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CRUCIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crucible mean? 

CRUCIBLE (noun)
  The noun CRUCIBLE has 1 sense:

1. a vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactionsplay

  Familiarity information: CRUCIBLE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CRUCIBLE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A vessel made of material that does not melt easily; used for high temperature chemical reactions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

crucible; melting pot

Hypernyms ("crucible" is a kind of...):

vessel (an object used as a container (especially for liquids))


 Context examples 


All in that region was fire and commotion; the soup and fish were in the last stage of projection, and the cook hung over her crucibles in a frame of mind and body threatening spontaneous combustion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted and that the elixir of life is a chimera but these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)



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