Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun smelt

2 senses of smelt

Sense 1
smelt -- (small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water)
       => fish -- (the flesh of fish used as food; "in Japan most fish is eaten raw"; "after the scare about foot-and-mouth disease a lot of people started eating fish instead of meat"; "they have a chef who specializes in fish")

Sense 2
smelt -- (small trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters)
       => soft-finned fish, malacopterygian -- (any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb smelt

1 sense of smelt

Sense 1
smelt -- (extract (metals) by heating)
       => produce, make, create -- (create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb smell

5 senses of smell

Sense 1
smell -- (inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense)
       => perceive, comprehend -- (to become aware of through the senses; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon")

Sense 2
smell -- (emit an odor; "The soup smells good")
       => cause to be perceived -- (have perceptible qualities)
          Phrasal Verb-> smell up#1

Sense 3
smell -- (smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells")
       => smell -- (emit an odor; "The soup smells good")

Sense 4
smack, reek, smell -- (have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism")
       => suggest, evoke, paint a picture -- (call to mind; "this remark evoked sadness")

Sense 5
smell, smell out, sense -- (become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; "I sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out corruption")
       => perceive -- (become conscious of; "She finally perceived the futility of her protest")

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