crucible

«crucible» in Mova's school dictionary: a strong pot that can stand great heat, used for melting… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

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 old stories and in science lessons, the pot in which metals are melted, as in a gold-making tale

examples

• 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

• The words of the LORD are pure words, as silver tried in a crucible on the earth, refined seven times.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «crucible» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.