"melanger" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "melangeur"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1925, Matthew D. Berman, The how and why of Candy Making, page 357",
          "text": "The next morning, pass this over a three roll refiner, return to the melanger, add the balance of the cocoa butter, run it for twenty minutes, then put it over the rolls again. Return this batch to the warm room for twenty-four hours, then remove[,] temper and use.",
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          "ref": "2007, Michael D'Antonio, Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams, Simon and Schuster, page 70",
          "text": "The centerpieces were the conches, which mixed ingredients for hours on end, and the melanger. […] Weighing ten tons, the melanger was a huge, round, polished steel tub with a smooth granite bottom, which was heated from […]",
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Dom Ramsey, Chocolate: Indulge Your Inner Chocoholic, Become a Bean-to-Bar Expert, Penguin, page 47",
          "text": "THE CONCHING PROCESS\nThe friction of the granite wheels in this melanger creates heat to conche chocolate—this action is very similar to the movement of metal rollers in traditional conching machines. A metal drum or basin contains the [ingredients].",
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        "Alternative form of melangeur"
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/məˈlɑnʒɚ/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "melanger"
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          "ref": "1925, Matthew D. Berman, The how and why of Candy Making, page 357",
          "text": "The next morning, pass this over a three roll refiner, return to the melanger, add the balance of the cocoa butter, run it for twenty minutes, then put it over the rolls again. Return this batch to the warm room for twenty-four hours, then remove[,] temper and use.",
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          "ref": "2007, Michael D'Antonio, Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams, Simon and Schuster, page 70",
          "text": "The centerpieces were the conches, which mixed ingredients for hours on end, and the melanger. […] Weighing ten tons, the melanger was a huge, round, polished steel tub with a smooth granite bottom, which was heated from […]",
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        },
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          "ref": "2016, Dom Ramsey, Chocolate: Indulge Your Inner Chocoholic, Become a Bean-to-Bar Expert, Penguin, page 47",
          "text": "THE CONCHING PROCESS\nThe friction of the granite wheels in this melanger creates heat to conche chocolate—this action is very similar to the movement of metal rollers in traditional conching machines. A metal drum or basin contains the [ingredients].",
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      "ipa": "/məˈlɑnʒɚ/"
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