ingot
A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape…A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.
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Meaning
1 sensesA solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.
Barren
сли́токslítok, чу́шкаčúška, болва́нкаbolvánka
зли́токzlýtok, зли́вокzlývok
- metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling
Examples
6 sentencesEa-nasir sells bad copper ingots.
Do you have any spare iron ingots?
deHast du Eisenbarren übrig? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
There are several gold ingots in the safe.
I've never seen a gold ingot in real life.
The production of metal ingots requires less water than that of animal fillets or agricultural products.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English ingot (“mould for casting metal”), of uncertain origin. In all likelihFrom Middle English ingot (“mould for casting metal”), of uncertain origin. In all likelihood the same word as Middle French lingot, but the direction of borrowing is hard to establish, particularly as the word appears simultaneously (ca. 1390) in both languages.
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