slag meaning
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[slæɡ] [-æɡ] WSlag
- Slag is the glass-like by-product left over after a desired metal has been separated (i.e., smelted) from its raw ore. Slag is usually a mixture of metal oxides and silicon dioxide. However, slags can contain metal sulfides and elemental metals.
- NounPLslags
- Waste material from a coal mine.
- Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
- Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders.
- Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
- Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
- Scoria associated with a volcano.
- (Britain, pejorative, dated) A coward.
- (Britain, chiefly Cockney, pejorative) A contemptible person, a scumbag.
- (Britain, pejorative) A prostitute.
- (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, slang, pejorative) A woman (sometimes a man) who has loose morals relating to sex; a slut.
- Waste material from a coal mine.
- VerbSGslagsPRslaggingPT, PPslagged
- (transitive) To produce slag.
- (intransitive) To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point.
- (transitive, with "off") To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To spit.
- (transitive) To produce slag.
Definition of slag in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "slag" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.