单词 | remelt |
释义 | remeltv. 1. transitive. To melt (a substance, object, etc.) again; to make molten again. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of melting > melt [verb (intransitive)] > again remelt1626 the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of melting > melt [verb (transitive)] > again remelt1626 re-fuse1825 reflow1946 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §771 The Crude Materialls of Glasse, mingled with Glasse, already made and Re-moulten. 1697 I. Newton Memo. in Corr. (1967) IV. 234 When the money is coyned he tries it..& if it prove without remedy the Master bears ye loss of remelting it. 1776 R. Chandler Trav. Greece xxx. 144 They re-melted the old scum and dross, and found ore. 1833 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 185 If the lavas could be remelted. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 938 Those who remelt the pig brass, and are called ‘founders’. 1948 Glass Club Bull. Mar. 5/1 At the end of the working day the odds and ends..were..remelted..and..appeared as beautiful pieces of purple and white glass. 1965 G. J. Jones Fund. Workshop Technol. ii. 30 Grey cast iron is produced by remelting pig iron in a foundry cupola. 2003 Materials Today Apr. 31/1 In theory, all thermoplastic polymers can be remelted and recompounded into a new grade. 2. intransitive. Of a solid substance, object, etc.: to undergo melting again, to revert to a molten state. ΚΠ 1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse iv. ii. 152 It was perceived to re-melt and unite with the fresh metal. 1865 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. 78 Into what Empyrean will it remelt when the separating film bursts? 1948 A. W. Ralston Fatty Acids vii. 545 If..rapidly cooled and then heated in a capillary tube, it melts at 55°, again solidifies, and then remelts at 71.5°. 2008 Brattleboro (Vermont) Reformer (Nexis) 25 Oct. (Food section) I know this sounds wasteful but the sugar will not remelt, it becomes granular and unusable anyway. Derivatives reˈmelted adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of melting > [adjective] > melted > again remelted1776 1776 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals V. 145 The cast ought to be very good to produce iron as nervous and tenacious as that made from remelted old iron..by putting it into the refiner's fire. 1834 Leigh Hunt's London Jrnl. 10 Dec. 296/2 February is a scene of swampy, melted, refrozen, remelted snow, with many a slip and slide. 1861 W. Fairbairn Iron 142 Molten crude iron, or..remelted pig or refined iron. 1911 Geol. Mag. 8 295 When the re-melted portion of the crust is composed of different rocks. 1989–90 Review Winter 10/2 It takes only 5 per cent of the energy to produce liquid aluminium from remelted cans as from original ore. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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