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Smelter vs Swelter - What's the difference?

smelter | swelter |

As nouns the difference between smelter and swelter

is that smelter is a person employed to do smelting while swelter is intense heat.

As a verb swelter is

to suffer terribly from intense heat.

smelter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person employed to do smelting.
    • He works as a smelter .
  • A machine used to smelt metal.
  • :Throw the scrap in the smelter so we can melt it down and reuse it.
  • A place where smelting is done.
  • :We'll take the scrap to the smelter and get some money for it.

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    Verb

    (head)

    • swelter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To suffer terribly from intense heat.
    • (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
  • To perspire greatly from heat.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Intense heat.
    • The summer swelter did not relent until late in September, most years.

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