Cinder

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A burned or partly burned substance, such as coal, that is not reduced to ashes but is incapable of further combustion.
  • n. A partly charred substance that can burn further but without flame.
  • n. Ashes.
  • n. Geology See scoria.
  • n. Metallurgy See scoria.
  • n. Slag from a metal furnace.
  • v. To burn or reduce to cinders.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.
  • n. An ember.
  • n. Slag from a metal furnace.
  • v. to reduce something to cinders
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.
  • n. A hot coal without flame; an ember.
  • n. A scale thrown off in forging metal.
  • n. The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A piece or mass of any substance that has been partially consumed or calcined by heat and then quenched: as, the cinder of a forge.
  • n. A small live coal among ashes; an ember.
  • n. pl. The mass of ashes, with small fragments of unconsumed coal interspersed, which remains after imperfect combustion, or after a fire has gone out. (See coke.)
  • n. plural In geology, coarse ash or scoriæ thrown out of volcanos. (See ash.) This material when solidified becomes tuff or tufa.
  • n. One of the scales thrown off by iron when it is worked by the blacksmith.
  • n. In metallurgy, slag, especially that produced in making pig-iron in the blast-furnace.
  • n. Any strong liquor, as brandy, whisky, sherry, etc., mixed with a weaker beverage, as soda-water, lemonade, water, etc., to fortify it; a “stick.”
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
  • Verb Form
    cindered    cindering    cinders   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fragment   
    Cross Reference
    slag    buck-shot cinder    Cinderella    scoria   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    ember    breeze    coaly    scorify   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    hinder    tinder    winder   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    slag    rubble    lava    gravel    ash    soot    sawdust    charcoal    grit    dirt