the icy roads.

Archaic. to reduce to cinders.

verb (used without object)

to spread cinders on a surface, as a road or sidewalk: My neighbor began cindering as soon as the first snowflake fell.

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Origin of cinder

before 900; Middle English synder,Old English sinder slag; cognate with German Sinter,Old Norse sindr; c- (for s-) <French cendre ashes

OTHER WORDS FROM cinder

cin·der·y, cin·der·ous, adjectivecin·der·like, adjective

Words nearby cinder

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How to use cinder in a sentence

Once you’ve done that, he recommends placing the bird skin-side down on the grill over low-medium heat and laying something heavy—a brick or cinder block or cast iron pan—on top.
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External hard drives have long been associated with large brick-like monsters that weigh down the corners of your workspace like cinder blocks.
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He and his wife and children shared a cinder-block house with a roof made of sheet metal and a dirt floor.
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Today, one in five Cariocas, as Rio residents are known, live in shantytowns, piled high with raw brick and cinder-block homes.
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The three of them shared a cinder-block shack on the beach in Puerto Rico.
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The story opens with an appearance from the Brothers Grimm, asking an elderly woman to verify the story of a cinder girl.
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At that moment, three or four shots rang out almost simultaneously, echoing throughout the cinder block building.
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Doe grow on trees, or sea to shoore of sandie cinder heaues.
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An increase in local construction has resulted in an increase in the production of cinder blocks and other building materials.
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A cinder stung her face, and when she lifted her hand to the spot, she saw that her glove was black with grime.
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They says his voice is like thunder, an' lightnin' shoots fr'm his eyes that wud shrivel th' likes iv ye an' me to a cinder.'
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One of these was a rather firm, crisp cinder, and had been a blue-print of a drawing.
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British Dictionary definitions for cinder

cinder

/ (ˈsɪndə) /

noun

a piece of incombustible material left after the combustion of coal, coke, etc; clinker

a piece of charred material that burns without flames; ember

Also called: sinter any solid waste from smelting or refining

(plural) fragments of volcanic lava; scoriae

verb

(tr) rare to burn to cinders

Derived forms of cinder

cindery, adjective

Word Origin for cinder

Old English sinder; related to Old Norse sindr, Old High German sintar, Old Slavonic sedra stalactite

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cinder

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