cinder
Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or…Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.
» The cinders are still smoking.
Meaning
4 sensesPartially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.
Asche
зола́zolá, пе́пелpépel
An ember.
Slag from a metal furnace.
Schlacke, Zunder
шлакšlak, ока́линаokálina
(colloquial, dated)Any strong stimulant added to tea, soda water, etc.
- a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
Examples
7 sentencesThe cinders are still smoking.
Where did you buy cinder blocks?
Ziri surrounded the medlar tree with cinder blocks.
Tom felt as if a cinder block was dropped on his head.
The cinders were still smoking.
ruЗола ещё дымилась.
deDie Asche rauchte noch.
Translations
8 languagesBy meaning 2
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Origin
From Middle English cyndyr, syndir, synder, sinder, from Old English sinder (“cinder, drosFrom Middle English cyndyr, syndir, synder, sinder, from Old English sinder (“cinder, dross, slag, scoria, dross of iron, impurity of metal”), from Proto-West Germanic *sindr, from Proto-Germanic *sindrą, *sindraz (“dross, cinder, slag”), from Proto-Indo-European *sendʰro- (“coagulating fluid, liquid slag, scale, cinder”). Cognate with Scots sinder (“ember, cinder”), West Frisian sindel, sintel (“cinder, slag”), Dutch sintel (“cinder, ember, slag”), Middle Low German sinder, sinter (“cinder, slag”), German Sinter (“dross of iron, scale”), Danish sinder (“spark of ignited iron, cinder”), Swedish sinder (“slag or dross from a forge”), Icelandic sindur (“scoring”), Old Church Slavonic сѧдра (sędra, “lime cinder, gypsum”). Spelling (c- for s-) influenced by unrelated French cendre (“ashes”). Doublet of sinter.
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Forms
plural: cindersSynonyms
1 synonyms- a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire:clinker