What's the difference between cinder and minder?

Cinder


Definition:

  • (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.

Minder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.
  • (n.) One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Danziger, who flatly refused to go on an official trip to the circus, said gaining access was a daily battle, but in some cases their minders were more baffled than obstructive and couldn't understand why they wanted to meet hairdressers or fishermen.
  • (2) In his previous job, as BBC Vision director, he made a generally favourable impression on media reporters, especially those from papers hostile to the corporation, for his willingness to attend friendly and gossipy dinners without being chaperoned by BBC minders.
  • (3) They asked why she was "running scared" of the media and being "gagged" by Tory minders when she was out on the stump.
  • (4) We haven’t escaped from the “minder” you apparently believe we should have, and you’re not about to be called on to become our carer.
  • (5) Jeremy Corbyn’s minders can put him into a smart blue suit for an interview with Jeremy Paxman – but with his position on Brexit, he will find himself alone and naked in the negotiating chamber of the European Union ,” she said.
  • (6) When we were finally taken to Dara'a, the southern city that had been the cradle of this insurrection, we travelled in the presence of four government minders and, when we attempted to talk to anyone, we found ourselves surrounded by Mukhabarat who instructed our interviewees to tell us everything was normal.
  • (7) But this is not that occasion, and in the beige-on-beige meeting room at Burberry's HQ in London, with David Yelland, the ex-editor of the Sun, and her PR minder in tow, it's not quite so chummy.
  • (8) In an attempt to show that Nato had struck non-military targets, government minders on Wednesday morning took journalists to see a "nature reserve", occasionally used by Gaddafi to entertain guests, that had been hit the previous evening.
  • (9) Journalist visas from the government are rare, and travel beyond a few square kilometres of central Damascus requires permission from the ministry of information and the accompaniment of a government minder.
  • (10) Danish child-minder Karsten Kaltoft was fired from his job because he was too overweight – at 25 stone – to tie a child's shoe laces.
  • (11) The beach photographs were taken when Andrea Rose, head of visual arts at the British Council, went for a swim with the minders, leaving Danziger free to wander along the water's edge with his camera, chatting to people and accepting food from beach barbecues.
  • (12) Minders again tried to stop journalists taking pictures.
  • (13) With Joleon Lescott, his supposed minder, having lost his man, Newcastle’s captain, unleashed a right-foot shot that Guzan should arguably have saved.
  • (14) In this fantasy land, there are no ropes, red tape, spin doctors or security minders to come between us and our idols.
  • (15) Last month, Gao slipped his minders to investigate claims of police torture and sexual abuse in Changchun, the provincial capital of Jilin.
  • (16) Journalists who have managed to leave it or another hotel without minders are detained by police or turned back at roadblocks.
  • (17) MI6 put Litvinenko on its payroll, gave him an encrypted phone and assigned him a minder, “Martin”.
  • (18) To suggestions that Hutchings is a loose cannon whose London minders (more evident on the doorstep than local activists) keep her firmly under control, he insists she is a "strong original, local voice".
  • (19) Libyan minders pushed and lashed out at the journalists, one of them drawing a gun, another smashing a CNN camera.
  • (20) The North Korean minders escorting us were furious, which perplexed me because the children were well-dressed and well-fed and obviously delighted to see their own images on screen for what was probably the first time.