clinker
pronunciation
How to pronounce clinker in British English:
UK [ˈklɪŋkə(r)]
How to pronounce clinker in American English:
US ['klɪŋkər]
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- Noun:
- a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
- a hard brick used as a paving stone
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- Verb:
- clear out the cinders and clinker from
- turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning
Word Origin
- clinker (n.)
- "mass of slag," 1769, from klincard (1640s), a type of paving brick made in Holland, from Dutch klinkaerd, from klinken "to ring" (as it does when struck), of imitative origin. Also "a clinch-nail;" hence clinker-built (1769). The meaning "stupid mistake" is first recorded 1950 in American English; originally (1942) "a wrong note in music."
Example
- 1. The singer hit a clinker .
- 2. County economic and trading bureau . Main product is clinker cement .
- 3. Third , they are mixing more additives into their cement , and so reducing the proportion of emissions-intensive clinker .
- 4. Determination on hydrated products in cao clinker containing al_2o_3 .
- 5. The main ingredient in concrete , cement is made by heating limestone and clay until they fuse into a material called clinker , which is then ground up and mixed with various additives .