pig
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9.7
- noun
- /pɪg/
- Specialized
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lingote
- After the smelting process, the workers poured molten pig iron into molds.
- pig iron
Cast iron, pig iron was not very wasn't capable of much capacity in the building industry.
- Cast iron, pig iron was not very wasn't capable of much capacity in the building industry.
Examples
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Cast iron, pig iron was not very wasn't capable of much capacity in the building industry.
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My guys and I go to the meet; we find a truck full of pig iron.
Fiction book (2001) -
Zhang produces nickel Matt, also known as nickel pig iron, a low grade ferro nickel mined in Indonesia.
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The factory used large quantities of pig iron to manufacture heavy machinery.
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In metal processing, pig iron is often a crucial ingredient for making steel.
Synonyms
1
4.9
People pour hot iron from a furnace into bars to be made into steel later
Blocks of lead made for storage or moving
Pure iron made directly from iron ore without recycled metal
Iron that has a lot of waste material and is poor for making steel
Idioms
- Offensive
1
8.0
To behave in a greedy and messy way, often when eating with others
- Informal
1
8.4
To make small changes to something bad so it looks better without fixing the real problem
- Informal
1
9.9
To buy something without checking it first and risk being cheated
Compounds
3
6.6
A very young pig that still drinks its mother's milk, often cooked whole for roasting
- Specialized
1
4.9
People pour hot iron from a furnace into bars to be made into steel later
- Specialized
A small bush with narrow leaves and red flowers that is poisonous to young farm animals
- Specialized
A deep-sea animal that looks like a fat sea cucumber and crawls on the ocean floor
How Processed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pig for a block of metal comes from old casting work where melted metal was poured from a main channel called a sow into small molds that looked like piglets, so the small bars were called 'pigs' and the name stayed for those metal pieces.