melting pot
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- noun
- /ˈmɛltɪŋ pɑt/
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crisol
Examples
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We went to the melting pot, Melting pot fondue place.
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They're just throwing things into the Warcraft melting pot with gleeful abandon.
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The scientist used a melting pot to combine various metals at high temperatures for their experiment.
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In the workshop, they heated the materials in a melting pot to create new alloys for their jewelry.
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A ceramic melting pot is essential for any artist working with glass to ensure proper fusing.
Synonyms
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A small hard container used to heat or melt things at very high heat
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Morphology
The constituents 'melt' (to blend/lose distinctness) and 'pot' (a vessel) combine to form a straightforward visual metaphor of things blending together, so a learner who knows both words can usually infer it refers to mixing. However, the socio-cultural sense of people and cultures fusing into a new, unified community is a metaphorical extension and carries nuance that may not be fully predictable without prior exposure; similar concepts exist in other languages but often with different lexicalizations.
Etymology
Melting pot originally meant a strong pot used to heat metal until melting, so different metals could join into one liquid. So it names a container used for melting and mixing materials.