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smelt

1  [smelt]
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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; prob. < MD or MLG smelten; c. G schmelzen to melt 1 , smelt
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smelt

2  [smelt]
–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, esp. certain silversides, of California.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME, OE; cf. Norw smelta whiting

smelt

3  [smelt]
–verb
a pt. and pp. of smell.

smell

  [smel] verb, smelled or smelt, smell⋅ing, noun
–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 (fol. 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. to have a particular odor (fol. by of): My hands smell of fish.
9. to have a trace or suggestion (fol. by of).
10. Informal. to be of inferior quality; stink: The play is good, but the direction smells.
11. Informal. to have the appearance or a suggestion of guilt or corruption: They may be honest, but the whole situation smells.
–noun
12. 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.
—Verb phrases
17. smell out, to look for or detect as if by smelling; search out: to smell out enemy spies.
18. smell up, to fill with an offensive odor; stink up: The garbage smelled up the yard.
—Idiom
19. smell a rat. rat (def. 6).
Origin:
1125–75; early ME smell, smull (n.), smellen, smullen (v.) < ?

Related forms:
smell⋅a⋅ble, adjective
smell-less, adjective

Synonyms:
13. See odor.
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smell   (směl)   
v.   smelled or smelt (smělt), smell·ing, smells

v.   tr.

  1. To perceive the scent of (something) by means of the olfactory nerves.

  2. To sense the presence of by or as if by the olfactory nerves; detect or discover: We smelled trouble ahead. The committee tried to smell out corruption in law enforcement.

v.   intr.

  1. To use the sense of smell; perceive the scent of something.

  2. To have or emit an odor: "The breeze smelled exactly like Vouvray—flowery, with a hint of mothballs underneath" (Anne Tyler).

  3. To be suggestive; have a touch of something: a cave that smells of terror.

  4. To have or emit an unpleasant odor; stink: This closet smells.

  5. To appear to be dishonest; suggest evil or corruption.

n.  

  1. The sense by which odors are perceived; the olfactory sense.

  2. That quality of something that may be perceived by the olfactory sense.

  3. The act or an instance of smelling.

  4. A distinctive enveloping or characterizing quality; an aura or trace: the smell of success.


[Middle English smellen.]
Synonyms: These nouns denote a quality that can be perceived by the olfactory sense: the smell of gas; the aroma of frying onions; hospital odors; the scent of pine needles.
smelt 1   (smělt)   
v.   smelt·ed, smelt·ing, smelts

v.   tr.
To melt or fuse (ores) in order to separate the metallic constituents.
v.   intr.
To melt or fuse. Used of ores.

[Dutch or Low German smelten, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
smelt 2   (smělt)   
n.   pl. smelts or smelt
Any of various small silvery marine and freshwater food fishes of the family Osmeridae, found in cold waters of the Northern Hemisphere, especially Osmerus mordax of North America and O. eperlanus of Europe.

[Middle English, from Old English; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots.]
smelt 3   (smělt)   
v.  A past tense and a past participle of smell.
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Word Origin & History

smell  (v.)
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." Ousted 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  (v.)
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  (n.)
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

Main Entry: 2smell
Function: noun
1 : the property of a thing that affects the olfactory organs : ODOR
2 : the special sense concerned with the perception of odor
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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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Science Dictionary
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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