| 单词 | smelt |
| 释义 | smelt (once / 1109 pages) 1v 2n No, this verb doesn't involve using your nose. When you smelt metal, you remove it from ore, or rock. Heat is required to smelt iron. Smelt looks a lot like melt and that is an easy way to remember what this process involves. To smelt metal, you have to heat the rock, which is called ore, until the metal inside it melts or liquefies. That metal is the part that has use and value, but hard work is needed to extract it. WORD FAMILYsmelt: smelted, smelter, smeltery, smelting, smelts+/smelter: smelters/smeltery: smelteries USAGE EXAMPLESSpawning surf smelt and sand lance use the shoreline, too. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Moyle, the Delta smelt expert, believes that’s possible because of “smelt cams” and other monitoring systems already in place. Washington Times(Dec 17, 2016) Ms. Feinstein said in March that federal agencies are restricting pumping “even though available data suggested no smelt or salmon were anywhere near the pumps.” Wall Street Journal(Dec 08, 2016) 1 v extract (metals) by heating 2Hyper create, make, produce create or manufacture a man-made product 1n small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water Hypo|Hyper American smelt, rainbow smelt common smelt of eastern North America and Alaska European smelt, sparlingcommon smelt of Europe fish the flesh of fish used as food 2n small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters Hypo|Hyper Osmerus mordax, rainbow smelt important marine and landlocked food fish of eastern North America and Alaska European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus, sparlingthe common smelt of Europe capelan, capelin, caplinvery small northern fish; forage for sea birds and marine mammals and other fishes malacopterygian, soft-finned fish any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii |
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