different between charcoal vs cinder

English

Etymology

From Middle English charcole, from charren (“to change, turn”) + cole (“coal”), from Old English cierran (“to change, turn”) + col (“coal”); equivalent to char (Etymology 3 (verb)) +? coal.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t???.k??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t???.ko?l/

Noun

charcoal (usually uncountable, plural charcoals)

1. (countable, uncountable) Impure carbon obtained by destructive distillation of wood or other organic matter, that is to say, heating it in the absence of oxygen.
2. (countable) A stick of black carbon material used for drawing.
3. (countable) A drawing made with charcoal.
4. A very dark gray colour.

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Adjective

charcoal (comparative more charcoal, superlative most charcoal)

1. Of a dark gray colour.
2. Made of charcoal.

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Verb

charcoal (third-person singular simple present charcoals, present participle charcoaling, simple past and past participle charcoaled)

1. To draw with charcoal.
2. To cook over charcoal.

See also

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.

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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.

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See also

• Cinderella
• scoria

Anagrams

• Nerdic, crined