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cinder Definition

cin·der (sindər)

noun

  1. slag, as from the reduction of metallic ores
  2. a rough piece of solid lava from a volcano
  3. any matter, as coal or wood, burned out or partly burned, but not reduced to ashes
  4. a minute piece of such matter
  5. a coal that is still burning but not flaming
  6. 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

  1. Rare to burn to cinders
  2. to cover with cinders

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cinder Synonyms

cinder

n.

embers, hot coals, soot; see ashes 1, coal 2.

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.

—Donne,John

I scorched my intellect into a cinder of stolidity.

—Carlyle,Jane Baillie ne¤  e Jane Baillie Welsh