'Smelting' definitions:
Definition of 'Smelting'
From: GCIDE
- Smelting \Smelt"ing\, a. & n. from Smelt. [1913 Webster]
- Smelting furnace (Metal.), a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Smelting'
From: GCIDE
- Smelt \Smelt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smelted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smelting.] [Of foreign origin; cf. Sw. sm[aum]lta, D. smelten, Dan. smelte, Icel. smelta, G. schmelzen OHG. smelzan, smelzen; probably akin to Gr. ?????. Cf. Enamel, Melt, Mute, v. i., Smalt.] (Metal.) 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'smelting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- architecture,
- assembly,
- blazing,
- blistering,
- branding,
- building,
- burning,
- calcination,
- carbonization,
- casting,
- cauterization,
- cautery,
- cineration,
- combustion,
- composition,
- concremation,
- construction,
- conversion,
- cracking,
- crafting,
- craftsmanship,
- creation,
- cremation,
- cultivation,
- cupellation,
- deflagration,
- destructive distillation,
- devising,
- distillation,
- distilling,
- elaboration,
- erection,
- extraction,
- fabrication,
- fashioning,
- flaming,
- formation,
- forming,
- formulation,
- framing,
- growing,
- handicraft,
- handiwork,
- harvesting,
- incineration,
- machining,
- making,
- manufacture,
- manufacturing,
- milling,
- mining,
- molding,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- parching,
- prefabrication,
- preparation,
- processing,
- producing,
- pyrolysis,
- raising,
- refining,
- scorching,
- scorification,
- searing,
- self-immolation,
- shaping,
- singeing,
- suttee,
- the stake,
- thermogenesis,
- vesication,
- workmanship