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verb (used with object)
1.
to fuse or melt (ore) in order to separate the metal contained.
2.
to obtain or refine (metal) in this way.
Origin:
1535–45; probably < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German smelten; cognate with German schmelzen to melt1, smelt
1535–45; probably < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German smelten; cognate with German schmelzen to melt1, smelt
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Example Sentences
- Serve each smelt with deep-fried parsley and lemon wedge.
- But for certain the public-sector unions have smelt both money and an approaching general election.
- And being terrestrial, since you can't smelt iron underwater.
Dictionary.com Unabridged
noun, plural (especially collectively) smelt, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) smelts.
1.
any of various small, silvery food fishes of the family Osmeridae, of cold northern waters, as the North American rainbow smelt, Osmerus mordax.
2.
any of several superficially similar but unrelated fishes, especially certain silversides, of California.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English, Old English; compare Norwegian smelta whiting
before 900; Middle English, Old English; compare Norwegian smelta whiting
verb
a simple past tense and past participle of smell.
verb (used with object)
1.
to perceive the odor or scent of through the nose by means of the olfactory nerves; inhale the odor of: I smell something burning.
2.
to test by the sense of smell: She smelled the meat to see if it was fresh.
3.
to perceive, detect, or discover by shrewdness or sagacity: The detective smelled foul play.
verb (used without object)
4.
to perceive something by its odor or scent.
5.
to search or investigate (followed by around or about).
6.
to give off or have an odor or scent: Do the yellow roses smell?
7.
to give out an offensive odor; stink.
8.
EXPANDto have a particular odor (followed by of): My hands smell of fish.
9.
to have a trace or suggestion (followed by of).
10.
Informal. to be of inferior quality; stink: The play is good, but the direction smells.
11.
COLLAPSEInformal. to have the appearance or a suggestion of guilt or corruption: They may be honest, but the whole situation smells.
noun
Verb phrases12.
the sense of smell; faculty of smelling.
13.
the quality of a thing that is or may be smelled; odor; scent.
14.
a trace or suggestion.
15.
an act or instance of smelling.
16.
a pervading appearance, character, quality, or influence: the smell of money.
17.
smell out, to look for or detect as if by smelling; search out: to smell out enemy spies.
18.
Idiomsmell up, to fill with an offensive odor; stink up: The garbage smelled up the yard.
19.
smell a rat. rat (def. 6).
Origin:
1125–75; early Middle English smell, smull (noun), smellen, smullen (v.) < ?
1125–75; early Middle English smell, smull (noun), smellen, smullen (v.) < ?
Related forms
smell·a·ble, adjective
smell-less, adjective
out·smell, verb (used with object), -smelled or -smelt, -smel·ling.
un·smelled, adjective
un·smell·ing, adjective
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| smelt3 (smɛlt) | |
| —vb | |
| a past tense and past participle of smell | |
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Word Origin & History
smell
c.1175, "emit or perceive an odor," also n., "odor, aroma, stench," not found in O.E., perhaps cognate with M.Du. smolen, Low Ger. smelen "to smolder" (see smolder). OED says "no doubt of O.E. origin, but not recorded, and not represented in any of the cognate languages."
EXPANDOusted O.E. stenc (see stench) in most senses. Someone should revive smell-feast (n.) "one who scents out where free food is to be had" (1519, "very common" c.1540-1700, OED) and smell-smock "licentious man" (c.1550-1900). To smell a rat "be suspicious" is from 1550.
smelt
1455 (implied in smelter), from Du. or Low Ger. smelten, cognate with O.H.G. smelzan, Ger. schmelzen "to melt;" apparently a variant of the stem of O.E. meltan "to melt" (see melt).
smelt
O.E. smelt "small salmon-like sea fish," cognate with Du. smelt "sand eel," Dan. smelt (c.1600). OED notes that it has a peculiar odor (but doesn't suggest a connection with smell); Klein suggests a connection with the way the fish melts in one's mouth.
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Medical Dictionary
smell (směl)
v. smelled or smelt (smělt), smell·ing, smells
To perceive the scent of something by means of the olfactory nerves. n.
The sense by which odors are perceived; the olfactory sense.
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smelt  (smělt) Pronunciation Key
To melt ores in order to extract the metals they contain. Oxide ores, such as iron ore, are smelted with carbon, which serves as a fuel and changes the ore into a reduced metal. |
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