how to pronounce clinker

/ˈklɪŋ.kəɹ/

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clinker is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of clinker in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… we call it clinker built thank you yeah …”

meanings of clinker

noun:

Hardened volcanic lava.
Someone or something that clinks.
A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
Fetters.
A style of boatbuilding using overlapping planks.

verb:

To convert or be converted into clinker.

name:

A surname.

clinker frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word clinker occurs in english on average 0.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics clinker can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that clinker can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) life, nature, and living environment;