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Cinder vs Kinder - What's the difference?

cinder | kinder |

As a proper noun cinder

is a river in alaska.

As a noun kinder is

kindergarten.

cinder

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Partially or mostly burnt material that results from incomplete combustion of coal or wood etc.
  • An ember.
    • (Jonathan Swift)
  • Slag from a metal furnace.

    • Derived terms

    * cinder block * cinder cone * cinder frame * cinder notch

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to reduce something to cinders

    • See also

    * Cinderella * scoria

    Anagrams

    * *

    kinder

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (kind)
    • My friends are kinder than teachers

    Anagrams

    *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en-plural noun)
  • children.
  • * 2008 December 31, Al Scaduto, They'll Do It Every Time (newspaper comic):
    • But - let wifey leave him with the kinder while out shopping...
  • * 2010 , Beth Rubin, Frommer's Washington D.C. with Kids , John Wiley & Sons (ISBN 9780470648506)
    • Of special interest to the kinder are The Children&
  • 39;s Place, Baby Gap, Gap Kids and Gap, Gymboree, The Limited, America!, and the Sweet Factory.
  • * 2012 , Charlotte Druckman, Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen , Chronicle Books (ISBN 9781452121307), page 192
    • Do note, as Goin mentions, this is a policy better implemented when the kinder are well past infancy.
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