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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crucible/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crucible/#x1)
- It was easy to melt all these away in the gold-making crucible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crucible/#x2)
- In science we heated salt in a crucible. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crucible/#x3)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.152/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crucible» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crucible/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.