🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

Pronunciation / Transliteration: dìng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ingot/ˈɪŋ.ɡət/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这座金库里存有许多金锭。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A block of metal, such as gold, silver, or steel, cast in a shape suitable for further processing.

    "The vault contained hundreds of solid gold ingots stacked neatly on shelves."
  2. 2

    A piece of material cast in a specific shape or mold.

    "The foundry workers poured the molten alloy into a large rectangular ingot mold."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English 'ingot', possibly from Old Norse 'ingut' meaning 'pouring' or related to Old French 'ingot', 'eslingot'. Historically associated with casting molten metal into a mold to form a convenient shape for storage or transportation.

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