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Definition of Crucible |
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Crucible
A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc. A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal. A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction. Related Definitions: Affliction, And, As, At, Bottom, Calcining, Clay, Composed, Crucible, Decisive, Degree, For, Furnace, Graphite, Heat, Hollow, Kind, Melted, Melting, Metal, Most, Of, Or, Place, Platinum, Pot, Receive, Refractory, Require, Severe, Some, Strong, Substance, Test, The, To, Trial, Used, Very, Vessel, Which |
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Crucible Quotations
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character. Tony Robbins Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict. Bruce Babbitt No, the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman. Israel Zangwill America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Israel Zangwill Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world. Steve Buyer When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the American people to kindle about that crucible of race relationships the fires of American faith. Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity. Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. |
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Crucible Translations
crucible in German is Tiegel crucible in Spanish is crisol |
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