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# cinder

«cinder» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small piece of burnt coal or wood that is left after a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cinders)

### meaning for a pupil

A small piece of burnt coal or wood that is left after a fire has gone out; grey ash. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinder/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, things are burnt to cinders, or someone sits by the cinder-heap

### examples

- The toast was burnt to a cinder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinder/#x1)
- By morning the house had burnt to cinders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinder/#x2)
- The cat slept on the warm cinders by the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinder/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cinder» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cinder/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.