cinder
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5.0
- noun
- /ˈsɪndər/
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ascua
- Sunlight slashes down into a cinder-block room, less than six feet wide but over twenty feet long.
- a cinder block
- hundreds of cinders
- a cinder path
It will render earth a burnt cinder before it vaporizes us as we go up in a puff of smoke into the vacuum of space.
- It will render earth a burnt cinder before it vaporizes us as we go up in a puff of smoke into the vacuum of space.
Examples
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Beyond the highway, two isolated mountains stand together; they are cinder cones of old volcanoes.
Fiction book (1994) -
- It must have tossed her onto the cinders.
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"From a distance," he wrote, "the red cinders seem to be on fire."
Academic text (2004) -
Our air will fill with cinders.
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Fate has burned my house to cinders and launched me into exile.
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But the eruption spread a blanket of cinders over hundreds of square miles.
Academic text (2004) -
I laid masking tape along the floor to mark where the cinder-block walls would go.
Fiction book (1991) -
The cone we stood on has meters of built-up cinders and bones from hundreds of years of sacrifice.
Academic text (1998) -
After the campfire had died down, only cinders remained, glowing softly in the darkness.
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The fireplace was filled with cinders from the logs I had burned all night.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small glowing piece left from a fire
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3.4
A small piece of wood or coal that stays hot and glows after a fire
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6.2
Black material left after something partly burns
Compounds
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Etymology
Cinder comes from an old word for a small piece of burned coal or wood, a 'burned bit' left glowing in the fire. So a cinder is a little partly burned piece that stays after the flames go out.