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cin⋅der
[sin-der]
–noun
| 1. | a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc. |
| 2. | cinders,
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| 3. | a live, flameless coal; ember. |
| 4. | Metallurgy.
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–verb (used with object)
| 5. | to spread cinders on: The highway department salted and cindered the icy roads. |
| 6. | Archaic. to reduce to cinders. |
–verb (used without object)
| 7. | to spread cinders on a surface, as a road or sidewalk: My neighbor began cindering as soon as the first snowflake fell. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME synder, OE sinder slag; c. G Sinter, ON sindr; c- (for s-) < F cendre ashes
bef. 900; ME synder, OE sinder slag; c. G Sinter, ON sindr; c- (for s-) < F cendre ashes

Related forms:
cin⋅der⋅y, cin⋅der⋅ous, adjective
cin⋅der⋅like, adjective
slag
1 [slag]
noun, verb, slagged, slag⋅ging.–noun
| 1. | Also called cinder. the more or less completely fused and vitrified matter separated during the reduction of a metal from its ore. |
| 2. | the scoria from a volcano. |
| 3. | waste left over after the re-sorting of coal. |
–verb (used with object)
| 4. | to convert into slag. |
| 5. | Metallurgy. to remove slag from (a steel bath). |
–verb (used without object)
| 6. | to form slag; become a slaglike mass. |
Related forms:
slag⋅a⋅ble, adjective
slag⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
slagless, adjective
slag⋅less⋅ness, noun
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cin·der (sĭn'dər) n.
To burn or reduce to cinders. [Alteration (influenced by Old French cendre, ashes) of Middle English sinder, from Old English, slag, dross.] cin'der·y adj. |
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Cinder
Cin"der\ (s[i^]n"d[~e]r), n. [AS. sinder slag, dross; akin to Icel. sindr dross, Sw. sinder, G. sinter, D. sintel; perh. influenced by F. cendre ashes, fr. L. cinis. Cf. Sinter.]1. Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct. 2. A hot coal without flame; an ember. --Swift. 3. A scale thrown off in forging metal. 4. The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano. Cinder frame, a framework of wire in front of the tubes of a locomotive, to arrest the escape of cinders. Cinder notch (Metal.), the opening in a blast furnace, through which melted cinder flows out.
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Language Translation for : Cinder
Spanish:
ceniza,
German:
die Asche,
Japanese:
燃えがら
cinder
O.E. sinder "dross of iron, slag," from P.Gmc. *sindran, from PIE base *sendhro- "coagulating fluid." Initial s- changed to c- under infl. of Fr. cendre.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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cinder
see burned to a cinder.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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