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* {{anagrams|en|a=egilmnst|meltings|minglest}} |
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==Old English== |
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* {{alter|ang|smilting|smyltinc|smylting}} |
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===Etymology=== |
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From {{der|ang|gmw-pro|*smeltan}} {{suf|ang||-ing}}. Compare {{cog|goh|smelzi}}, {{m|goh|gismelzi|t=fused mass, electrum, alloy}}, {{cog|non|smeltr|t=enamelled}}. |
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===Pronunciation=== |
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* {{ang-IPA|smelting}} |
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===Noun=== |
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{{ang-noun|f|head=smelting}} |
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====Declension==== |
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{{ang-decl-noun-o-f|smelting}} |
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* {{desc|enm|smulting}} |
Revision as of 20:43, 29 November 2020
English
Verb
smelting
Noun
smelting (plural smeltings)
- (metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
- Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
Derived terms
Translations
process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
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See also
Anagrams
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *smeltan + -ing. Compare Old High German smelzi, gismelzi (“fused mass, electrum, alloy”), Old Norse smeltr (“enamelled”).
Pronunciation
Noun
smelting f
Declension
Declension of smelting (strong ō-stem)
Descendants
- Middle English: smulting
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- Old English terms suffixed with -ing
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Old English ō-stem nouns