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clinker1 /ˈklɪŋkə /noun [mass noun]1The stony residue from burnt coal or from a furnace.The expected decrease of duty on cement and clinker from Rs 400 per tonne to Rs 350 per tonne didn't happen....- At its peak the mix reaches 1, 450C before exiting as a hard, gritty material called clinker.
- To the extent possible, the concrete mixture should incorporate Portland cement of one type, made with clinker from a single source, and manufactured at the same plant.
1.1 (also clinker brick) [count noun] A brick with a vitrified surface: [as modifier]: clinker-brick walls...- Beneath the city's dense urban forest, low walls of Arroyo Seco stone and clinker brick front brown-shingled homes with porches set under graceful overhangs.
- It will take about 1500 whole bricks, clinkers.
- Remaindered brick packs - rough clinkers, chocolate browns, flash fired silvers - were placed randomly along the south elevation, to be laid as required.
Origin Mid 17th century: from obsolete Dutch klinckaerd (earlier form of klinker), from klinken 'to clink'. Rhymes blinker, drinker, finca, freethinker, Glinka, Inca, inker, jinker, shrinker, sinker, Soyinka, stinker, stotinka, thinker, tinker, Treblinka, winker clinker2 /ˈklɪŋkə /noun informal1North American Something that is unsatisfactory, of poor quality, or a failure: marketing couldn’t save such clinkers as these films...- I was in the movie business, did some good movies, did a couple of clinkers.
- So, updates will come a little quicker now, this was the clinker.
- Luckily, the duo doesn't settle on such clinkers.
1.1A wrong musical note: a string breaks, you hit a clinker, you forget where you are in a piece...- Suddenly, I hit an obvious clinker with my right hand - a wrong note that had never happened before and that sounded pretty stupid.
- After so many hits, the law of averages demanded a clinker from the Kennedy Center's Sondheim Celebration, and got it with A Little Night Music.
- It seemed to me that she wasn't traumatized at the end with the clinker.
2British dated Something or someone excellent or outstanding: she was a real clinker Origin Late 17th century (denoting a person or thing that clinks): from clink1 + -er1. (sense 2) dates from the mid 19th century, (sense 1) from the 1930s. |