(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.
Scum
Definition:
(v.) The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross.
(v.) refuse; recrement; anything vile or worthless.
(v. t.) To take the scum from; to clear off the impure matter from the surface of; to skim.
(v. t.) To sweep or range over the surface of.
(v. i.) To form a scum; to become covered with scum. Also used figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) There, they learn that African Americans are the scum of the earth - then they are sent here.'
(2) The future is defined by the same old atavistic carnage as ever – which is, as Rosenbaum says, “an ingenious form of doublethink echoed in the very premise of a fantasy of the future beginning with “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ...” Star Wars cast feel the Force after watching new trailer Read more I don’t hate Star Wars – I love the puppetry, just for starters, and all those beautifully dirty, scum-caked robots.
(3) I mean, these people have been described as evil, as scum of the earth, and if we’re paying them, bribing them, to turn back the boats, I mean that’s almost a crime.” Abbott: “Well Neil, the important thing is to stop the boats, that’s the important thing, and I think the Australian people are extremely pleased that that’s what happened.
(4) Though waterbirds, including moorhens and gulls, live on the margins, and a thin scum of litter is visible at the shore, the reservoir is not intended as a home to wildlife, and any fish living here are accidental visitors.
(5) Anyone who doubts or questions … will be relentlessly pursued by denouncers – “disgusting” is a modest term to describe this scum.
(6) Other Greeks with similar experiences said the far-rightists, catapulted into parliament on a ticket of tackling "immigrant scum" were simply doing the job of a defunct state that had left a growing number feeling overwhelmed by a "sense of powerlessness".
(7) The debate was interrupted after 20 minutes when about 30 student demonstrators walked into the hall and began to barrack Hunt, chanting "Minister of culture, Tory vulture" and "Tory scum".
(8) She was in my face saying, ‘You’re scum, you’re scum.’” That’s not accepted by Jordan.
(9) Liz Kendall, the former leadership contender, received a tweet calling for “a final solution to purge Blairite scum” like her from the party.
(10) The chants so far are the same as those at Millbank, and cries of "Tory scum" echo around the campus.
(11) When asked about Eddie Obeid's comments directed at her over the years, which included the allegations she had been " mixing with scum for so long that she no longer knows who is good and who is bad , what is real and what is made up," she said " It's not very nice, is it? "
(12) In the opening round of the tournament he shouted “dirty scum” during the third set of a comfortable victory over Diego Schwartzman.
(13) Half the class believed they represented “elitist scum”, but other prisoners defended their purpose, saying although they couldn’t attend one themselves, they now put their own children through private education.
(14) Liz Kendall, the former leadership contender, who is still undecided, received a tweet calling for “a final solution to purge Blairite scum” like her from the party.
(15) There were accusations of sexism when he gave a female candidate on The Apprentice the third degree about how she intended to organise her childcare and he prompted more outrage with an attack on professional footballers, which he described as "he biggest scum that walk on this planet".
(16) I will do everything it takes until we win full victory to free Ukraine from this scum, from this corrupt dirt which is capitalising on the blood of our soldiers and the victims of Maidan, and which has betrayed the ideas of the Ukrainian revolution,” said Saakashvili.
(17) Richard Davenport-Hines in his recently published An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo writes that 1963 was the year when "the soapy scum flowed after the sluices of self-righteous scurrility were opened".
(18) We were just scared.” Witness reports describe protesters throwing snowballs at the bus and shouting “Let’s see what kind of vermin will get off here” and “asylum scum”.
(19) I'm just an ordinary person, I'm not scum, I'm not a thief or a junkie, but when you are desperate you end up resorting to desperate means.
(20) I salute them for that.” Class War, originally an eponymous newspaper as well as a movement, somewhat fizzled out during the 1990s but has been recently revived, standing six candidates in this year’s general election under the slogan: “Because all the other candidates are scum.” Class War is organising a protest this Sunday at a museum originally billed as celebrating the role of women in London but which ended up focusing on the crimes of Jack the Ripper .