smeltとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /smɛlt/
• 韻: -ɛlt

語源 1

From 中期英語 smelt, from 古期英語 smelt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaz.

名詞

smelt (plural smelt or smelts)

1. Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
2. (obsolete) A fool; a simpleton.
   • c. 1615–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Loves Pilgramage, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     These direct Men, they are no Men of fashion, Talk what you will, this is a very Smelt

派生語

語源 2

From very early 中期英語 smel; likely to derive from 古期英語, but not recorded.

動詞

smelt

1. simple past and past participle of smell

語源 3

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”).

Related to English melt and 古期英語 meltan (“to melt”). Cognate to Dutch smelten, German schmelzen.

名詞

smelt (countable and uncountable, plural smelts)

1. Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
2. Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
   • 1982, Raymond E. Kirk and Donald F. Othmer, Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Wiley, →ISBN, page 405,

     The green liquor, ie, [sic] the solution obtained on dissolving the smelt, contains an insoluble residue called dregs, which gives it a dark green appearance.

   • 1996, Arthur J. Wilson, The Living Rock: The Story of Metals Since Earliest Time and Their Impact on Civilization,

     When the smelt was complete the crucible could be lifted out and the metal poured directly into the moulds, thus avoiding the need to break it up and remelt […]

   • 2000, Julian Henderson, The Science and Archaeology of Materials: An Investigation of Inorganic Materials,

     […] can vary in different positions in the furnace and during the smelt.

     Furnaces are unlikely to survive the smelts; all that often remains on metal production sites is just furnace bases and broken fragments of furnaces […]

   • 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,

     Women are allowed to play some small part in the smelt if they are breastfeeding or post-menopausal (van der Merwe and Avery, 1988).

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:smelt.

動詞

smelt (third-person singular simple present smelts, present participle smelting, simple past and past participle smelted)

1. To produce metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.

アナグラム

• melts

発音

• IPA: /smelt/, [smeɫt]

名詞

smelt m

1. smelt (a fish)

語源

From 古期英語 smelt, smylt, from Proto-West Germanic *smelt, from Proto-Germanic *smeltaz.

発音

• IPA: /smɛlt/

名詞

smelt

1. smelt (fish)

派生した語

• English: smelt
• Scots: smelt

参照

• “smelt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 March 2019.