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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024slag1 /slæg/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- Metallurgywaste matter, fused solid and left after separating metal from its ore.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024slag1 (slag),USA pronunciation n., v., slagged, slag•ging. n. - MetallurgyAlso called cinder. the more or less completely fused and vitrified matter separated during the reduction of a metal from its ore.
- Geologythe scoria from a volcano.
- Miningwaste left over after the re-sorting of coal.
v.t. - Metallurgyto convert into slag.
- Metallurgyto remove slag from (a steel bath).
v.i. - Metallurgyto form slag;
become a slaglike mass.
- Middle Low German slagge; cognate with German Schlacke dross, slag; see slack2
- 1545–55
slag′a•ble, adj. slag′a•bil′i•ty, n. slag′less, adj. slag′less•ness, n. slag2 (slag),USA pronunciation n. - [Brit. Slang.]an abusive woman.
- 1780–90; origin, originally an argot word for a worthless person or a thug; perh. identical with slag1
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