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Sinter vs Pinter - What's the difference?

sinter | pinter |

As nouns the difference between sinter and pinter

is that sinter is an alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring while pinter is the drinking of a certain number of pints of beer.

As a verb sinter

is to compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.

sinter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (geology) An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.
  • * 1883 June, John Magens Mello, , Volume 23,
    • That water at a high temperature can hold quartz in solution is well illustrated by the deposits of silicious sinter , thrown down by thermal springs,
  • * 1913 , David Paul Gooding, , Chapter V,
    • It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter .
  • A mass formed by sintering.
  • * 2008 , John Banhart, Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering , page 55,
    • Consider a copper sinter' material with spherical ' sinter particles in an early stage of the sintering process, see Fig. 3.5(a).
  • A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.
  • * 1980 , '', in ''Proceedings of the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study ,
    • Most, if not all, metals may be sintered .
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    pinter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (in combinations, UK, slang) The drinking of a certain number of pints of beer
  • (in combinations, UK, slang) A container that holds a certain number of pints.
  • * 2006 , Martyn J. Pass, Dani Pass, Waiting for Red (page 262)
    • “Anyway, I'd best get a shuffle on. Got to pick some milk up, you see.” “I've just been too.” Sure enough he showed the hedgehog a four-pinter .
  • (in combinations, UK, slang) Something that takes a certain number of pints of beer to appreciate.
    • She's so ugly, an eight-pinter , I'd say.
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