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cinder

Pronunciation: /ˈsɪndəː/

The English word “cinder” has 6 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.; it often rides the rising smoke column into the air, and it can pose a fire hazard when it lands, in dry conditions.
  2. An ember.
  3. Slag from a metal furnace.
  4. Any strong stimulant added to tea, soda water, etc.

verb

  1. To reduce to cinders.
  2. To cover with cinders.

Etymology

From Middle English cyndyr, syndir, synder, sinder, from Old English sinder (“cinder, dross, slag, scoria, dross of iron, impurity of metal”), from Proto-West Germanic *sindr, from Proto-Germanic *sindrą, *sindraz (“dross, cinder, slag”), from Proto-Indo-European *sendʰro- (“coagulating fluid, liquid slag, scale, cinder”). Cognate with Scots sinder (“ember, cinder”), West Frisian sindel, sintel…

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