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Smelter

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. An apparatus for smelting.

n. An establishment for smelting.

n. One who is engaged in the smelting industry.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. One who or that which smelts:

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. One who, or that which, smelts.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who is engaged in smelting, or who works in an establishment where ores are smelted.

n. In the Cordilleran region, smelting-works.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an industrial plant for smelting

Word Usage

"Iyer Sundar Raj, a spokesman for the Tuticorin smelter, told Dow Jones Newswires that since smelting is a process-based industry, shutting down of operations will take time."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

plant industrial plant works

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

belter felter helter kelter shelter

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

foundry shipyard ingot distillery smelting