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cin⋅der

  [sin-der]
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–noun
1. a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
2. cinders,
a. any residue of combustion; ashes.
b. Geology. coarse scoriae erupted by volcanoes.
3. a live, flameless coal; ember.
4. Metallurgy.
a. slag (def. 1).
b. a mixture of ashes and slag.
–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

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.
Origin:
1545–55; < MLG slagge; c. G Schlacke dross, slag; see slack 2

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.  
    1. A burned or partly burned substance, such as coal, that is not reduced to ashes but is incapable of further combustion.
    2. A partly charred substance that can burn further but without flame.
  2. cinders Ashes.
  3. cinders Geology See scoria.
  4. Metallurgy See scoria.
  5. Slag from a metal furnace.
tr.v.   cin·dered, cin·der·ing, cin·ders
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.
sco·ri·a   (skôr'ē-ə, skōr'-)   
n.   pl. sco·ri·ae (skôr'ē-ē', skōr'-)
  1. Geology Porous cinderlike fragments of dark lava. Also called cinders, slag.
  2. Metallurgy The refuse of a smelted metal or ore; slag. Also called cinder.

[Middle English, dross, from Latin scōria, from Greek skōriā, from skōr, excrement, dung; see sker-3 in Indo-European roots.]
sco'ri·a'ceous (-ā'shəs) 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
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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.

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