cinder

CEFRC1

/ˈsɪndəː/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A small piece of partly burned coal or wood.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    An ember.

Examples

  • Tom felt as if a cinder block was dropped on his head.

  • Ziri surrounded the medlar tree with cinder blocks.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [ˈsɪ̟ndɚ] ~ [ˈsɪ̟ndɹ̩]

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Slag from a metal furnace.

  2. 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.

  3. Any strong stimulant added to tea, soda water, etc.

More examples

In context

  • Where did you buy cinder blocks?

  • We plan to cinder this path.

  • If from adown the hopeful chops The fat upon the cinder drops, To stinking smoke it turns the flame, Poisoning the flesh from whence it came

Synonyms

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The blackened blank from the fireplace still glowed with faint heat.

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Origin

noun

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 (“cinder, slag”), Dutch sintel (“cinder, ember, slag”), Middle Low German sinder, sinter (“cinder, slag”), German Sinter (“dross of iron, scale”), Danish sinder (“spark of ignited iron, cinder”), Swedish sinder (“slag or dross from a forge”), Icelandic sindur (“scoring”), Old Church Slavonic сѧдра (s...