ingot
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- noun
- /ˈɪŋɡət/
- Specialized
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lingote
- Murphy has stepped forward, taking an ingot and inspecting it.
- aluminum ingot
- steel ingot
- ingot contract
Examples
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Murphy hurries to it, collecting ingots and putting them in his pockets.
Fiction book (2002) -
I mean, does a mining company usually leave gold ingots lying around like that?
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The product is an ingot of a single silicon crystal.
Academic text (1994) -
What they get... is 30 million in gold ingots.
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First we're gonna need some iron ingots.
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The ingot at left is being worked at the 10,000-ton press at Lehigh Heavy Forge.
Academic text (2012) -
We dismantle it here, reduce the gold in this special furnace to ingots, which in turn will be released on the board and weigh approximately two tons.
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American contracts for aluminum ingot were called for by Washington's war bureaucracy and negotiated with Alcan early in 1941.
Academic text (2004) -
Nothing remains of the Incas' precious metalwork, melted down into ingots for the royal mints at Toledo and Seville.
Fiction book (1991) -
The box slipped from their hands, spilling its contents of gold ingots onto the ground.
Synonyms
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An object made by pouring liquid into a mold until it becomes hard
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An object made by pouring liquid into a mold that hardens
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Etymology
The word ingot comes from an old French word lingot that meant a 'small bar' of metal, so an ingot is a shaped block of metal made for storage or later use.