(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.
Pinder
Definition:
(n.) One who impounds; a poundkeeper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Mark Pinder Livingstone then told ITV: “If Jeremy wants me to apologise, I will.” Pressed on whether that was a “sorry”, he said: “Well, it’s the best you’re going to get.” He also said Jones should not “pick a fight with people and then start wimping around”.
(2) In the search for a specific test, a method described by Pinder et al.
(3) As a result of the management vacuum it is expected that Richard Pinder, the chief operating officer for Publicis network, will have to spend a large part of his time in the coming months dealing with the company's London office.
(4) Photograph: Mark Pinder I was eager to become a champion for local residents, ensuring that police deliver for our communities.
(5) This practice has led to field resistance to many drugs used in the past (reviewed in Holmes & Scott 1982) and the appearance of resistance to the last available prophylactic drug, isometamidium, is being reported (Bourn & Scott 1978, Küpper & Wolters 1983, Pinder & Authié 1984), (c) the hope for a vaccine has been largely abandoned, in the present state of knowledge, due to the considerable extent of antigenic diversity in trypanosomes (reviewed in Doyle 1977, Turner 1982, Roelants & Pinder 1984), (d) consequently, the possible use of certain West African breeds of cattle, which appear resistant to trypanosomiasis, has been emphasized as a solution to this problem in domestic animals.
(6) Due to the demand for quality rehabilitation services in the region, we founded our rehabilitation service, Chase Park Neuro Centre , and a health club in 2007, winning the prestigious Pinders award for best new care development.
(7) Photograph: Mark Pinder The letter, signed by 96 people, including the broadcasters Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Chris Packham, says the government has a commitment "to nurturing our children's love and respect for nature" under two binding international agreements – the UN convention on the rights of the child and the convention on biological diversity's Aichi targets .
(8) Photograph: Mark Pinder Jones, who has spoken of his experience of depression in parliament , said he found Livingstone’s initial comments gravely offensive “not just personally but also to the many thousands who suffer from mental illness”.