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"text": "1982, Raymond E. Kirk and Donald F. Othmer, Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Wiley, →ISBN, page 405,\nThe green liquor, ie, [sic] the solution obtained on dissolving the smelt, contains an insoluble residue called dregs, which gives it a dark green appearance."
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"text": "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,\nWomen are allowed to play some small part in the smelt if they are breastfeeding or post-menopausal (van der Merwe and Avery, 1988)."
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*smeltan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *smeltan",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*smeltaną",
"4": "",
"5": "to melt"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *smeltaną (“to melt”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "melt"
},
"expansion": "English melt",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "meltan",
"3": "",
"4": "to melt"
},
"expansion": "Old English meltan (“to melt”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "smelten"
},
"expansion": "Dutch smelten",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "schmelzen"
},
"expansion": "German schmelzen",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "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”).\nRelated to English melt and Old English meltan (“to melt”). Cognate to Dutch smelten, German schmelzen.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "smelts",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "smelting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "smelted",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "smelted",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "smelt (third-person singular simple present smelts, present participle smelting, simple past and past participle smelted)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To fuse or melt two things into one, especially in order to extract metal from ore; to meld."
],
"links": [
[
"fuse",
"fuse"
],
[
"melt",
"melt"
],
[
"ore",
"ore"
],
[
"meld",
"meld"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈsmɛlt/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛlt"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-smelt.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-smelt.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-smelt.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d2/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-smelt.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-smelt.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "stopjavam",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"word": "стопявам"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"word": "冶煉"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yěliàn",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"word": "冶炼"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"word": "熔煉"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "róngliàn",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"word": "熔炼"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"word": "sulattaa"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"word": "fundir"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"word": "verschmelzen"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "khōneúō",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"word": "χωνεύω"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"word": "fondere"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"word": "fundir"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "splávitʹ",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "спла́вить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "splavljátʹ",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сплавля́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"word": "fundir"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"word": "soldar"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"word": "tugnawin"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "to fuse two things into one",
"word": "melebur"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"smelt (disambiguation)"
],
"word": "smelt"
}
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