pajahilse — meaning in English

English meaning

• clinker noun A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
• scale noun The size, extent, or proportion of something, especially compared to something else.

Senses

pajahilse is used for these senses in English:

• clinker A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging. [from 19th c.]
• scale (uncountable) The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.

clinker — full definition

1. noun A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
2. noun A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
3. noun Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
4. noun 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.

scale — full definition

1. noun The size, extent, or proportion of something, especially compared to something else.
2. noun A series of marked measurements used for comparison, such as on a ruler, map, or rating system.
3. noun One of the small, hard, overlapping plates covering the skin of fish and reptiles.
4. noun An instrument for measuring weight.
5. verb To increase or decrease something in size while keeping its proportions, especially to grow a business or process.

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