ingot: [14] The etymological meaning of ingot is ‘poured in’. It was formed in Middle English from in and an apparent survival of goten, the past participle of Old English geotan ‘pour’. It originally meant ‘mould for casting metal’ (the idea being that the molten metal was ‘poured into’ the mould), but towards the end of the 16th century it started being used for the lump of metal formed in this way. (When French borrowed the word in the 15th century it grafted its definite article on to it, giving modern French lingot ‘ingot’.)
ingot (n.)
late 14c., "mold in which metal is cast," probably from in- (2) "in" + Old English goten, past participle of geotan "to pour" (see found (v.2)). Sense of "mass of cast metal" first attested early 15c.
双语例句
1. His master granted him a small ingot of silver.
主人赏给他一锭银子.
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2. She just stood there with an ingot in her hand -- it felt hard, cold and heavy.
她站在那儿,手里拿着一块金子, 摸上去,金子又硬又凉,沉甸甸的.
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3. So press ingot does the outlet after where after all?
那么“压锭”后的出路究竟何在?
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4. Have celebrated the New Year, have given everybody a gold ingot!
过年了, 送大家一个金元宝!
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5. Above results will be helpful to improve the aluminum ingot machine.
