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smelts

smelts is the plural of smelt.

smelts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of smelt.

Meaning of smelt

Noun (1)

smelt (plural smelt or smelts)

  1. Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
  2. (obsolete) A fool; a simpleton.
    • These direct Men, they are no Men of fashion, Talk what you will, this is a very Smeltc. 1615–1616, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “Loves Pilgramage, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC...

Noun (2)

smelt (countable and uncountable, plural smelts)

  1. Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves heating and chemical reduction of metal compounds into purified metal.
  2. Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
    • The green liquor, ie, [sic] the solution obtained on dissolving the smelt, contains an insoluble residue called dregs, which gives it a dark green appearance.1982, Raymond E. Kirk and Donald F. Othmer, Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, Wiley, →ISBN, page 405

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Phrases with smelts

Questions about smelts

What is smelts the plural of?
Smelts is the plural of smelt.

Words near smelts in the dictionary

  1. smelters
  2. smeltery
  3. smelting
  4. smelting works
  5. smeltings
  6. smelts
  7. Smeltz
  8. Smeltzer
  9. Smeltzers
  10. Smeltzes
  11. Smenyak

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