noun🔗ShareClínkerA very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands."The driveway was paved with durable, reddish-brown clinker bricks, imported from the Netherlands. "El camino de entrada estaba pavimentado con ladrillos de clínker duraderos, de color marrón rojizo, importados de los Países Bajos.materialarchitecturebuildingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareClínkerA mass of bricks fused together by intense heat."The old brick factory sometimes produced a large clinker, a fused mass of unusable bricks stuck together. "La antigua fábrica de ladrillos a veces producía un gran clínker, una masa fusionada de ladrillos inservibles pegados entre sí.materialarchitecturebuildingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareClínker, escoriaSlag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling."After the coal fire died down, only gray clinker remained in the fireplace. "Después de que el fuego de carbón se apagó, solo quedó escoria gris en la chimenea.materialsubstanceindustrytechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareClinkerAn 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."The factory workers loaded the hot clinker from the kiln onto the conveyor belt, ready for grinding into cement powder. "Los trabajadores de la fábrica cargaron el clinker caliente del horno en la cinta transportadora, listo para molerlo en polvo de cemento.materialsubstancegeologyarchitecturebuildingindustrychemistrytechnicalChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareEscoria volcánicaHardened volcanic lava."The black, jagged clinker crunched under my hiking boots as I walked across the old lava field. "La escoria volcánica negra y dentada crujía bajo mis botas de senderismo mientras caminaba por el antiguo campo de lava.geologymaterialsubstanceChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareEscoriaA scum of oxide of iron formed in forging."The blacksmith carefully knocked off the clinker clinging to the hot iron as he shaped it. "El herrero golpeó cuidadosamente la escoria adherida al hierro caliente mientras le daba forma.materialsubstancechemistryindustryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareConvertirse en clínkerTo convert or be converted into clinker."The high heat in the kiln caused the clay mixture to clinker, forming hard, stony lumps. "El calor intenso en el horno hizo que la mezcla de arcilla se convirtiera en clínker, formando grumos duros y pedregosos.materialprocesschemistrybuildingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareLo que produce un clincSomeone or something that clinks."The dog's collar was a noisy clinker, jingling with every step he took. "El collar del perro era un clinc ruidoso, que tintineaba con cada paso que daba.soundthingChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareGrilletes(in the plural) Fetters."The escaped prisoner still wore his clinkers, making his escape slow and difficult. "El prisionero fugado todavía llevaba sus grilletes, lo que hacía que su escape fuera lento y difícil.lawpolicemilitaryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareConstrucción a clinkerA style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks."clinker planking; a clinker dinghy"Entablado a clinker; un bote a clinkernauticalsailingvehicletechnicalstyleChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
