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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024smelt1 /smɛlt/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object]- Metallurgyto fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal in it.
- Metallurgyto obtain or refine (metal) in this way.
smelt2 /smɛlt/USA pronunciation n. [countable], pl. (esp. when thought of as a group) smelt, (esp. for kinds or species) smelts. - Fisha small, silvery food fish of cold northern waters.
smelt3 /smɛlt/USA pronunciation v. - a pt. and pp. of smell.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024smelt1 (smelt),USA pronunciation v.t. - Metallurgyto fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
- Metallurgyto obtain or refine (metal) in this way.
- Middle Dutch or Middle Low German smelten; cognate with German schmelzen to melt1, smelt
- probably 1535–45
- Fishany of various small, silvery food fishes of the family Osmeridae, of cold northern waters, as the North American rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax.
- Fishany of several superficially similar but unrelated fishes, esp. certain silversides, of California.
- bef. 900; Middle English, Old English; compare Norwegian smelta whiting
- a pt. and pp. of smell.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: smelt /smɛlt/ vb - (transitive) to extract (a metal) from (an ore) by heating
Etymology: 15th Century: from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch smelten; related to Old High German smelzan to melt smelt /smɛlt/ n ( pl smelt, smelts)- any marine or freshwater salmonoid food fish of the family Osmeridae, such as Osmerus eperlanus of Europe, having a long silvery body and occurring in temperate and cold northern waters
Etymology: Old English smylt; related to Dutch, Danish smelt, Norwegian smelta, German Schmelz smelt /smɛlt/ vb - a past tense and past participle of smell
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