(n.) A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.
(n.) Scoria or vitrified incombustible matter, formed in a grate or furnace where anthracite coal in used; vitrified or burnt matter ejected from a volcano; slag.
(n.) A scale of oxide of iron, formed in forging.
(n.) A kind of brick. See Dutch clinker, under Dutch.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ninety-five mass% magnesia clinker and 5 mass% dental stone were selected for the main constituents.
(2) While other kids my age went to amusement parks, I'd be sailing on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay in a clinker-built ship, learning just how hard it was to row in synch with 11 other people, returning to shore happy and slightly windburned.
(3) The present paper is an overview of the experimental research into the effects of flue magnesite dust in the magnesite industry in which the raw material (magnesite) is processed into refractory magnesite clinker.
(4) A study was conducted to evaluate the level of bronchial responsiveness among workers recently exposed to vanadium pentoxide during periodical removal of ashes and clinker from the boilers of an oil-fired power station.
Clunker
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The "cash for clunkers" programme will also be markedly smaller than Germany's, which is investing €5bn (£4.49bn) and has boosted sales by 40%.
(2) Verlander pitched poorly in Game 1 but they can't think he will throw two clunkers in a row.
(3) Britain's growth spurt in the spring of this spring also owed a great deal to the last government's attempts to stimulate demand through public sector infrastructure programmes, job placement subsidies, the VAT holiday, cash for clunkers and active policies to prevent businesses going bust and to prevent homes being repossessed.
(4) Seville’s cyclists mainly ride upright old clunkers and wear everyday clothes.
(5) The carmaker, which lost $2.8bn in the same quarter last year, said the better performance was driven by gains in market share, reduced costs and the "cash-for-clunkers" programmes run by a number of governments to stimulate sales of new cars.
(6) Among the debris are two taxes, cash-for-clunkers, pink batts, the green loan disaster, outrageous solar rebates and soaring power prices.
(7) Seville cyclists mainly ride upright old clunkers in everyday clothes When the paths meet a road junction they curve gently on to a controlled crossing where, officially, cyclists are supposed to wait for a green bike symbol.
(8) The stimulus package also includes a car scrappage scheme similar to the "cash for clunkers" programme being debated in the US Congress.
(9) "Do not rule out the possibility that the Republicans will nominate a clunker.
(10) Even the similarly subjective literature prize is rarely too disputed – look down the list of previous winners and you’ll spot few real clunkers, though probably even Winston Churchill himself felt a bit embarrassed collecting the 1953 award .
(11) Whatever the controversy over the EU's success last year there's no obvious, Kissinger-style clunkers.
(12) Cash for clunkers, it is called, and it is a plausible scheme - but a dreadful idea.
(13) Sitting in the glittery Conrad hotel in lower Manhattan, an Elizabeth Peyton hanging on the wall of his suite, he’s the Oscar-winning director of classic films including Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Natural Born Killers, and clunkers such as Alexander (with Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great).
(14) "They have four decent choices – Romney, Pawlenty, [Mitch] Daniels and [Haley] Barbour – and the rest are a bunch of clunkers.
(15) Local leaders voiced anger at the manufacturer, which won the biggest share of the federal government's US$3bn (£1.84bn) "cash-for-clunkers" programme, with the Corolla emerging as the scheme's best-selling model.
(16) Public investment in buildings helped provide the biggest boost to construction output for more than six years, while the "cash for clunkers" scheme led to a pick-up in demand for cars.
(17) And industry-wide monthly US vehicle sales for October were flat year-on-year, a sign of stabilisation even without the "cash-for-clunkers" boost.
(18) The whole GP tax is a clunker, it’s rotten, it’s unfair, it’s a broken promise.” The acting leader of the Greens, Adam Bandt, said Tony Abbott should accept that his budget was “dead, buried and cremated” – a line the prime minister had previously used about the Howard government’s WorkChoices policy.
(19) Before that, she was homeless, living in her clunker of a van, until that was hauled away, and then sleeping under bridges and on church pews.