name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
clinker
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈklɪŋkə(ɹ)/
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General-American: /ˈklɪŋkɚ/
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rhymes with -ɪŋkə(ɹ)
noun
Meaning 2
A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: Dutch clinker
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noun
Meaning 3
A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 6
Hardened volcanic lava.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 8
Someone or something that clinks.
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noun
Meaning 9
Fetters.
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Usage: in-plural
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noun
Meaning 10
A mistake or blunder.
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Usage: slang
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noun
Meaning 11
A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, uncountable
Topics: nautical, transport
Examples
- clinker planking; a clinker dinghy
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verb
Meaning 12
To convert or be converted into clinker.
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Usage: ambitransitive
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noun
Meaning 13
a hard brick used as a paving stone
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: clinker brick
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Broader terms: brick
noun
Meaning 14
a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: cinder
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Broader terms: fragment
verb
Meaning 15
turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning
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Broader terms: change
verb
Meaning 16
clear out the cinders and clinker from
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- we clinkered the fire frequently
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Broader terms: clean out, clear out
History
Etymology
From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).
Etymology tree English clink Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English clinker From clink + -er.
From clincher.
Across languages
Translations
35 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: կլինկեր (klinker) — very hard brick for paving
- Dutch: klinker — very hard brick for paving
- Finnish: klinkkeri — very hard brick for paving
- Kashubian: klinker — very hard brick for paving
- Kazakh: клинкер (klinker) — very hard brick for paving
- Russian: кли́нкер (klínker) — very hard brick for paving
- Russian: голла́ндский кирпи́ч (gollándskij kirpíč) — very hard brick for paving
- Swedish: klinker — very hard brick for paving
- Armenian: կլինկեր (klinker) — slag or ash
- Bulgarian: сгурия (sgurija) — slag or ash
- Bulgarian: шлака (šlaka) — slag or ash
- Catalan: cagaferro — slag or ash
- Chinese Mandarin: 爐渣 /炉渣 (lúzhā) — slag or ash
- Chinese Mandarin: 煤渣 (méizhā) — slag or ash
- Dutch: klinker — slag or ash
- Finnish: kuona — slag or ash
- German: Schlacke — slag or ash
- Japanese: クリンカー (kurinkā) — slag or ash
- Occitan: escòria — slag or ash
- Russian: шлак (šlak) — slag or ash
- Armenian: կլինկեր (klinker) — intermediate product
- Czech: slínek — intermediate product
- Finnish: klinkkeri — intermediate product
- Portuguese: clínquer — intermediate product
- Portuguese: clinker — intermediate product
- Finnish: kovettunut laava — hardened lava
- Finnish: pajahilse — scum of iron oxide
- Chinese Mandarin: 叮当响的东西 — sthg that clinks
- Finnish: kilkutin — sthg that clinks
- Finnish: kalistin — sthg that clinks
- Catalan: buc tinglat — boatbuilding style
- Finnish: limisauma — boatbuilding style
- Galician: trincado — boatbuilding style
- German: Klinkerbauweise — boatbuilding style
- Spanish: tingladillo — boatbuilding style