(n.) Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.
(n.) A hot coal without flame; an ember.
(n.) A scale thrown off in forging metal.
(n.) The slag of a furnace, or scoriaceous lava from a volcano.
Example Sentences:
(1) Scoria (volcanic cinder) was most effective in excluding roots of crested wheatgrass and streambank wheatgrass.
(2) I carried every single one of these cinder blocks on my back up all those flights of steps.
(3) The volumes of the cinders are much larger than those of fly ash and therefore the fate and impact of PCDDs and PCDFs in dump sites of these cinders should be studied.
(4) His headquarters since 1971 are located in a modest but decent-sized building with interior cinder-block walls plastered with fading photos of famous Democrats.
(5) Determination of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) in fly ash and cinders collected from nine municipal incinerators in Japan was made.
(6) Planets caught in one would lose their atmospheres instantly and would be left a burnt cinder, astronomers say.
(7) Jogging on forest grounds and cinder paths is less strenuous compared to asphalt tracks or tartan paths.
(8) Artificial reefs have been created with cinder blocks or deliberately sunk ships, said Ferrari, “but we’ve never had an artificial reef that resembles a natural reef structure”.
(9) Asked if he felt guilty that other residents had their cars reduced to cinders, the older man said that, if a resident had come out and said it was their car, the group had moved on to another.
(10) In the study presented here, the expression of TNF alpha-mRNA was investigated in macrophages stimulated in vitro with quartz dust, dust from cinders of welding furnaces, and asbestos, using non-radioactive in situ hybridization.
(11) Maybe Branagh is planning a third act in which Cinders decides against marriage to Richard Madden ’s handsome prince after petitioning Bonham Carter to magic her up a source of independent wealth (rather than a pointless carriage that’s only going to turn into a pumpkin at midnight anyway).
(12) When you're 15, Cinderella stories, too, seem hopelessly dated; and to be confronted with Elizabeth, a pantomime Ugly Sister, on the shelf and in drag, waiting for the "baronet-blood", which never came, and Mary, a constant complainer stuck in the shires with a huntin', fishin', shootin' husband, was as undesirable as having to get to know the Cinders who did all the dull jobs and was "only Anne".
(13) For the past three months Bernard Madoff has lived in a bare cell, with cinder-block walls and a shared sink, just two by two and a half metres.
(14) The relation of V(O2) and speed was measured on seven athletes running on a cinder track and an all-weather track.
(15) Today, Sunset Crater national monument protects the massive cinder cone volcano and the surrounding lavascapes.
(16) They thought it was cute to throw cinder blocks at police,” said Batts.
(17) "The commonly used (uranium-based) nuclear reactor isn't a 'perfect stove', and burns only a small proportion of the highest quality fuel, leaving a lot of 'cinder'," a lead researcher told a Shanghai newspaper.
(18) Fly to Fresno Yosemite Airport Stay at Curry Village, within the park , tent cabins from $95 Danny Palmerlee, author of Lonely Planet's guide to Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks (£14.99) Volcano biking, Hawaii Volcanoes NP Kilauea volcano has been erupting pretty much constantly since 1983, creating a moonscape of lava fields, smoking craters, cinder cones and steam vents.
(19) It may not know where its journey will end, but the bridge back to April 2010 is in cinders.
(20) The settlement is a dusty cluster of tin-roofed, cinder-block houses next to the airport.
Cinderella
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It has announced a four-stage programme of reforms that will tackle most of these stubborn and longstanding problems, including Cinderella issues such as how energy companies treat their small business customers.
(2) The fairytales – which have been distributed by leaflet to universities around Singapore – include versions of Cinderella, the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel and Snow White, each involving a reworked tale that relates to fertility, sex or marriage, and a resulting moral.
(3) This fiscal Cinderella, once called rates and now council tax, has been hated by chancellors down the ages, largely because it is not collected and controlled by them.
(4) "There are so many competing areas that private fostering is still the Cinderella service at the bottom of the pile."
(5) Later in the year she is charged with a public order offence and common assault after allegedly attacking a theatre manager during a family production of Cinderella.
(6) Lily James, who plays Lady Rose, is the star of the new Cinderella film due to premiere this week.
(7) The circular economy at Disney World may not be as pretty as Cinderella’s Castle, but this process for turning organic waste into energy, which is known as anaerobic digestion , could turn out to be the best way to extract value from food scraps and treated sewage that would otherwise wind up in a landfill.
(8) "Energy saving is the cheapest way of closing the gap between demand and supply, yet it is the Cinderella of the energy ball.
(9) That means more resources devoted to further education colleges, currently the Cinderellas of the education service, and to university technical colleges, for those whose skills are technical and vocational rather than academic.
(10) As Peggy Orenstein, author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter, pointed out: "In the end, it wasn't about being brave at all.
(11) Thereafter, she appeared only occasionally on television as a guest, and sometimes acted in pantomime, as in Cinderella at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, in 2010.
(12) Digital rights will always be one of those Cinderella issues while the voting system focuses politicians' attention solely on a handful of swing voters in a small number of marginal constituencies.
(13) Its Three Little Pigs, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood show it is perfectly possible to make a fairytale app with craft and care, while ensuring that interactivity and inventive use of device features like the camera and accelerometer don't detract from the app's main purpose: storytelling.
(14) Outside, a more than faintly surreal urban beach scene in a June downpour: battered garden chairs and tables, dripping merry-go-round horse, Cinderella's pumpkin.
(15) As a metaphor, the Cinderella law – the name of proposed changes to the child neglect laws , meaning that mothers and fathers who starve their offspring of love and affection could be criminally prosecuted – is perfectly apt.
(16) The magic of reading a whole book in one sitting because I couldn’t tear my child away from the kids’ club (“Cinderella is coming later and we’re going to play bingo with Donald”).
(17) Incidentally, it also features small roles for Frances de la Tour and Emilia Fox, who also pop up as minor characters in another forthcoming London-set noir, Trap for Cinderella , by Iain Softley.
(18) Royal Ballet Christmas season Instead of its regular Christmas staples – The Nutcracker, Cinderella or The Tales of Beatrix Potter – the Royal is courting the festive box office with two recent productions: Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote.
(19) The proposal of a Cinderella law sparked outrage, and a lot of jokes about parents being dragged to court for refusing to buy their kid a pony.
(20) US box office chart 17-19 April Fast & Furious 7 : $29.1m, $294.4m Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 : $24m – New Unfriended: $16m – New Home : $10.3m, $142.6m The Longest Ride : $6.8m, $23.5m Get Hard : $6.8m, $78.2m Monkey Kingdom : $4.7m – New Woman in Gold : $4.5m The Divergent Series: Insurgent : $4.1m, $120.6m Cinderella : $3.8m, $186.3m