cinder
cinder
Definition
cin·der (sin′dər)
noun
- slag, as from the reduction of metallic ores
- a rough piece of solid lava from a volcano
- any matter, as coal or wood, burned out or partly burned, but not reduced to ashes
- a minute piece of such matter
- a coal that is still burning but not flaming
- ashes from coal or wood
Etymology: ME & OE sinder, dross of iron, slag < IE base *sendhro-, coagulating fluid > Ger sinter, dross of iron, stalactite, sintern, to trickle, coagulate, Czech śadra, gypsum
transitive verb
- Rare to burn to cinders
- to cover with cinders
cinder
Synonyms
cinder
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- make: Now YOU, sir you'd make cinders respect themselves.
- cool: Some stars simply fade like cooling cinders when they have exhausted all the thermonuclear reactions which had made them shine through their lifetime.
Adjective modifier
- hot: Can also be grilled under a hot grill, turning from time to time, or amidst the hot cinders of an open fire.
- red: First landing " ) there is a stretch of red cinders where the houses stood.
- black: There was burnt brick with black cinders and ashes on top.
- few: Birch and pine roar away, hot and fast, but produce remarkably few cinders.
- red-hot: When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour.
- glowing: HENGIST The consumer has been here; she's gone, she's lost, In glowing cinders now lie all my joys!
Modifies a noun
- toffee: Well, here's one answer: Cinder toffee.
- cone: On deeper horizons noise sources are displaced under a chain of cinder cones by wide strip.
- heap: Superintendent HEWITT in reply to the Bench said the cinder heap was 50 or 60 yards from where the public were allowed to go.
- block: It can be built on open ground or in a bin made of cinder blocks, rough boards, or wire fence.
- track: Indeed, soon we were out of town on a cinder track kind of affair heading toward the Lakes.
- path: Mind you, it used to be a cinder path many year ago ' .
Noun used with modifier
- burning: Great is its seething, like a burning cinder, a grievous thing of an ashy color.
cinder Quotes
She, she is dead; she's dead; when thou know'st this, Thou know'st how dry a cinder this world is.
I scorched my intellect into a cinder of stolidity.
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