(n.) Any one of numerous species of small silvery salmonoid fishes of the genus Osmerus and allied genera, which ascend rivers to spawn, and sometimes become landlocked in lakes. They are esteemed as food, and have a peculiar odor and taste.
(n.) A gull; a simpleton.
(v. i.) To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin.
Example Sentences:
(1) The risk factors with statistical significance in conditional logistic regression analysis were exposure time of smelting, time of underground drilling, and age of beginning mining underground.
(2) A 50-yr-old man with a history of 19 yr of work in the aluminum smelting industry, including 14 years in the potrooms, was found to have diffuse interstitial fibrosis, slightly more severe in the upper zones.
(3) Inhalation is clearly related to the development of lung cancer in (copper) smelting and arsenical pesticide manufacturing, and also in heavily exposed wine merchants who had an additional source of exposure by ingestion.
(4) On the outskirts of Sheffield there is a wood which, some 800 years ago, was used by the monks of Kirkstead Abbey to produce charcoal for smelting iron.
(5) Of the 20 different materials in a phone , only a small fraction are ever recuperated, even in the most sophisticated electronics recycling plants such as the huge smelting and electrolysis facility run by metals firm Umicore in Antwerp.
(6) Quantities of land-disposed or stored residuals, including slags, sludges, and dusts, are given per unit of metal production for most primary and secondary metal smelting and refining industries.
(7) Pronounced distinctions were found between the structure of the medial gut of smelts and that of the pike (Esox lucius Linné).
(8) The article reports the results of the investigation on atmospheric pollution and mercury poisoning caused by the peasants mercury smelting.
(9) Elevated arsenic concentrations were found in the vicinity of the mining and smelting areas of Flin Flon, Manitoba, and Atikokan, Ontario.
(10) Mean wet-weight concentrations of PCB's similar to Aroclor 1254 ranged from 2.7 ppm in rainbow smelt to 15 ppm in lake trout.
(11) ALAU in white-footed mice trapped in the vicinity of a lead smelter has been measured to study the biological effect of lead smelting operations and the rate at which the ALAU level diminishes after removing animals from contaminated environments.
(12) He used to beat people to death, but there was too much blood ("It smelt awful").
(13) We studied three patients with a progressive neurologic disorder, all of whom had worked for over 12 years in the same potroom of an aluminum smelting plant.
(14) Ultrafine metal oxides and SO2 react during coal combustion or smelting operations to form primary emissions coated with an acidic SOx layer.
(15) "I'm not sure what's on it, because when I opened it, it smelt of vinegar, so I've sent it to be treated.
(16) A cDNA for a type II antifreeze protein was isolated from liver of smelt (Osmerus mordax).
(17) A semicohort of children, initial age about 11.5 years, from an exposure area near a secondary lead smelting plant (E group children) was examined for some humoral immune response parameters in the blood and saliva and compared to a group of control children matched by age living in a relatively unpolluted rural area (Co group children).
(18) One way or another, American TV woke up and smelt it.
(19) In some parts of the town, which once thrived on silver mining and smelting as well as a spa, whole housing blocks stand empty while others have been torn down.
(20) And when I met Karl Lagerfeld, he smelt exactly the same.
Spelt
Definition:
() of Spell
() imp. & p. p. of Spell. Spelled.
(n.) A species of grain (Triticum Spelta) much cultivated for food in Germany and Switzerland; -- called also German wheat.
(n.) Spelter.
(v. t. & i.) To split; to break; to spalt.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of the few regulations that has been spelt out in black and white is the maximum height limit – so planes don’t have to weave between spires on their way to and from City Airport, five miles to the east.
(2) Far from being depressed, the audience turned into a heaving mass of furious geeks, who roared their anger and vowed that they would not rest until they had brought down the rotten system The "skeptic movement" (always spelt with "k" by the way, to emphasise their distinctiveness) had come to Singh's aid.
(3) While Chinese media have not spelt out Zhou's woes explicitly, the hints have grown more blatant by the month, with some identifying him via his family relationships.
(4) • He said Labour under Ed Miliband had not spelt out what it really believed.
(5) We're against going to Syria for the armed struggle and have spelt this out on many occasions.
(6) Two years ago, that same person would probably have asked how baobab was spelt.” Despite the optimism, Dohse knows that baobab will never be a cash crop to rival the tobacco on which one of Africa’s poorest countries depends .
(7) M∆tilda – spelt with an Alt-J – references Luc Besson's film Léon and is "fuelled by the shared demise of both the protagonist and antagonist".
(8) Afterwards, Josiah Heyman, a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso, who studies the border, spelt out what he regards as the lunacy of Sensenbrenner's approach.
(9) Activities of xylanase up to 27 U ml-1 (1 U represents 1 micromol of xylose equivalents released min-1) were obtained for cultures grown on xylan (from oat spelt) at 2.5 mg ml-1 in shaken cultures.
(10) Cocozza was never a threat to the favourites – only managing between 5.2% and 8.7% of the public vote in the weeks he was in the contest – while the re-introduction of a female artist in his place in Lily seems to have spelt the end of Devlin's chances.
(11) For a start, comments from US Federal Reserve officials late on the same day spelt out the merits of its bond-buying programme, prompting hopes of continuing stimulus for the world's largest economy.
(12) Authorities have refused to register the baby because Rincón’s Christian name is not spelt correctly on Ramírez’s American birth certificate.
(13) Chemical modification of arginine or lysine of AT-III significantly lowered its potentiation of thrombin or Xa inhibition by oat spelts xylan sulfate.
(14) A team from Dexetra.com has written "Iris" – Siri, spelt backwards – which uses Google's speech-to-text system to provide Siri-like functionality for Android phones by querying Wikipedia or other reference sites for topics such as art, literature, history and biology.
(15) On a molar basis oat spelts xylan sulfate was the most effective compound in accelerating the rate of thrombin-AT-III interaction followed by commercial heparin while the latter was most effective in accelerating the rate of thrombin-HC-II interaction.
(16) Therefore, all of the complicated foreign delicacies will be spelt phonetically here so you know what I'm talking about.
(17) The products of the two genes showed similar pH optima for hydrolysis of oat spelt xylan (around 5.5) and had little or no activity against carboxymethylcellulose.
(18) The strategic case also spelt out how the new line's additional capacity would more than triple the number of seats running into London Euston station, where peak hour demand already outstrips available seats on the West Coast mainline services.
(19) These start with PageRank, the breakthrough bearing the surname of Google's co-founder Larry Page that measures a website's relevance by the number of other sites linked to it, and extend to measures of the unique content on the site itself and whether the text on the page is replicated – either on other parts of the site or elsewhere on the web – and even whether it is spelt correctly.
(20) Kim Yo-jong, whose name is also spelt Kim Yeo-jung, is believed to act as an adviser for her brother, as other members of the Kim family have done relatives did previously for both him and his father, the late leader Kim Jong-il , before him.