Synonyms of the word slag


SLAGCONVERT - DROSS - SCORIA - SCUM

slag

  • n. Waste material from a coal mine.
  • n. Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
  • n. Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
  • n. Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
  • n. Scoria associated with a volcano.
  • n. (Britain, pejorative, dated) A coward.
  • n. (Britain, chiefly Cockney, pejorative) A contemptible person, a scumbag.
  • n. (Britain, pejorative) A prostitute.
  • n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang, pejorative) A woman (sometimes a man) who has loose morals relating…
  • v. (transitive) To produce slag.
  • v. (intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
  • v. (transitive, with "off") To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
  • v. (intransitive, Australia, slang) To spit.

convert

  • n. A person who has converted to a religion.
  • n. A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
  • v. (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
  • v. (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
  • v. (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense…
  • v. (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
  • v. (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
  • v. (transitive) To express (a unit of measure) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by…
  • v. (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
  • v. (soccer) To score (a penalty).
  • v. (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
  • v. (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
  • v. (intransitive) To become converted.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
  • v. (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs…

dross

  • n. Waste or impure matter.
  • n. Worthless or trivial matter.
  • n. Residue that forms on the surface of a metal from oxidation.
  • n. The impurities in metal.
  • n. A waste product from working with metal.
  • v. (transitive) To remove dross from.

scoria

  • n. The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore.
  • n. (geology) Rough masses of rock formed by solidified lava, and which can be found around a volcano's crater.

scum

  • n. (uncountable) A layer of impurities that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially molten metal…
  • n. (uncountable) A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surface of ponds.
  • n. The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, chiefly US) semen.
  • n. (countable, derogatory, slang) A reprehensible person or persons.
  • v. To remove the layer of scum from (a liquid etc.).
  • v. To remove (something) as scum.
  • v. To become covered with scum.
  • v. (obsolete) To scour (the land, sea etc.).
  • v. (obsolete) To gather together, as scum.
  • v. (video games, informal) To startscum or savescum.

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