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# crucible

noun (crucibles)

«crucible» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A crucible is a strong pot that can stand great heat, used for melting metal or other things. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crucible/#m1)

### 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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crucible/#x2)
- In science we heated salt in a crucible. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crucible/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## In Jewish tradition

A pot for melting and refining metal.

**Interpretation.** The Psalm compares God's words to silver refined seven times. The tradition reads this as pure and tested, with nothing false.

### Examples

- The words of the LORD are pure words, as silver tried in a crucible on the earth, refined seven times. (Writings PSA.12.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crucible/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «crucible» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crucible/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«crucible» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/crucible.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «crucible» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/crucible/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«crucible» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/crucible.html) on Mova free.