to smelt
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- verb
- /smɛlt/
- Specialized
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fundir
- Before creating new products, the factory needs to smelt aluminum scrap into usable ingots.
- smelting iron
- smelting ore
Look, they've got everybody from me to a guy who smelts steel.
- Look, they've got everybody from me to a guy who smelts steel.
- So they smelted down or melted down the gold somewhere near Bristol.
- Ben Francis's grandfather works, still works I think in like some smelting place in Birmingham, like it's fucking Peaky Blinders.
Examples
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While iron ore is plentiful in the United States and many countries around the world, the process of smelting iron ore into steel is energy-intensive.
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But if you can smelt them together, then you create bronze, which is actually very hard.
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So they smelted down or melted down the gold somewhere near Bristol.
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Iron ore, found all over the mountain, was smelted and exchanged for other products in many places.
Academic text (1998) -
For this reason, a certain percentage of the ores smelted have to be high in sulfur.
Academic text (1996) -
We were able to film everything from gathering the iron sand, to smelting the iron, forging the sword, to sharpening and polishing it.
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The workers began to smelt copper ore in the large furnace to extract the metal.
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Ancient civilizations would smelt metals to craft tools and weapons for daily use.
Idioms
- Baby Talk
A joking way to say the person who first noticed a bad smell caused it
- Informal
A joking way to blame the person who notices a bad smell for making it
Compounds
- Specialized
A small silvery fish from rivers and coasts of eastern North America and Alaska eaten as food
A small thin silver fish found in European rivers and coasts with a mild taste
A small silvery fish from North America that lives in fresh and coastal waters and is often eaten as food
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Etymology
Smelt (the verb) comes from an old word smeltan meaning 'to melt'. So, to smelt metal is to heat and melt ore to take the metal out.