smelt
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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English smelt, from Old English smelt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaz.
Noun
smelt (plural smelts)
- Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
- (obsolete) A fool; a simpleton.
- c. 1615–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Loves Pilgramage, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies , London: Humphrey Robinson, , and for Humphrey Moseley , published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- These direct Men, they are no Men of fashion, Talk what you will , this is a very Smelt
Derived terms
Translations
fish of the family Osmeridae
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Etymology 2
From very early Middle English smel; likely to derive from Old English, but not recorded.
Verb
smelt
- simple past and past participle of smell
Etymology 3
From Middle Dutch smelten (“to melt”) or Middle Low German smelten (“to melt”), from Old Dutch *smeltan or Old Saxon smeltan, both from Proto-West Germanic *smeltan, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaną (“to melt”).
Related to English melt and Old English meltan (“to melt”). Cognate to Dutch smelten, German schmelzen.
Noun
smelt (countable and uncountable, plural smelts)
- Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
- Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
- 1982, Raymond E. Kirk and Donald F. Othmer, Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Wiley, →ISBN, page 405,
- The green liquor, ie, the solution obtained on dissolving the smelt, contains an insoluble residue called dregs, which gives it a dark green appearance.
- 1996, Arthur J. Wilson, The Living Rock: The Story of Metals Since Earliest Time and Their Impact on Civilization,
- When the smelt was complete the crucible could be lifted out and the metal poured directly into the moulds, thus avoiding the need to break it up and remelt
- 2000, Julian Henderson, The Science and Archaeology of Materials: An Investigation of Inorganic Materials,
- can vary in different positions in the furnace and during the smelt.
- Furnaces are unlikely to survive the smelts; all that often remains on metal production sites is just furnace bases and broken fragments of furnaces
- 2002, Jenny Moore, “Who Lights the Fire? Gender and the Energy of Production”, in Moira Donald and Linda Hurcombe (eds.), Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 130,
- Women are allowed to play some small part in the smelt if they are breastfeeding or post-menopausal (van der Merwe and Avery, 1988).
- 1982, Raymond E. Kirk and Donald F. Othmer, Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Wiley, →ISBN, page 405,
Quotations
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Translations
production of metal, especially iron, from ore — see smelting
any of the molten liquids involved in these processes
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Verb
smelt (third-person singular simple present smelts, present participle smelting, simple past and past participle smelted)
Translations
to fuse two things into one
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Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
smelt m (uncountable)
- a quantity of molten material
Verb
smelt
- inflection of smelten:
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English smelt, smylt, from Proto-West Germanic *smelt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
smelt
- smelt (fish)
Descendants
References
- “smelt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-20.
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
smelt
- imperative of smelte
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Participle
smelt (definite singular and plural smelte)
- past participle of smelta
Verb
smelt
- supine of smelta
- imperative of smelta
Etymology 2
Participle
smelt (definite singular and plural smelte)
- past participle of smella
Verb
smelt
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *smeltaz
Pronunciation
Noun
smelt m
- smelt (a fish)