Smelt
[smelt] or [smɛlt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters.
(noun.) small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water.
(verb.) extract (metals) by heating.
錄入:卢--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(-) of Smell
(-) imp. & p. p. of Smell.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. They are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste.
(n.) A gull; a simpleton.
(v. i.) To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin.
赛勒斯錄入
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Fuse (as ore), melt.
整理:普雷斯利
解釋/意思:
n. a fish of the salmon or trout family having a cucumber-like smell and a delicious flavour.
v.t. to melt ore in order to separate the metal.—ns. Smel′ter; Smel′tery a place for smelting; Smel′ting; Smel′ting-fur′nace -house -works.
編輯:朱利叶斯
例句/造句/用法:
- And what is more he smelt of death. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He smelt it--tasted it--smiled benignantly--then said: It is inferior--for coffee--but it is pretty fair tea. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He was back in a moment, and I smelt a strong reek of brandy as he passed me. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The humbled mutineer smelt it, tasted it, and returned to his seat. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- While this was going on, Mr. Pickwick had been eyeing the room, which was filthily dirty, and smelt intolerably close. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The more he polished the worse I smelt. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- True, said George, but it seems as if I smelt the free air, and it makes me strong. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Once smelting was known to men, there is no great marvel in the finding of iron. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It is a clay fire-hardened furnace for smelting iron. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The early smelting furnaces of Germany resembled the Catalan, and were called the Stückofen, and in Sweden were known as the Osmund. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The gigantic expansion of the iron and steel industry was foreshadowed in the change from wood to coal in the smelting furnaces. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- There is an opening in front about a foot or more in height which is filled with clay at the commencement, and broken down at the end of each smelting operation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Between that time and 1770 he practised melting small pieces of blistered steel (iron bars which had been carbonised by smelting in charcoal) in closed clay crucibles. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The smelting of ore by charcoal in those places where carried on extensively required the use of a vast amount of wood, and denuded the surrounding lands of forests. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- They smelted iron by blowing up a charcoal fire, and wrought it by heating and hammering. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There is clear evidence that they smelted iron ore as early as 3400 B..maintaining a blast by means of leather tread-bellows. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
錄入:洛伦佐