Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
milter . - noun One who melts; specifically, the official in a mint who superintends the melting of gold and silver for coining.
- noun A furnace, pot, or crucible used for melting any substance; a melting-pot: as, a melter for combining the ingredients in the manufacture of sealing-wax.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, melts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person or thing that
melts . - noun Specifically, a
furnace used for meltingiron in afoundry , or alaborer who operates such a furnace.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a worker who melts substances (metal or wax etc.)
Etymologies
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Examples
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The subcontract was awarded to Northrop by the Washington Savannah River Co. for work for the Defense Waste Processing Facility at the Department of Energy's Savannah River Site in Aiken, S.C. The two-and-a-half year project will include the fabrication, assembly, piping, wiring, and testing of a water-cooled, stainless steel pressure vessel called a melter, which is used to convert liquid nuclear waste into a solid glass form suitable for long-term storage and disposal.
Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2009
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Naperville joins big cities such Minneapolis, which calls their melter the "Snow Dragon," and New York City, which has 36 melters.
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Naperville joins big cities such Minneapolis, which calls their melter the "Snow Dragon," and New York City, which has 36 melters.
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Naperville joins big cities such Minneapolis, which calls their melter the "Snow Dragon," and New York City, which has 36 melters.
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A basic component provided by ITW Dynatec is the Dynamelt ™ M-Series adhesive supply unit, or melter, which is a self-contained system for melting the adhesive and pumping it to the applicator.
unknown title 2009
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_Geotere_ is the A. - S. word for "melter;" but may not the term be applied to the pourer out of anything?
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The chief furnace-man, or "melter," in a steel plant, judges the course of the refining process by casting small test ingots from time to time, breaking them and examining the fracture.
The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel 1916
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We know how the windows were taken out, how the glass appropriated, how the 'melter' accompanied the visitors to run the lead upon the roofs, and the metal of the bells into portable forms.
Short Studies on Great Subjects James Anthony Froude 1856
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We know how the windows were taken out, how the glass appropriated, how the "melter" accompanied the visitors to run the lead upon the roofs, and the metal of the bells into portable forms.
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856
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You can't mark it up intentionally or deface money - magicians getting you to sign a coin for a magic trick will be convicted before a "melter" would.
claironeill commented on the word melter
An irritating person (Belfast)
July 27, 2011