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Definition: Slag |
SlagNoun1. The scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slag" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
Etymology: Slag \Slag\, noun. [Sw. slagg, or Low German slacke, whence German schlacke; originally, perhaps, the splinters struck off from the metal by hammering. See Slay, transitive verb]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | Non-metallic material formed during the treatment or purification of a metal, or substance resulting from the attack of a refractory product by materials in contact with it. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | The layer of various oxides and impurities which form on the surface of molten metal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Glass spilled on siege. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | The mixture of flux, impurities. . . which floats on the surface of molten metal. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Combustion residue consisting of non-combustible material and ash in sintered form; cf. flue gas, sintering. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. Material from the iron blast furnace, resulting from the fusion of fluxstone with coke ash and the siliceous and aluminous impurities remaining after separation of iron from the ore. Slag is also produced in steelmaking. Formerly a solid waste, slag is now utilized for various purposes, chiefly in construction b. A scoriaceous or cindery pyroclastic rock c. A British term for a friable shale with many fossils d. A substance formed in any one of several ways by chemical action and fusion at furnace operating temperatures: (1) in smelting operations, through the combination of a flux, such as limestone, with the gangue or waste portion of the ore; (2) in the refining of metals, by substances such as lime added for the purpose of effecting or aiding the refining; or (3) by chemical reaction between refractories and fluxing agents, such as coal ash, or between different types of refractories e. Partially fused mixture of spilled batch, overflowed glass, breeze coal, and clay from the siege f. The top layer of the multilayer melt formed during some smelting and refining operations. In smelting, it contains the gangue minerals and the flux; in most refining operations, the oxidized impurities g. Oxide liquids (exclusive of the commercial glasses) with a high melting temperature. (references) |
Multilingual Slang | Italian (troia). (references) |
Slang | Adjective. Source: The Oxford English Dictionary describes slag as; a piece of refuse matter separated from a metal in the process of smelting. It was also slang for a worthless person. Definition: A promiscuous girl. Context: When you are talking about a person who has a reputation with the other sex, you describe the person as a slag . Social Source: University of Reading, England. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
Slang in 1811 | SLAG. A slack-mettled fellow, one not ready to resent an affront. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Slag is the left-overs from the removal of non-metallic impurities during the smelting of metals.In nature the ores of metals such as iron, copper, lead, aluminium, and other metals are found in impure states, often oxidized and mixed in with silicates of other metals.
During smelting, when the ore is exposed to high temperatures, these impurities are separated from the molten metal and can be removed. The collection of compounds that is removed is the slag.
Different smelting processes produce different slags. The smelting of copper and lead, for instance, separates out a great deal of iron silicate. Slag from steel mills contains calcium, magnesium, and aluminum.
Slag has many commercial uses, and is rarely thrown away. It is often reprocessed to separate any other metals than it may contain. The remnants of this recovery can be used in cement, roadworks, and as fertilizer.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Slag."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SLAG | English | Safe launch angle gate | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SlagSynonyms: dross (n), scoria (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Calefaction | Cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot; slag. |
Uncleanness | Sordes, dregs, grounds, lees; argol; sediment, settlement heeltap; dross, drossiness; mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders. recrement, slag; scum, froth. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Slag |
| English words defined with "slag": basic slag ♦ cinder pig ♦ Deacon's process ♦ Forge cinder, Fritting ♦ Lava ware ♦ Mill cinder ♦ Prillion ♦ Scorification, Scorify, Scouring cinder, Slaggy ♦ Tap cinder. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "slag": air-cooled blast-furnace slag ♦ expanded blast-furnace slag, expanded slag ♦ falling slag ♦ granulated blast-furnace slag ♦ roaster slag ♦ slag blanket, slag buggy, slag car, slag dump, slag expander, slag hole, slag inclusion, slag lead, slag notch, slag runoff ♦ Thomas slag. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "slag": Cinder. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Slag" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (blow, butcher, slaughter), Danish (action, battle, blow, fight, scuffle, struggle), Dutch (accomplishment, action, agony, battle, blow, expertness, fight, grasp, kind, knock, movement, scuffle, skilfulness, skill, skillfulness, snare, sort, struggle, trap, turn), Faeroese (blow, breed, kind, race, sort, type), Hungarian (hose, hose-pipe), Icelandic (blow), Manx (slag ), Norwegian (beat, hit), Scottish (a hollow), Swedish (action, bang, battle, beat, bilge, blow, bust, clip, clout, cuff, cut, day, description, dye, fashion, fight, genre, genus, hit, impingement, jab, kidney, kind, knock, lape, lapel, larrup, lash, leg, lick, moment, nature, order, percussion, quality, scuffle, shock, slap, smack, species, stamp, strike, stroke, struggle, tack, tap, thump, turn, type, warbling, wham, whang). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Aww slag! (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) Me Slag say you full of viridian bologna (The Transformers: The Movie; writing credit: Ron Friedman) | |
Lyrics | To try and slag me down because I know you're right (When I come around; performing artist: Green Day) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Slag för slag (1959) De Slag van Marckem (1914) Et Slag for en sag (2003) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Dumping slag. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Woman and child picking coal from a slag heap. They are paid ten cents for each 100 pound sack, Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Slag heaps at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Coal miners coming from work. Slag heaps burning nearby. Maidsville, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Coke ovens and burning slag heaps make heavy impenetrable smoke over whole town, day and night. Longacre, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Production. Copper. Tapping copper slag at the Garfield, Utah smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Company. This plant is producing vast quantities of the copper needed for war purposes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Shack by burning slag heap on main country road near Mohegan, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Closeup of shack near burning slag heap on main county road near Mohegan, West Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Slag run-off from one of the open hearth furnaces of a steel mills, Republic Steel Corp., Youngstown, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ett slag for idrotten ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Ash and slag from steam-generating stations represent 80% of this quantity. (references) | |
Trade | Malaysia | Import licenses are required for a number of items, including arms and explosives; motor vehicles; certain drugs and chemicals; plants; soil; tin ore, slag or concentrates; and various essential foodstuffs. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Slag" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 87.65% of the time. "Slag" is used about 162 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 87.65% | 142 | 26,554 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 6.79% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.94% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.62% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 162 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "slag": basic slag ♦ expanded slag ♦ phosphatic slag ♦ remove the slag from ♦ slag concrete ♦ slag furnace ♦ slag heap ♦ slag hearth ♦ slag hole ♦ slag notch ♦ slag sand ♦ slag tap firing ♦ slag wool ♦ take off the slag ♦ Thomas slag. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "slag": slag-bank, slag-blowhole, slag-face, slag-heap, slag-heaps, slag-holes, Slag-ladies, slag-off. | |
Ending with "slag": electro-slag, nutty-slag. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "slag"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sterli, skorje (dross, sinter), shllak, zgjyrë (cinder, clinker, dross, grime, rust, scum), baltë xeherori. (various references) | |
Arabic | نفايا صهر المعدن الخام, وبخ (berate, blame, carpet, castigate, check, chide, dish up, dress down, jaw, lash, moralize, quarrel, rail, raspberry, rebuff, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, scotch, show up, slate, snub, strafe, take to task, take up, task, tell off, tick off, tickle, upbraid), خبث البراكين, الخبث (refuse), الجفاء, إمرأة قذرة (draggle-tail, trollop), إغتاب (back bite, detract, slander, tattle), ركام المعادن. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шлака (clinker, dross, salamander, scoria), лава (dejection, lava). (various references) | |
Chinese | 炉渣. (various references) | |
Czech | struska, cuchta, špindíra (slattern, sloven), škvára (cinder). (various references) | |
Danish | smedeskæl (clinker), slagger (ballast, bulk, bulking agents, clinker, dross, indigestible material), slagge (blast furnace slag, cinders, clinker), metalværksslagge (blast furnace slag), hammerskæl (clinker), glas spildt paa baenken (hearth glass), glødeskal (clinker, forge scale). (various references) | |
Dutch | slakkensplit (blast furnace slag), slakken (cinders), slak (cinder, slug, snail), morsglas (hearth glass), hoogovenslak (blast furnace slag), gebroken slak (blast furnace slag). (various references) | |
Farsi | فلزنیم سوخته , مزخرف (Absurd, Baloney, Ludicrous, Nonsense, Nonsensical, Tawdry, Trashy), چرک (Dingy, Dirt, Dirty, Frowzy, Guck, Impure, Lymph, Pus, Puss, Sordid, Squawk), کف (Apron, Blubber, Bottom, Foam, Insole, Scum, Silt), گدازاتشفشانی , تفاله گرفتن از, تفاله (Bagasse, Crap, Dross, Ross, Scum, Slop), خاکستر (Ash, Cinder), اشغال (Dump, Jakes, Junk, Litter, Occupancy, Occupation, Refuse, Riffraff, Rubbish, Scrap, Slither, Sliver, Swill, Tenure, Tot, Trash), درده (Lees, Sediment, Sedimentary, Silt, Tartar). (various references) | |
Finnish | kuona (dross). (various references) | |
French | scories. (various references) | |
German | Schlacke (cinder, cinders, clinker, dross, scoria, waste products), Asche (ash, ashes, cinder, cinders, ember, ruins). (various references) | |
Greek | σκωρία (clinker, rust, rustiness, scoria). (various references) | |
Hebrew | סי' (dross). (various references) | |
Hungarian | salak (cinder, clinker, dirt, dross, recrement, scale, scum, sludge), ribanc (bang, bimbo, drab, pickup, polecat), lotyó (moll, trollop), cafka (floosie, floosy, floozie, floozy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | arang (charcoal, cinder, coke), ampas biji. (various references) | |
Italian | scoria (dross, scoria, waste). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鉱" . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "うさい (acquaintance, association, brilliance, clever speech, company, friendship, High Court, iris, judicial decision, public bond or securities, public debt, society, splendour), "うし (calf, company, Confucius, Crown Prince, edict, exercise, filial child, firm, government and people, heir, hind leg, Imperial Heir, kind intention, kind thought, lattice, lecturer, man of noble character, minister, national examinations, official and personal, pearly white teeth, photon, public and private, public announcement, reform, renewal, successor, use, young nobleman). (various references) | |
Korean | 광재. (various references) | |
Manx | slag. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | agslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | jorra (clinker), escória (cinder, dirt, dreg, dregs, dross, raffle, refuse, scobs, scoria, scum, spoilage, trash). (various references) | |
Romanian | scorie (dross), zgurifica, zgurã (cinder, cinders, clinker, dross, foam, scale, scoria, scum, sinter). (various references) | |
Russian | шлак (clinker, scobs, scoria, scoriae, sinter). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zgura (scrum), šljaka (clinker, dross, slack). (various references) | |
Spanish | escoria (clinker, dress, dross, scoria, scum). (various references) | |
Swedish | slagg (cinder, clinkers, dross). (various references) | |
Thai | เป็นขี้แร่, เปลี่ยนให้เป็นกากแร่, เศษแร่, หญิงที่เป็นคู่ขา (slapper). (various references) | |
Turkish | mucur olmak, mucur, kömür kırıntısı, fahişe (bitch, bum, call girl, courtesan, courtezan, drab, fancy woman, floozy, harlot, hooker, hustler, Moll, night walker, painted woman, pro, prostitute, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, trollop, trull, whore), dışık, cüruflaşmak, cüruf haline getirmek, cüruf (cinders, clinker, dross, scoria), basit kadın. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шлак (cinder, clinker, dross, scar, scoria, sinter), пориста лава. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | su-he. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | scoria, scoriam. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "slag": slagged, slaggier, slaggiest, slagging, slaggy, slags. (additional references) | |
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"Slag" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aslaug, blag, Csillag, klag, lsa, lsg, Salg, salgo, Saligo, sbag, scag, selag, Selig, Sellaeg, siag, sla, slac, slaf, slage, slagg, slags, slaq, slar, slax, slaz, sleg, slege, slej, slig, sloag, slogg, sluagh, slugg, smag, spag, splag, sqag. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "slag" (pronounced sla"g) |
| 3 | -l a" g | flag, lag. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gals, lags. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-l-s" | |
-1 letter: als, gal, gas, lag, las, sag, sal. | |
-2 letters: ag, al, as, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-l-s" | |
+1 letter: algas, clags, flags, galas, gales, galls, gaols, glads, glans, glass, glias, goals, slags, slang. | |
+2 letters: aglets, algins, algors, algums, aligns, almugs, angels, angles, argals, argils, argles, argols, bagels, belgas, clangs, eagles, gables, galahs, galeas, gallus, galops, galosh, gaslit, gaults, gavels, gayals, glaces, glacis, glades, glairs, glands, glares, glassy, glazes, gleams, gleans, gloams, gloats, glossa, gnarls, gorals, graals, grails, gulags, lagans, lagers, laighs, larges, largos, lasing, laughs, legals, liangs, ligans, ligase, lingas, logans, plages, sagely, sawlog, signal, silage, slaggy, slangs, slangy, slogan, stalag, valgus. | |
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