Crossword clues for charring
charring
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Char \Char\ (ch[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Charred (ch[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Charring.] [Prob. the same word as char to perform (see Char, n.), the modern use coming from charcoal, prop. coal-turned, turned to coal.]
To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. The incomplete combustion of organic material. vb. (present participle of char English)
WordNet
See char
n. a charred substance
a human female who does housework; "the char will clean the carpet" [syn: charwoman, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman]
any of several small-scaled trout
v. burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" [syn: coal]
burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling" [syn: blacken, scorch]
Wikipedia
Charring is a chemical process of incomplete combustion of certain solids when subjected to high heat. The resulting residue matter is called char. By the action of heat, charring removes hydrogen and oxygen from the solid, so that the remaining char is composed primarily of carbon. Polymers like thermoset, or most solid organic compounds like wood or biological tissue, exhibit charring behaviour.
Charring can result from naturally occurring processes like fire; it is also a deliberate and controlled reaction used in the manufacturing of certain products.
The mechanism of charring is part of the normal burning of certain solid fuels like wood. During normal combustion, the volatile compounds created by charring are consumed at the flames within the fire or released to the atomosphere, while combustion of char can be seen as glowing red coals or embers which burn without the presence of flames.
Usage examples of "charring".
The General bounded over the field past charring hulks, into a range where there were no other living Red tanks but his.
He was exquisitely aware of Clare's agony, and the reek of charring flesh and burning blood.
Later in the Pot, the Liquid charring itself toward Vileness appeals more to those looking for bodily stimuli, like Dixon, who is able to sip the most degradedly awful pot's-end poison and yet beam like an Idiot, "Mm-m m!
Without the protective white covering, the scene was more repellent than before, the extent of the devastation more clearly and dishearteningly evident, and the stench of oil and charring more pungent and penetrating.
But the burning wasn't complete, a lot of alligatoring, a lot of surface charring.
So Evagh fetched water in urns from the sea and cast it upon the ashes and charrings so that he might approach the corpses.
And then on to the next house, while behind the flames lick up, blistering the enamels, cracking the porcelain, charring the polished wood, blackening the bright paint, smouldering the silks and rugs, crackling under the eaves.
Meanwhile, she'd do a bit of charring to earn her keep, maybe offer to clean some of the rooms in the lodging house for a few pence.
He smelt olive wood and pine, kerosene, dry thorn, resin, oil, and charring flesh.
The lady did, as I have intimated, a bit of charring, a bit of plain sewing, and also derived no small revenue from her vegetables and fruit, thus managing, as she owned the free-hold of the premises, to make a decent living for herself and child.
She shook the yoke in her hand, spraying fire around as though using a nozzle to water a patch of grass, and saw one of the beams strike home, charring a hole in the starfighter's port solar array wing.