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cin⋅der

[sin-der]
–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


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


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.

  1. cinders Ashes.

  2. cinders Geology See scoria.

  3. Metallurgy See scoria.

  4. 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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Word Origin & History

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.

slag 
1552, from M.L.G. slagge (Ger. Schlacke) "splinter flying off when metal is struck," related to O.H.G. slahan "to strike, slay" (see slay). Verbal slang meaning "denigrate" is from 1971, from noun sense of "worthless person" (1788).
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slag   (slāg)  Pronunciation Key 
The vitreous mass left as a residue by the smelting of metallic ore. It consists mostly of the siliceous and aluminous impurities from the iron ore.
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Idioms & Phrases

cinder

see burned to a cinder.

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