different between basalt vs cinder

English

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek ????????? (basanít?s), from ??????? (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian b?n (“a hard stone”),

Pronunciation

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?bæs?lt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?bæs?lt/, /?bæs?lt/, /?bæs??lt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b??s?lt/, /?be?s??lt/
• Hyphenation: bas?alt

Noun

basalt (countable and uncountable, plural basalts)

1. (mineralogy) A hard mafic igneous rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, which makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.
2. A type of unglazed pottery.

Hypernyms

• molten rock

Hyponyms

• flood basalt

Derived terms

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Labats, Tablas, tablas, talabs

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes.

Noun

basalt m (plural basalts)

1. basalt

Further reading

• “basalt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “basalt” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “basalt” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “basalt” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French basalte, from Middle French basalte, from Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek ????????? (basanít?s), from ??????? (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian b?n (“a hard stone”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba??z?lt/
• Hyphenation: ba?salt
• Rhymes: -?lt

Noun

basalt n (uncountable)

1. basalt (type of igneous rock)

Derived terms

• basaltblok
• basalten

Faroese

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek ????????? (basanít?s), from ??????? (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian b?n (“a hard stone”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pa?sal?t]

Noun

basalt n (genitive singular basalts, uncountable)

1. (mineralogy) A hard rock of varied mineral content; volcanic in origin, it makes up much of the Earth's oceanic crust.

Declension

Synonyms

• blágrýti n

Irish

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek ????????? (basanít?s), from ??????? (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian b?n (“a hard stone”)

Noun

basalt m (genitive singular basailt)

1. (mineralogy) basalt

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "basalt" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “basalt” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek ????????? (basanít?s), from ??????? (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian b?n (“a hard stone”)

Noun

basalt m (definite singular basalten, indefinite plural basalter, definite plural basaltene)

1. basalt

Derived terms

• basaltisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Late Latin basaltes, a misspelling of Latin basanites, from Ancient Greek ????????? (basanít?s), from ??????? (básanos, “touchstone”), from Egyptian b?n (“a hard stone”)

Noun

basalt m (definite singular basalten, indefinite plural basaltar, definite plural basaltane)

1. basalt

Derived terms

• basaltisk

English

Alternative forms

• sinder (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English cinder, sinder, from Old English sinder (“cinder, dross, slag, scoria, dross of iron, impurity of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *sindr?, *sindraz (“dross, cinder, slag”), from Proto-Indo-European *send?ro- (“coagulating fluid, liquid slag, scale, cinder”). Cognate with Scots sinder (“ember, cinder”), West Frisian sindel, sintel (“cinder, slag”), Dutch sintel (“cinder, ember, slag”), Middle Low German sinder, sinter (“cinder, slag”), German Sinter (“dross of iron, scale”), Danish sinder (“spark of ignited iron, cinder”), Swedish sinder (“slag or dross from a forge”), Icelandic sindur (“scoring”), Old Church Slavonic ????? (s?dra, “lime cinder, gypsum”). Spelling (c- for s-) influenced by unrelated French cendre (“ashes”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?nd?/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(r)

Noun

cinder (plural cinders)

1. Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.
2. An ember.
   • 1730, Jonathan Swift, s:The Lady's Dressing Room

     If from adown the hopeful chops
     The fat upon the cinder drops,
     To stinking smoke it turns the flame,
     Poisoning the flesh from whence it came

3. Slag from a metal furnace.
4. (dated, colloquial) Any strong stimulant added to tea, soda water, etc.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

cinder (third-person singular simple present cinders, present participle cindering, simple past and past participle cindered)

1. (transitive) To reduce to cinders.
2. (transitive) To cover with cinders.

   We plan to cinder this path.

Translations

See also

• Cinderella
• scoria

Anagrams

• Nerdic, crined