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Definition: Cupel |
CupelNoun1. Small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Cupel" is a common misspelling or typo for: Cape, Carpel, Compel, Copal, Cope, Coupe, Couple, Cupola, Cupped. |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. A small bone-ash cup used in gold or silver assaying with lead.b. The hearth of a small furnace used in refining metals. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CupelSynonyms: bone-ash cup (n), refractory pot (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cupel |
| English words defined with "cupel": Coppel, Copple dust, Cupellation, Cupelled, Cupelling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cupel": cupeller ♦ reality. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "cupel": Goblet. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "cupel": Cupel dust. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "cupel"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тиган за проби, определям пробата на метал. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | proberdigel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schuitje (boat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | coupelle (brake piston cup). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kupelle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δοχείο κυπέλλωσης. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | olvasztótégely (crucible, melting pot, pot), kiolvaszt (ran, run, to render, to run, to smelt, unfreeze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | coppella. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | upelcay copela. (various references) определять пробу, пробирная чашка. (various references) sud za čišćenje dragih metala, čistiti drage metale. (various references) copela, usar taza de prueba, taza de prueba. (various references) maden potası. (various references) капелювати. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cupel": cupeled, cupeler, cupelers, cupeling, cupellation, cupellations, cupelled, cupeller, cupellers, cupelling, cupels. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-p-u" | |
-1 letter: clue, luce, puce, pule. | |
-2 letters: cel, cep, cue, cup, ecu, leu, pec, pul. | |
-3 letters: el, pe, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-p-u" | |
+1 letter: couple, culpae, cupels, cupule. | |
+2 letters: bluecap, capsule, cleanup, closeup, clumped, clupeid, clypeus, copulae, coupled, coupler, couples, couplet, crumple, cupeled, cupeler, cuplike, cupulae, cupules, decuple, octuple, peculia, plucked, plucker, scaleup, scruple, sculped, specula, spicule, upscale. | |
+3 letters: bluecaps, capsuled, capsules, centuple, cleanups, closeups, clumpier, clupeids, clupeoid, copulate, couplers, couplets, crumpled, crumples, culpable, cupelers, cupeling, cupelled, cupeller, cupolaed, cupulate, decouple, decupled, decuples, eucalypt, octupled, octuples, octuplet, octuplex, opercula, opercule, opulence, opulency, opuscule, peaceful, peculate, peculiar, peculium, peduncle, pellucid, penuchle, penuckle, plectrum, pluckers, pluckier, populace, poultice, preclude, prelunch, pulicene, pulicide, recouple, republic, resculpt, scaleups, scapulae, scopulae, scrupled, scruples, sculpted, specular, speculum, spiculae, spicules, sprucely, surplice, uncouple, unplaced, upcoiled, upcurled, upscaled, upscales. | |
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