smelting

smelting

English

Verb

smelting

1. present participle of smelt

Noun

smelting (plural smeltings)

1. (metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:

     Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.

Derived terms

• smelt
• smelter

Translations

process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: please add this translation if you can Armenian: հալում (hy) (halum) Basque: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 冶煉／冶炼 (zh) (yěliàn), 熔煉／熔炼 (zh) (róngliàn) Dutch: wegsmelten (nl), smelten (nl) n Finnish: pelkistyssulatus, sulatus (fi) French: fonte (fr) f, fonderie (fr) German: Schmelzen (de) n Greek: Ancient: χώνευσις f (khṓneusis) Hebrew: הִתּוּךְ‎ m (hitúkh), זִקּוּק יָבֵשׁ‎ (he) m (zikúk yavéesh (of wood)) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Low German: German Low German: Smölten f or n Manx: lheie m Maori: whakarewa Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Portuguese: fundição (pt) f Russian: пла́вка (ru) f (plávka) Spanish: fundición (es) f Swedish: smältning (sv) Tagalog: magluto Turkish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• smelting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• meltings, minglest

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Old English

Alternative forms

• smilting, smyltinc, smylting

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *smeltan +‎ -ing. Compare Old High German smelzi, gismelzi (“fused mass, electrum, alloy”), Old Norse smeltr (“enamelled”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmel.tinɡ/, [ˈsmeɫ.tiŋɡ]

Noun

smelting f

1. amber

Declension

Declension of smelting (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	smelting	smeltinga, smeltinge
accusative	smeltinge	smeltinga, smeltinge
genitive	smeltinge	smeltinga
dative	smeltinge	smeltingum

Descendants

• Middle English: smulting