Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mass of metal, such as a bar or block, that is cast in a standard shape for convenient storage or shipment.
- noun A casting mold for metal.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mold into which to pour metals; an ingot-mold.
- noun A mass of metal cast in a mold.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete That in which metal is cast; a mold.
- noun A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal.
- noun a box or mold in which ingots are cast.
- noun See Decarbonized steel, under
Decarbonize .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A solid
block of more or less puremetal , often but not necessarilybricklike in shape andtrapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately aftersmelting from rawore oralloying from constituents.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun metal that is cast in the shape of a block for convenient handling
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, mold for casting metal : perhaps from in-, in; see in– + Old English goten, past participle of geotan, to pour, or perhaps from Old French lingot, metal ingot ((reinterpreted as l'ingot le, the + *ingot, ingot), from Old Provençal, from lenga, tongue (in reference to the elongated shape of medieval ingots), from Latin lingua; see language).]
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From Middle English ingot ("something poured in"), from Old English *ingot, ingyte ("a pouring in, infusion, inspiration"), from Proto-Germanic *in (“in”) + *gutaz, *gutiz (“gush, flow”), from Proto-Germanic *geutanan (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- (“to pour”), equivalent to in- + gote or in- + yote. Cognate with German Einguss ("in-pouring, sprue"), Swedish ingjut ("in-pouring"), Dutch ingieten ("to pour in"), Scots gote ("drain, ditch, gutter"), Swedish göt ("ingot"). More at gote, goit, yote.
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