noun Download 🔗Share A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands. Examples : "The driveway was paved with durable, reddish-brown clinker bricks, imported from the Netherlands. " material architecture building Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat. Examples : "The old brick factory sometimes produced a large clinker, a fused mass of unusable bricks stuck together. " material architecture building Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling. Examples : "After the coal fire died down, only gray clinker remained in the fireplace. " material substance industry technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The factory workers loaded the hot clinker from the kiln onto the conveyor belt, ready for grinding into cement powder. " material substance geology architecture building industry chemistry technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Hardened volcanic lava. Examples : "The black, jagged clinker crunched under my hiking boots as I walked across the old lava field. " geology material substance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging. Examples : "The blacksmith carefully knocked off the clinker clinging to the hot iron as he shaped it. " material substance chemistry industry Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To convert or be converted into clinker. Examples : "The high heat in the kiln caused the clay mixture to clinker, forming hard, stony lumps. " material process chemistry building Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Someone or something that clinks. Examples : "The dog's collar was a noisy clinker, jingling with every step he took. " sound thing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (in the plural) Fetters. Examples : "The escaped prisoner still wore his clinkers, making his escape slow and difficult. " law police military Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks. Examples : "clinker planking; a clinker dinghy" nautical sailing vehicle technical style Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading