slag
slag
Definition
slag (slag)
noun
- the fused refuse or dross separated from a metal in the process of smelting
- lava resembling this
- Chiefly Brit., Slang
- a worthless, contemptible person
- a sexually promiscuous woman
Etymology: < MLowG slagge (> Ger schlacke) < slagen, to strike: for IE base see slay
transitive verb slagged, slag′·ging
- to form into slag
- Chiefly Brit., Slang to criticize, disparage, or insult: often with off
intransitive verb
to form into slag
slag′gy adjective -·gier, -·gi·est
slag
Synonyms
slag
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- do: Still young, don't slag him off yet!
- form: The impurities then float to the top of the metal forming slag.
- include: I think some of the fillers used included slag and ash from iron works and coal fired power stations.
- granulate: Even the cement was produced using powdered ground granulated blast furnace slag ( GGBS ).
Adjective modifier
- molten: A hole is dug into the ground making a channel to allow molten slag to escape.
- fat: Why would I want some fat slag on TV playing with herself with a wine bottle?
- black: Inside the cage were their feathers heaped like a black slag of tar.
- old: The seventeenth century produced a lot of the old slag in the Belfry area.
Modifies a noun
- heap: The slag heaps or pit mounds of closed mines have been put to many new uses.
- wool: For reasons of energy saving, it is expedient to insulate the adsorber with mineral or slag wool, also as contact protection.
- cake: The size of the slag cakes is related to the size of the smelting furnaces, which must have been quite large.
- fragment: Some of the slag fragments have multiple layers that may result from continuous or serial tapping.
- deposit: Chemical analyzes of soil samples indicated elevated levels of arsenic, zinc, tin and copper bound into the slag deposits.
- people: It's not as if you have been going out of your way to slag people off 24/7!
Noun used with modifier
- furnace: Huge amounts of furnace slag were used in building Roman roads.
- blast: Indeed some blast furnace slag is used to make glass and cement.
- copper: The literature review is focused on glass grit and copper slag, but the scope of the work includes other key blasting media.
- iron: How about Iron Age pottery from Saxon ceramics or iron slag from copper working waste?
- steel: To evaluate the temperature effects of BOS steel slag on the soil stabilization process.
- coal: Peasant scavenging for coal with his son on a state-owned coal mine slag heap.
slag Quotes
In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed perfection.
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