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Smelt vs Capelin - What's the difference?

smelt | capelin |

As nouns the difference between smelt and capelin

is that smelt is any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe while capelin is species: Mallotus villosus, a type of smelt found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.

As a verb smelt

is past tense of smell.

smelt

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) smelt.

Noun

(wikipedia smelt) (en noun)
  • Any small anadromous fish of the family Osmeridae, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.
  • (obsolete) A fool; a simpleton.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    Etymology 2

    From very early (etyl) smel; likely to derive from (etyl), but not recorded.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (smell)

    • Etymology 3

    Variant of the stem of (etyl) , cognate with Dutch smelten and German schmelzen.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Production of metal, especially iron, from ore in a process that involves melting]] and chemical reduction of metal [[compound, compounds into purified metal.
  • Any of the various liquids or semi-molten solids produced and used during the course of such production.
  • * 1982, Raymond E. Kirk and Donald F. Othmer, Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=ELo2AAAAMAAJ] Wiley, ISBN 0471020729, page 405,
    • The green liquor, ie, [sic] the solution obtained on dissolving the smelt , contains an insoluble residue called dregs, which gives it a dark green appearance.
  • * 1996, Arthur J. Wilson, The Living Rock: The Story of Metals Since Earliest Time and Their Impact on Civilization ,
    • When the smelt was complete the crucible could be lifted out and the metal poured directly into the moulds, thus avoiding the need to break it up and remelt […]
  • * 2000, Julian Henderson, The Science and Archaeology of Materials: An Investigation of Inorganic Materials ,
    • […] can vary in different positions in the furnace and during the smelt .
    Furnaces are unlikely to survive the smelts ; all that often remains on metal production sites is just furnace bases and broken fragments of furnaces […]
  • * 2002, Jenny Moore, “Who Lights the Fire? Gender and the Energy of Production”, in Moira Donald and Linda Hurcombe (eds.), Gender and Material Culture in Archaeological Perspective ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=che-z_41CnkC] Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0312223986, page 130,
    • Women are allowed to play some small part in the smelt if they are breastfeeding or post-menopausal (van der Merwe and Avery, 1988).
    Quotations
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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to fuse or melt two things into one, especially in order to extract metal from ore; to meld

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    capelin

    English

    (wikipedia capelin)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • , a type of smelt found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
  • * 1983 , Bodil Kaalund, Kenneth Tindall (translator), The Art of Greenland: Sculpture, Crafts, Painting , page 161,
    • The birds are spread - so that we can see what they are like; and the men catching capelins are elevated up out of the umiak, where they practically float on the gunwale, so that we can perceive that they are the main figures and see their work-movements (fig. 250).
  • * 1996 , (US) National Academy of Sciences, The Bering Sea Ecosystem , page 107,
    • Capelin are widely distributed in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, and Sea Okhotsk, and along the Kamchatka Peninsula.
  • * 2009 , Aslaug Asgeirsdottir, Who Gets What? , page 20,
    • Capelin is a relatively small, pelagic species found in the North-East Atlantic, the Barents Sea, Southwest of Greenland, off the coast of Labrador, and around Newfoundland.

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