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cinder
[ sin-der ]
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.
- a mixture of ashes and slag.
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.
cinder
/ 藞蝉瑟苍诲蓹 /
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 calledsinter any solid waste from smelting or refining
- plural fragments of volcanic lava; scoriae
verb
- rare.tr to burn to cinders
Derived Forms
- 藞肠颈苍诲别谤测, adjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 肠颈苍顎僤别谤路测 肠颈苍顎僤别谤路辞耻蝉 adjective
- 肠颈苍顎僤别谤路濒颈办别顎 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of cinder1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of cinder1
Idioms and Phrases
see burned to a cinder .Example Sentences
Robinson said he didn鈥檛 come to sift the cinders, not today.
Life savings, memories and livelihoods: all cinders within hours.
鈥淚f we have to take helicopters out of an area and the wind catches one of those cinders in that area and lifts it up, we could ignite a whole other area,鈥 he added.
But as she wandered through the wreckage on Thursday, she stepped amid cinders left by the flames that had swarmed the land and erased the life she had built.
"I've been relieved from the burden of my stuff because it's all in cinders."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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