smelt

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal. countable,uncountable
  3. A fool; a simpleton. obsolete
    — These direct Men, they are no Men of fashion, Talk what you will, this is a very Smelt
  4. Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production. countable,uncountable
    — 1982, Raymond E. Kirk and Donald F. Othmer, Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Wiley, →ISBN, page 405, The green liquor, ie, [sic] the solution obtained on dissolving the smelt, contains an insoluble residue called dregs, which gives it a dark green appearance.
动词 v.
  1. simple past and past participle of smell form-of,participle,past
  2. To produce metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.

词形变化

smelt plural smelts plural smelts plural smelts present,singular,third-person smelting participle,present smelted participle,past smelted past

词汇关系

衍生词
blacksmelt European smelt Japanese pond smelt Japanese smelt sand smelt

词源

词源 1
From Middle English smelt, from Old English smelt, from Proto-West Germanic *smelt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaz.
词源 2
From very early Middle English smelte; likely to derive from Old English, but not recorded.
词源 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.
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