crucible
part of speech
noun (crucibles)
meaning for a pupil
A crucible is a strong pot that can stand great heat, used for melting metal or other things. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A pot for melting and refining metal. Interpretation: The Psalm compares God's words to silver refined seven times. The tradition reads this as pure and tested, with nothing false. In the primary lessons: in old stories and in science lessons, the pot in which metals are melted, as in a gold-making tale
examples
- The words of the LORD are pure words, as silver tried in a crucible on the earth, refined seven times. (Writings PSA.12.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- The metals were melted in the crucible. tree →
- It was easy to melt all these away in the gold-making crucible. tree →
- In science we heated salt in a crucible. tree →
note
nothing for maths.
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «crucible» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.