Sinter vs Skinter - What's the difference?
sinter | skinter |
(geology) An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.
* 1883 June, John Magens Mello, , Volume 23,
* 1913 , David Paul Gooding, , Chapter V,
A mass formed by sintering.
* 2008 , John Banhart, Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering ,
A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace.
To compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.
* 1980 , '', in ''Proceedings of the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study ,
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(skint)
(slang, British, Australian) Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
As a noun sinter
is dogcatcher.As an adjective skinter is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- 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,
- It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter .
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- Consider a copper sinter' material with spherical ' sinter particles in an early stage of the sintering process, see Fig. 3.5(a).
Verb
(en verb)- Most, if not all, metals may be sintered .