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单词 slag
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Definition of slag in English:

slag

nounPlural slags slaɡslæɡ
  • 1mass noun Stony waste matter separated from metals during the smelting or refining of ore.

    the burning liquid iron was forming a scum of slag
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Under suitable slag conditions vanadium, in quite small quantities, ‘cleans’ the steel and renders it free from slag inclusions.
    • We started making turns around the slag piles at the mine.
    • Piles of black slag marked the entrances to small coal mines.
    • In highly developed countries, the major components of industrial waste are blast furnace and steel slag, and power station ash.
    • The waste product slag was also increasingly used in road and house building.
    • The union has leveled 15 separate charges against Levy, a contractor at Mittal Steel USA, which performs slag processing and metal reclamation.
    • Tell me about Lehigh's interest in supplemental materials, like slag cement.
    • Some people had even died in slag slides, picking loose bits of coal in order to keep their homes heated.
    • The road is unusually constructed of compacted iron slag.
    • The hardened matter was slag, a waste product from metal working, and contained evidence of iron, copper and lead manufacture.
    • In particular, tuyeres in the furnace became blocked with slag.
    • Ground granulated blast furnace slag is used in 53 % of councils in NSW and 23 % in VIC.
    • The concentrates are refined by smelting - they are melted, and the impurities are removed as a slag.
    • Ores, slag and ash exports during the first seven months amounted to $644 million, up 77 per cent over the same period last year.
    • By contrast, the lunar regolith ‘has a composition similar to mining slag.’
    • The blasts shot towards the small shielded orb and reduced the metal to molten slag.
    • This artificial uranium mine is contained in the slag material from power station coal combustion and deposited in landfills.
    • Blast furnaces are used to recycle slag, dross, and residues from other processes.
    • "Oh, it used to be a slag heap, " John said.
    • Vincent snorted, and turned the doorknob into molten slag once it had swung shut again.
    1. 1.1 Stony material ejected by a volcano; scoria.
      count noun flow after flow of lava, slags, powders, and ejecta cast upon the previous outpourings in grotesque patterns
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Two recycled cementitious materials come to mind immediately - fly ash and slag cement.
      • I watched, slightly shocked, as molten metal slag fell onto the glass, steaming.
      • Mineral fiber insulation, including fiber glass and rock wool, is produced from either molten glass, slag, or rock.
      • There were areas of bare rock and slag, which were around old gold mines, according to the naturalist.
      • It was a more rustic and northern version of Detroit with escarpments of slag and iron ore.
      • Thirdly, reduce the clinker content in cement, by intergrinding cementious material like slag, fly ash, or limestone.
      • Kerosene has been used to light pyres constructed of coal slag, old tyres and tar-soaked rail sleepers.
      • The increasing size of the slag pile poses an ongoing threat to the richest remaining prairie site.
      • The blasts shot towards the small shielded orb and reduced the metal to molten slag.
      • It is usually caused by the scouring action of sand, gravel, slag, earth, and other gritty material.
      • The difference in densities of the molten iron and molten slag allow each material to be removed separately from the furnace.
      • The stats and history of this limestone slag heap are impressive in their own right.
  • 2British derogatory, informal A woman who has many casual sexual encounters or relationships.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But as soon as a women starts to pick and choose who she sleeps with she gets called a slag.
    • Alastair's so used to working in a serious environment, he couldn't believe fellas were coming at him with slags.
    • She told him Trev had called her a dirty slag after their drink the other night and had refused to sleep with her.
    • If you look beyond the dehumanising stereotypes to the hard facts, it emerges that females in jail are not conniving slags.
    • Not so many slags frequent this public house anymore - each time we go in there the ratio of men to women is rising.
    • The place was full of big bellied old West Ham supporters, complete with navy tattoos with the fat slags from Viz in tow.
    • The women are slags, either scrawny with straggly blonde hair, or grotesquely fat and bulging out of their tracksuit bottoms.
    • Boys continued to make the same distinction between prospective wives and slags.
verbslags, slagged, slagging slaɡslæɡ
  • 1usually as noun slaggingno object Produce deposits of slag.

    the furnace burns at a minimum temperature to reduce slagging
  • 2British informal with object Criticize (someone) in an abusive and insulting manner.

    my girlfriend was always slagging him off
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There's no need for anyone to slag us off because they don't know us as people.
    • Although I'm a very powerful man my work chums slag me constantly for my Dublin accent and terrible stutter.
    • The thing about Ricky is - I mean, I'm not just trying to slag him off - he's a nightmare to work with.
    • They even slagged us off for asking the guests to donate money to charity instead of giving us presents.
    • I mean this is the guy who slagged the woman off every chance he got.
    • I slagged him off in the pub and everyone went a deadly quiet.
    • People slag me off because I'm a larger-than-life character, and that's part of my thing from the past - I lived my life very excessively.
    • When he does those anthologies he gets slagged by the critics but they're the books that sell and support everything else that he does.
    • People can think I'm stupid, they can slag me off, but I have tried to put forward both sides.
    • They slagged us off when we first started and said we wouldn't be around for five minutes.
    • As much as certain people like to slag him off, when Jones doesn't play I feel we really struggle for goals.
    • Meanwhile, Hain himself can slag people off just because they don't conform to his narrow vision of what constitutes a Brit.
    • It's definitely a chink in the armour for people being able to slag me.
    • I used to slag him that he was a redneck in a jackeen's body.
    • The thing about Rodney is you don't want to take him too seriously because he's slagged off everyone in the world.
    • Fair play to my team mates and everyone at the bar because no one slagged me.
    • It's kinda funny, people slagged us off for putting all the names on the press release and people still got it wrong.
    • Of course, if you don't care about that and just want to slag people off, that's a good way to do it.
    • I was utterly slagged off and called several names.
    • We all get on really well and I've never slagged anybody off.
    Synonyms
    criticize, find fault with, censure, denounce, condemn, arraign, attack, lambaste, pillory, disapprove of, carp at, cavil at, rail against, inveigh against, cast aspersions on, pour scorn on, disparage, denigrate, deprecate, malign, vilify, besmirch, run down, give a bad press to

Derivatives

  • slaggy

  • adjectiveslaggiest, slaggier
    • The whole of it waggled with unhealthy cushions of fat; it all hung, it was all slack and without structure - slaggy, gelatinous, sick.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Everyone must have some sympathy with Bible Belters and Muslims who point to the slaggy decadence of secular western culture.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Middle Low German slagge, perhaps from slagen 'strike', with reference to fragments formed by hammering. The verb sense 'criticize' dates from the 1970s.

  • Slag is from Middle Low German slagge, perhaps from slagen ‘strike’, with reference to fragments formed by hammering. From the sense of refuse developed a slang use meaning ‘worthless person’ in the late 18th century, which only developed the modern dominant sense ‘promiscuous woman’ in the mid 20th century. The verb sense ‘criticize’ as in slagged off, dates from the 1970s.

Rhymes

bag, blag, brag, Bragg, crag, dag, drag, flag, gag, hag, jag, lag, mag, nag, quag, rag, sag, scrag, snag, sprag, stag, swag, tag, wag, zag
 
 

Definition of slag in US English:

slag

nounslæɡslaɡ
  • 1Stony waste matter separated from metals during the smelting or refining of ore.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The concentrates are refined by smelting - they are melted, and the impurities are removed as a slag.
    • Some people had even died in slag slides, picking loose bits of coal in order to keep their homes heated.
    • The waste product slag was also increasingly used in road and house building.
    • By contrast, the lunar regolith ‘has a composition similar to mining slag.’
    • Ground granulated blast furnace slag is used in 53 % of councils in NSW and 23 % in VIC.
    • The road is unusually constructed of compacted iron slag.
    • Under suitable slag conditions vanadium, in quite small quantities, ‘cleans’ the steel and renders it free from slag inclusions.
    • The union has leveled 15 separate charges against Levy, a contractor at Mittal Steel USA, which performs slag processing and metal reclamation.
    • The hardened matter was slag, a waste product from metal working, and contained evidence of iron, copper and lead manufacture.
    • The blasts shot towards the small shielded orb and reduced the metal to molten slag.
    • Piles of black slag marked the entrances to small coal mines.
    • "Oh, it used to be a slag heap, " John said.
    • Tell me about Lehigh's interest in supplemental materials, like slag cement.
    • This artificial uranium mine is contained in the slag material from power station coal combustion and deposited in landfills.
    • Ores, slag and ash exports during the first seven months amounted to $644 million, up 77 per cent over the same period last year.
    • In highly developed countries, the major components of industrial waste are blast furnace and steel slag, and power station ash.
    • Vincent snorted, and turned the doorknob into molten slag once it had swung shut again.
    • In particular, tuyeres in the furnace became blocked with slag.
    • Blast furnaces are used to recycle slag, dross, and residues from other processes.
    • We started making turns around the slag piles at the mine.
    1. 1.1 Similar material produced by a volcano; scoria.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I watched, slightly shocked, as molten metal slag fell onto the glass, steaming.
      • It is usually caused by the scouring action of sand, gravel, slag, earth, and other gritty material.
      • Mineral fiber insulation, including fiber glass and rock wool, is produced from either molten glass, slag, or rock.
      • It was a more rustic and northern version of Detroit with escarpments of slag and iron ore.
      • Kerosene has been used to light pyres constructed of coal slag, old tyres and tar-soaked rail sleepers.
      • Thirdly, reduce the clinker content in cement, by intergrinding cementious material like slag, fly ash, or limestone.
      • The difference in densities of the molten iron and molten slag allow each material to be removed separately from the furnace.
      • There were areas of bare rock and slag, which were around old gold mines, according to the naturalist.
      • The stats and history of this limestone slag heap are impressive in their own right.
      • The increasing size of the slag pile poses an ongoing threat to the richest remaining prairie site.
      • The blasts shot towards the small shielded orb and reduced the metal to molten slag.
      • Two recycled cementitious materials come to mind immediately - fly ash and slag cement.
  • 2British derogatory, informal A woman who has many casual sexual encounters or relationships.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Not so many slags frequent this public house anymore - each time we go in there the ratio of men to women is rising.
    • Alastair's so used to working in a serious environment, he couldn't believe fellas were coming at him with slags.
    • If you look beyond the dehumanising stereotypes to the hard facts, it emerges that females in jail are not conniving slags.
    • The place was full of big bellied old West Ham supporters, complete with navy tattoos with the fat slags from Viz in tow.
    • Boys continued to make the same distinction between prospective wives and slags.
    • But as soon as a women starts to pick and choose who she sleeps with she gets called a slag.
    • The women are slags, either scrawny with straggly blonde hair, or grotesquely fat and bulging out of their tracksuit bottoms.
    • She told him Trev had called her a dirty slag after their drink the other night and had refused to sleep with her.
verbslæɡslaɡ
[no object]usually as noun slagging
  • Produce deposits of slag.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Middle Low German slagge, perhaps from slagen ‘strike’, with reference to fragments formed by hammering. The verb sense ‘criticize’ dates from the 1970s.

 
 
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