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"text": "In one corner of the closet was a very small furnace, with a glowing fire in it, and on the fire a kind of duplicate crucible—two crucibles connected by a tube. One of these crucibles was nearly full of lead in a state of fusion, but not reaching up to the aperture of the tube, which was close to the brim.",
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"text": "Coordinate term: trial by fire"
},
{
"ref": "1973 July 22 [1973 July 17], Kai-shek Chiang, “President Chiang Kai-shek's message to the mass rally supporting Captive Nations Week”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 28, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1",
"text": "We should give our support to the liberation of the captive nations of the world and deliver our compatriots from their crucible of suffering. In other words, we should take up the difficult task of reshaping the world’s destiny by destroying the tyrannical Communist rule now afflicting the earth and by delivering humankind from the Red holocaust.",
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"ref": "1982 July 3, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address",
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "kamin",
"sense": "bottom and hottest part of a blast furnace",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "קמין"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "bov",
"sense": "difficult and trying experience",
"word": "բով"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "difficult and trying experience",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "ildprøve"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "difficult and trying experience",
"word": "vuurproef"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "difficult and trying experience",
"word": "tulikoe"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "difficult and trying experience",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "épreuve du feu"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "difficult and trying experience",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "épreuve"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "difficult and trying experience",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Feuerprobe"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "difficult and trying experience",
"word": "tűzpróba"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "difficult and trying experience",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ciężka próba"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "difficult and trying experience",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "prova de fogo"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "suróvoje ispytánije",
"sense": "difficult and trying experience",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "суро́вое испыта́ние"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "difficult and trying experience",
"word": "prueba de fuego"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "difficult and trying experience",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pair"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "difficult and trying experience",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "profedigaeth"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"crucible"
],
"word": "crucible"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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