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ALL meanings of cinder

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  • noun cinder a piece of incombustible material left after the combustion of coal, coke, etc; clinker 3
  • noun cinder a piece of charred material that burns without flames; ember 3
  • noun cinder any solid waste from smelting or refining 3
  • noun cinder fragments of volcanic lava; scoriae 3
  • verb cinder to burn to cinders 3
  • noun cinder slag, as from the reduction of metallic ores 3
  • noun cinder a rough piece of solid lava 3
  • noun cinder any matter, as coal or wood, burned out or partly burned, but not reduced to ashes 3
  • noun cinder a minute piece of such matter 3
  • noun cinder a coal that is still burning but not flaming 3
  • noun cinder ashes from coal or wood 3
  • verb transitive cinder to cover with cinders 3
  • noun cinder A small piece of partly burned coal or wood that has stopped giving off flames but still has combustible matter in it. 1
  • noun cinder a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc. 1
  • noun cinder cinders. any residue of combustion; ashes. Geology. coarse scoriae erupted by volcanoes. 1
  • noun cinder a live, flameless coal; ember. 1
  • noun cinder Metallurgy. slag1 (def 1). a mixture of ashes and slag. 1
  • verb with object cinder to spread cinders on: The highway department salted and cindered the icy roads. 1
  • verb with object cinder Archaic. to reduce to cinders. 1
  • verb without object cinder to spread cinders on a surface, as a road or sidewalk: My neighbor began cindering as soon as the first snowflake fell. 1
  • noun cinder Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc. 0
  • noun cinder An ember. 0
  • noun cinder Slag from a metal furnace. 0
  • verb cinder (Transitive Verb) to reduce something to cinders. 0
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