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cinder [sin-der] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc. cinders,
- any residue of combustion; ashes.
- Geology.coarse scoriae erupted by volcanoes.
a live, flameless coal; ember. Metallurgy.
- slag1(def 1).
- a mixture of ashes and slag.
SEE MORESEE LESS verb (used with object) to spread cinders on: The highway department salted and cindered the icy roads. Archaic. to reduce to cinders. verb (used without object) to spread cinders on a surface, as a road or sidewalk: My neighbor began cindering as soon as the first snowflake fell. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of cinder before 900; Middle English synder, Old English sinder slag; cognate with German Sinter, Old Norse sindr; c- (for s-) French cendre ashesRelated formscin·der·y, cin·der·ous, adjectivecin·der·like, adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for cinderous Historical Examples of cinderous
A worthy companion portrait to that of cinderous Mr. Toodles, the stoker, familiar to the readers of Dombey.
Charles Kent
British Dictionary definitions for cinderous cinder noun a piece of incombustible material left after the combustion of coal, coke, etc; clinker a piece of charred material that burns without flames; ember Also called: sinter any solid waste from smelting or refining (plural) fragments of volcanic lava; scoriae verb (tr) rare to burn to cinders Derived Formscindery, adjectiveWord Origin for cinder Old English sinder; related to Old Norse sindr, Old High German sintar, Old Slavonic sedra stalactite Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for cinderous cinder n.
Old English sinder “dross of iron, slag,” from Proto-Germanic *sendra- “slag” (cf. Old Saxon sinder “slag, dross,” Old Norse sindr, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch sinder, Dutch sintel, Old High German sintar, German Sinter), from PIE root *sendhro- “coagulating fluid” (cf. Old Church Slavonic sedra “cinder”).
Initial s- changed to c- under influence of unrelated French cendre “ashes,” from Latin cinerem (nominative cinis) “ashes,” from or related to Greek konis “dust” (see incinerate). The French word also apparently shifted the sense of the English one to “small piece of burnt coal” (16c.). Volcanic cinder cone is recorded from 1849.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper Idioms and Phrases with cinderous cinder
see burned to a cinder.
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