different between cinter vs cinder

English

Etymology

French cintre. Doublet of centrum.

Noun

cinter (plural cinters)

1. (architecture) Alternative form of center

Anagrams

• centri-, citren, cretin, crinet

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.

Translations

See also

• Cinderella
• scoria

Anagrams

• Nerdic, crined