cinders
cinders — noun
1. small pieces of wood or coal that have stopped burning but can still give off he
small pieces of wood or coal that have stopped burning but can still give off heat, often glowing red before they go cold.
Talia raked the glowing cinders out of the fireplace before going to bed.
typical action: rake/sweep cinders from a fire
The campers tossed water onto the cinders to make sure no spark survived.
collocation: pour/toss water onto cinders
A few hot cinders fell from the grill and burned tiny holes in the rug.
Emre used tongs to lift a cinder from the stove and light his pipe with it.
By morning, the campfire had cooled into a pile of grey cinders along the edge of the lake.
文法句型
cinders from [fire/fuel source]
用法筆記
Often used in the plural; treat as countable. Distinguish from sense 2 — sense 1 cinders can still be hot or relit, while sense 2 cinders are cold ash left behind.
常見錯誤
2. the cold, grey fragments left after a fire has gone out — like ash, but in small
the cold, grey fragments left after a fire has gone out — like ash, but in small lumps rather than fine powder.
After the warehouse fire, only blackened cinders remained where the storage room used to be.
after a destructive fire, only cinders remain
Élise swept the cinders out of the wood stove and carried them outside in a metal bucket.
collocation: sweep cinders out / carry away cinders
The fierce wildfire reduced the old farmhouse to cinders within a single afternoon.
Brandon scattered the cinders from the bonfire across the vegetable patch as a rough fertiliser.
Trang found a single charred photograph among the cinders of the burnt-out cottage.
文法句型
reduced/burned to cinders
用法筆記
Frequently appears in the fixed pattern 'reduced/burned to cinders', describing total destruction by fire. Distinguish from sense 1 — sense 2 cinders are cold leftovers, not still-hot fuel.