sulatusuuni — meaning in English
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English meaning
- furnace noun A heating device used to melt metal, fire ceramics, or heat a building.
- melting pot noun A place or society where people of many different nationalities, cultures and backgrounds live together and blend into something new.
Senses
sulatusuuni is used for these senses in English:
- Fornax (constellation) A winter constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a furnace. It lies near the constellation Eridanus.
- melting pot (figurative) A place where many divergent things (often races or cultures, but also talents) come together and are homogenized.
- smelter A machine used to smelt metal.
furnace — full definition
- noun A heating device used to melt metal, fire ceramics, or heat a building.
- noun Any place or situation that is extremely hot.
melting pot — full definition
- noun A place or society where people of many different nationalities, cultures and backgrounds live together and blend into something new.
- noun A situation in which things are being mixed up and remade, so that the outcome is not yet settled; usually in the phrase 'in the melting pot'.
- noun A vessel used for melting metal or other solids.