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Definition: Clinker |
ClinkerNoun1. A fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire. 2. A hard brick used as a paving stone. Verb1. Clear out the cinders and clinker from: "we clinkered the fire frequently". 2. Turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "clinker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | The sintered product obtained in the manufacture of Portland cement which, when pulverized with the addition of calcium sulphate, produces Portland cement ; an intermediate product in cement manufacture in the form of nodules, resulting from the calcination of raw mineral materials which are proportioned and homogenized before fusion. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Clinker (Humphrey). Hero of Smollett's novel so called. The general scheme of Oliver Twist resembles it. Humphrey is a workhouse boy, put out apprentice; but being afterwards reduced to great want, he attracts the notice of Mr Bramble, who takes him into his service. He turns out to be Bramble's natural son, and falls in love with Winifred Jenkins, Miss Bramble's maid. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Metallurgy | Fused or partially-fused fuel ash which may contain some incompletely burned fuel. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. Fused or partly fused coal ash, a byproduct of combustion. CF:cor b. Coal that has been altered by an igneous intrusion. See also:natural coke c. Partially fused intermediate product in the manufacture of portlandcement. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Synonyms: ClinkerSynonyms: cinder (n), clinker brick (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Calefaction | Pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china; earthenware, stoneware; pot, mug, terra cotta, brick, clinker. |
Uncleanness | Hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings; (useless refuse); offscourings, outscourings; off scum; caput mortuum, residuum, sprue, fecula, clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviae, morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Clinker |
| Specialty definitions using "clinker": Jordeloo ♦ Lismahago ♦ Matthew Bramble ♦ portland cement clinker, pozzolana cement ♦ RECOVERY OPERATOR ♦ weakened cement. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Clinker" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Italian (clinker), Portuguese (cement clinker, clinker). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's a clinker! (A Christmas Story; writing credit: Leigh Brown; Bob Clark) We could all end up in the clinker for this (Slap Shot; writing credit: Nancy Dowd) | |
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Books | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Don't waste food while others starve! / L.C. Clinker & M.J. Dwyer ; Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co. N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Don't waste food while others starve! / L.C. Clinker & M.J. Dwyer ; Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co. N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Economic History | Guinea | Guinea imported 373,938 metric tons of construction and semi-finished materials in 1997. 194,4 metric tons of clinker (material used in cement) were imported in 1999. In 1999 189,227,460 metric tons of cement were imported. (references) |
Trade | India | The budget also reduced basic duty rates on selected information technology, telecommunications, textile machinery and cinematography equipment; gold; and on infrastructure-related items such as cement and clinker. (references) |
Travel | Nicaragua | Puerto Sandino, also located on the Pacific Coast, is primarily used for the import of crude petroleum and bulk cargo, such as fertilizer, clinker and steel. (references) |
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| "Clinker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Clinker" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 85.71% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Noun (proper) | 14.29% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "clinker" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Clinker | Last name | 100 | 86,654 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "clinker": cement clinker ♦ clinker brick ♦ Dutch clinker ♦ portland cement clinker. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "clinker": clinker-built, clinker-hulled. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
clinker | 26 |
chain clinker drag | 9 |
cement clinker | 9 |
clinker brick | 7 |
clinker mixture | 3 |
boat built clinker | 2 |
clinker supplier | 2 |
cement clinker indonesia pt | 2 |
clinker reginald | 2 |
clinker de horno produccion | 2 |
clinker from thailand | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "clinker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zhir (cinder, cinder path, cinder track), zgjyrë (cinder, dross, grime, rust, scum, slag), bramc. (various references) | |
Arabic | خبث المعادن, آجر قاس جدا. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фалшива нота, шлака (dross, salamander, scoria, slag), нещо първокласно. (various references) | |
Chinese | 粉煤渣. (various references) | |
Czech | zvonièka. (various references) | |
Danish | cementklinker (cement clinker), stenkulsslagge, smedeskæl (slag), slagger (ballast, bulk, bulking agents, dross, indigestible material, slag), slagge (blast furnace slag, cinders, slag), sinter (nodule, sinter), klinker (cement clinker), hammerskæl (slag), glødeskal (forge scale, slag). (various references) | |
Dutch | slak (cinder, slug, snail), sintel (cinder), klinker (brick, vowel). (various references) | |
Farsi | پوسته اهن , تفاله شیشه درکوره قالگری , اجرکاشی (Tile), اجرلعابی . (various references) | |
Finnish | kuona (dross, slag), klinkkeri (cement clinker). (various references) | |
French | mâchefer. (various references) | |
German | klinker (cement clinker, flemish brick), Ziegelstein (brick), schlacke (cinder, cinders, dross, scoria, slag, waste products), Backstein (brick). (various references) | |
Greek | σκωρία (rust, rustiness, scoria, slag). (various references) | |
Hungarian | klinkertégla (Dutch clinkers, hollander), megdönthetetlen érvelés (clincher), baki (bloomer, blooper, boner, break, flub-up, howler, slip-up, trip), csavarszeg (clinch-nail), csengőkő, fals (side, wrong), használt autó, kemény tégla, keramit útburkoló tégla, klinker, öreg autó, maflás, zsugorított salak, nagyszerű dolog (stunner), nagyszerű ember, perdöntő bizonyíték (clincher), remek ember (crackajack, spanker, trump), reveréteg, salak (cinder, dirt, dross, recrement, scale, scum, slag, sludge), salakréteg, találó válasz (clincher), tragacs (clunker, crock, flivver, jalopy, junker, old tin can, rattletrap, shebang), visszavert fejű szeg (clinch-nail), kongótégla. (various references) | |
Italian | clinker (cement clinker). (various references) | |
Korean | 클링커. (various references) | |
Manx | slagg, breek Ollanagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inkerclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | clinker (cement clinker), clínquer, tijolo vitrificado (glazed brick), tijolo holandês (flemish brick), lava (lava), jorra (slag), escória (cinder, dirt, dreg, dregs, raffle, refuse, scobs, scoria, scum, slag, spoilage, trash), argumento decisivo (clincher, sockdolager). (various references) | |
Romanian | clincher, zgurã (cinder, cinders, dross, foam, scale, scoria, scum, sinter, slag). (various references) | |
Russian | шлак (scobs, scoria, scoriae, sinter, slag), клинкер (Flemish brick), застывшая лава. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tvrdo pečena cigla, klinker, šljaka (dross, slack, slag). (various references) | |
Spanish | escoria (dress, dross, scoria, scum, slag). (various references) | |
Swedish | klinker (cement clinker). (various references) | |
Turkish | cüruf (cinders, dross, scoria, slag), tuğla (brick, tile), klinker, kiremit tuğlası, donmuş lâv kütlesi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чудовий взірець, шлак (cinder, dross, scar, scoria, sinter, slag), клінкер, окалина (calx, cinder, scoria, sinter), обпалена цегла, застигла лава. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | cú đấm hay, cái đặc sắc, xỉ tảng, thất bại (grief, unsuccessful), gạch nung gi tảng cứt sắt, $clinke. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "clinker": clinkered, clinkering, clinkers. (additional references) | |
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"Clinker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clankier, Cleyndert, cliner, cluker, flinker, Kalinke, Klenke, klinker, klunker, Schlieker, Selinker, Selniker, slenker, slinker. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "clinker" (pronounced 'Clink"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: crinkle. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-k-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: licker, linker, nickel, nicker, nickle, relink. | |
-2 letters: clerk, cline, clink, icker, inker, inkle, liken, liker, liner, nicer, reink, relic. | |
-3 letters: ceil, cine, cire, keir, kern, kier, kiln, kine, kirn, lice, lick, lien, lier, like, line, link, lire, neck, nice, nick, reck, rein, rice, rick, riel, rile, rink. | |
-4 letters: cel, elk, ern, ice, ick, ilk. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-k-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: clerking, clinkers, clunkier, crinkled, crinkles. | |
+2 letters: clinkered, crinklier, freckling, interlock, knucklier, lackering, relocking, truckline, unluckier. | |
+3 letters: bucklering, clinkering, crinkliest, flickering, interlocks, linebacker, pincerlike, retackling, silkscreen, trancelike, trucklines. | |
+4 letters: cartoonlike, cinderblock, cupronickel, forelocking, interlocked, linebackers, prickliness, racewalking, silkscreens, trickledown. | |
+5 letters: cinderblocks, cupronickels, flickeringly, interlocking, pumpernickel, racewalkings, schnorkeling, stickhandler. | |
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