melting potn.

Brit.

/ˈmɛltɪŋ pɒt/, U.S.

/ˈmɛltɪŋ ˌpɑt/

Forms: see melting n.¹ and pot n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: melting n.¹, pot n.¹

Etymology: < melting n.¹ + pot n.¹

1. A vessel in which metals or other materials are melted and mixed.In quot. 1700 in an extended metaphor.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > vessels

crossletc1386

testc1386

cruciblea1475

spoon1496

melting pot1545

cruset1558

fining pot1560

hooker1594

cupel1605

crusoile1613

crisol1622

melt pot1637

muffle1644

crevet1658

coffin1686

sand-pot1758

Hessian crucible1807

pan1839

shank1843

casting-pot1846

king pot1862

converter1867

washpot1879

1420–1 in N. S. B. Gras Early Eng. Customs Syst. (1918) 504 (MED) Meltyngpotts.

1545 Rates Custome House sig. b viij Meltynge pottes for goldsmethes.

1610 J. Davies Panegyricke in R. Vaughan Water-workes sig. B4 His Royall Trench, is as his melting Pott, Whence issues Liquid-gold the Vale to gild!

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 168 The Poot it self almost twice the length of the depth of the Melting Pot.

1700 R. Blackmore Satyr against Wit 9 Into the melting Pot when D[ryde]n comes, What horrid Stench will rise, what noisome Fumes?

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Collet Collet, in the glass trade, that part of a glass vessel, which in the making, sticks to the hollow iron by which the metal is first taken out of the melting pot.

1875 W. S. Jevons Money viii. 81 Garbling, the coinage, devoting the good new coins to the melting-pot, and passing the old worn coins into circulation again.

1902 N.E.D. at Quarl, Quarle sb.¹ A large brick or tile..used to form supports for melting-pots, retort-covers, etc.

1978 R. P. Singhal Home Plumber's Bible iv. 117 Several tools are required: a yarning iron, caulking iron, chisel, melting pot, and pouring ladle.

2. figurative. to throw (also send, go, etc.) in (also into) the melting pot: to add (a factor, issue, etc.) as one among a number of things to be considered with regard to a particular situation; to put forward for scrutiny or debate. in the melting pot: under consideration or discussion; in a process of flux or change; subject to reappraisal or reanalysis.

ΚΠ

1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn II. xlix. 89 There might be a strong plea made for a few private seats in the House of Commons, and..the propriety of throwing Loughton into the melting pot was..open to question.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Feb. 11/2 I think it will be best for the Constitution of this country not to send it to the melting pot.

1947 O. Barfield in C. S. Lewis Ess. presented to C. Williams 127 The whole theory of human society is in the melting-pot.

1967 Guardian 24 May 9/3 There is a general feeling here that the whole Middle East may be going into the melting pot.

1993 Rugby World & Post May 49/1 The destination of the Second Division title and with it a place in the new First Division is still in the melting pot.

2000 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 8 Jan. 3 Council spokesman Anton Ruddenklau said yesterday the council was aware of the latest proposal. He said everything would go into the melting pot.

3. figurative.

a. A situation in which things are constantly changing and the outcome is uncertain.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > [noun] > locus of

melting pot1887

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Feb. 3/1 Mr. Morley..figured as a Conservative defending the Constitution from the melting-pot.

1934 A. Thirkell Wild Strawberries iii. 40 Her bedroom [was] a kind of family council chamber..a melting-pot for the day's plans.

1989 M. Ross Claims of Feeling 191 The reality of these practices is best described as a melting pot of disparate arts subjects, the outcomes of which rely as much on luck as on professional foresight.

b. A place where different peoples, styles, theories, etc., are mixed together.Used chiefly of the United States.

ΚΠ

1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iii. 39 Here [i.e. in America] individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.]

1889 N.Y. Times 2 Sept. 5/1 The French Canadians had a misgiving that if they too were cast into the American melting pot they would yield to that mysterious force which blends all foreign elements into one homogeneous mass.

1909 I. Zangwill Melting-pot 37 America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!

1962 S. E. Finer Man on Horseback xii. 230 The remainder are either melting-pots in full bubble like Brazil, or societies still..riven by ethnic and class divisions.

1990 B. Bryson Mother Tongue xv. 237 The East End of London has always been a melting pot, and they've taken terms from every wave of invaders, from French Huguenot weavers in the sixteenth century to Bangladeshis of today.

2004 T. Jacoby Reinventing Melting Pot i. i. 15 The melting pot is the best shorthand we have for the age-old American tradition of integrating and absorbing newcomers.

Compounds

General attributive (esp. in sense 3).

ΚΠ

1929 E. S. McCartney in Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 308/1 Melting-pot division, the Seventy-seventh Division [of the U.S. Army], so named because composed of all the nationalities that make up the cosmopolitan population of New York.

1948 Life June 82 Possibly because of its melting-pot aspects it has always been one of the most democratic unions—insisting even in the South, for example, that white and Negro workers receive equal pay and working conditions.

1967 Times 24 Apr. 2/2 It had been assumed that Negroes would be successfully integrated like the Irish or the Poles but this had not happened. The ‘melting pot’ theory had not worked.

1997 Condé Nast Traveler Mar. 128/1 True Creole remains a miracle of the French Indies, a zestful mélange sustained by the melting pot culture that created it.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	melting pot
释义	melting potn. Brit. /ˈmɛltɪŋ pɒt/, U.S. /ˈmɛltɪŋ ˌpɑt/ Forms: see melting n.¹ and pot n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: melting n.¹, pot n.¹ Etymology: < melting n.¹ + pot n.¹ 1. A vessel in which metals or other materials are melted and mixed.In quot. 1700 in an extended metaphor. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > furnace > parts of furnace > [noun] > vessels crossletc1386 testc1386 cruciblea1475 spoon1496 melting pot1545 cruset1558 fining pot1560 hooker1594 cupel1605 crusoile1613 crisol1622 melt pot1637 muffle1644 crevet1658 coffin1686 sand-pot1758 Hessian crucible1807 pan1839 shank1843 casting-pot1846 king pot1862 converter1867 washpot1879 1420–1 in N. S. B. Gras Early Eng. Customs Syst. (1918) 504 (MED) Meltyngpotts. 1545 Rates Custome House sig. b viij Meltynge pottes for goldsmethes. 1610 J. Davies Panegyricke in R. Vaughan Water-workes sig. B4 His Royall Trench, is as his melting Pott, Whence issues Liquid-gold the Vale to gild! 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 168 The Poot it self almost twice the length of the depth of the Melting Pot. 1700 R. Blackmore Satyr against Wit 9 Into the melting Pot when D[ryde]n comes, What horrid Stench will rise, what noisome Fumes? 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Collet Collet, in the glass trade, that part of a glass vessel, which in the making, sticks to the hollow iron by which the metal is first taken out of the melting pot. 1875 W. S. Jevons Money viii. 81 Garbling, the coinage, devoting the good new coins to the melting-pot, and passing the old worn coins into circulation again. 1902 N.E.D. at Quarl, Quarle sb.¹ A large brick or tile..used to form supports for melting-pots, retort-covers, etc. 1978 R. P. Singhal Home Plumber's Bible iv. 117 Several tools are required: a yarning iron, caulking iron, chisel, melting pot, and pouring ladle. 2. figurative. to throw (also send, go, etc.) in (also into) the melting pot: to add (a factor, issue, etc.) as one among a number of things to be considered with regard to a particular situation; to put forward for scrutiny or debate. in the melting pot: under consideration or discussion; in a process of flux or change; subject to reappraisal or reanalysis. ΚΠ 1869 A. Trollope Phineas Finn II. xlix. 89 There might be a strong plea made for a few private seats in the House of Commons, and..the propriety of throwing Loughton into the melting pot was..open to question. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Feb. 11/2 I think it will be best for the Constitution of this country not to send it to the melting pot. 1947 O. Barfield in C. S. Lewis Ess. presented to C. Williams 127 The whole theory of human society is in the melting-pot. 1967 Guardian 24 May 9/3 There is a general feeling here that the whole Middle East may be going into the melting pot. 1993 Rugby World & Post May 49/1 The destination of the Second Division title and with it a place in the new First Division is still in the melting pot. 2000 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 8 Jan. 3 Council spokesman Anton Ruddenklau said yesterday the council was aware of the latest proposal. He said everything would go into the melting pot. 3. figurative. a. A situation in which things are constantly changing and the outcome is uncertain. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > sudden or complete change > [noun] > locus of melting pot1887 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Feb. 3/1 Mr. Morley..figured as a Conservative defending the Constitution from the melting-pot. 1934 A. Thirkell Wild Strawberries iii. 40 Her bedroom [was] a kind of family council chamber..a melting-pot for the day's plans. 1989 M. Ross Claims of Feeling 191 The reality of these practices is best described as a melting pot of disparate arts subjects, the outcomes of which rely as much on luck as on professional foresight. b. A place where different peoples, styles, theories, etc., are mixed together.Used chiefly of the United States. ΚΠ 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iii. 39 Here [i.e. in America] individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.] 1889 N.Y. Times 2 Sept. 5/1 The French Canadians had a misgiving that if they too were cast into the American melting pot they would yield to that mysterious force which blends all foreign elements into one homogeneous mass. 1909 I. Zangwill Melting-pot 37 America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! 1962 S. E. Finer Man on Horseback xii. 230 The remainder are either melting-pots in full bubble like Brazil, or societies still..riven by ethnic and class divisions. 1990 B. Bryson Mother Tongue xv. 237 The East End of London has always been a melting pot, and they've taken terms from every wave of invaders, from French Huguenot weavers in the sixteenth century to Bangladeshis of today. 2004 T. Jacoby Reinventing Melting Pot i. i. 15 The melting pot is the best shorthand we have for the age-old American tradition of integrating and absorbing newcomers. Compounds General attributive (esp. in sense 3). ΚΠ 1929 E. S. McCartney in Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 308/1 Melting-pot division, the Seventy-seventh Division [of the U.S. Army], so named because composed of all the nationalities that make up the cosmopolitan population of New York. 1948 Life June 82 Possibly because of its melting-pot aspects it has always been one of the most democratic unions—insisting even in the South, for example, that white and Negro workers receive equal pay and working conditions. 1967 Times 24 Apr. 2/2 It had been assumed that Negroes would be successfully integrated like the Irish or the Poles but this had not happened. The ‘melting pot’ theory had not worked. 1997 Condé Nast Traveler Mar. 128/1 True Creole remains a miracle of the French Indies, a zestful mélange sustained by the melting pot culture that created it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1420
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