(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.
Hinder
Definition:
(a.) Of or belonging to that part or end which is in the rear, or which follows; as, the hinder part of a wagon; the hinder parts of a horse.
(a.) To keep back or behind; to prevent from starting or moving forward; to check; to retard; to obstruct; to bring to a full stop; -- often followed by from; as, an accident hindered the coach; drought hinders the growth of plants; to hinder me from going.
(a.) To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out.
(v. i.) To interpose obstacles or impediments; to be a hindrance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The blocking action may have masked and hindered detection of the stimulatory action of barium in other systems.
(2) Diffusional anisotropy of water protons, induced by nonrandom, directional barriers which hinder or retard water motion, is measurable by MRI.
(3) The power of the landed elite is often cited as a major structural flaw in Pakistani politics – an imbalance that hinders education, social equality and good governance (there is no agricultural tax in Pakistan).
(4) Mapping of susceptibility is hindered by the limitations of conventional tissue typing techniques, and by strong linkage disequilibrium within this part of the genome.
(5) From these results, we presume that light induces a protein that hinders the interaction of gp70 in HM1 cells with its receptor on the NC4 cell surface and thereby inhibits the sexual process between these strains.
(6) This in vivo incorporation of tungsten was competitively hindered by molybdenum.
(7) If a prisoner is in the process of taking a programme this can hinder or even curtail their progress – many prisons don't offer certain programmes so if you are moved to a prison without a particular course you are back to square one when it comes to the crucial Parole Board assessment.
(8) From the outset the former Leicester University economics professor has made no secret of the fact this his “dysfunctional relationship” with Anastasiades and other central Bank board members had hindered his role in the post.
(9) The inhibition of Na+K+ ATPase and Mg2+ ATPase activity which may affect the release and uptake of biogenic amines in CNS, hinders the maturation of human fetal brain.
(10) The identification of patients usually refractory to outpatient treatment was hindered by the constant flux in the population base as illustrated by an 85% increase in the asthma registry over the succeeding 12-mo period.
(11) OKT4 and OKT8 monoclonal antibodies slightly hindered depolarization by CsA while OKT3, OKT11 and OKIa1 antibodies had no such effect.
(12) The Communist party and the liberal Yabloko party complained on Sunday of extensive election violations aimed at boosting United Russia's vote count, including party observers being hindered in their work.
(13) These data indicate that the basic model presented here provides a suitable vehicle for future studies into the biochemical events that may cause skeletal muscle enlargement during resistance training but, based on limited data, suggests that an increased frequency of training days may hinder muscle enlargement in this model.
(14) If this geometry was changed, a decrease in affinity was observed and if the ligand binding was sterically hindered, a spectral shift to a five-coordinated complex absorbing at 390 nm occurred.
(15) Administrative inefficiency hinders even more the appropriate utilization of resources.
(16) Thus, the product of natural processing of equine myoglobin probably has hindering structures in the regions flanking the core epitope 102-118 that interfere with presentation by I-Ak but not I-AS.
(17) Many tropical diseases cause disability and hinder the socio-economic development of the Third World countries where they rage.
(18) The difficulties encountered in casting titanium and its alloys have until recently hindered any widespread use of titanium in restorative dentistry.
(19) Warming water will make it hard for many of the reef’s corals to survive, while the acidification of the oceans will hinder the ability of remaining corals to form their skeletons.
(20) The 3-nitrocatechol-structure of nitecapone seems to hinder nitro-reduction, catechol-O-methylation, and sulfation reactions.