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# foundry

«foundry» in Mova's school dictionary: **a factory where metal is melted and poured into moulds to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (foundries)

### meaning for a pupil

A foundry is a factory where metal is melted and poured into moulds to make things. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foundry/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a place of hot metal and furnaces, where a broken object is melted down

### examples

- The workers melted the old pipes at the foundry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foundry/#x1)
- The overseer walked through the hot foundry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foundry/#x2)
- The old iron went into the furnace at the foundry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/foundry/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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