Word Meanings - CUPEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shallow porus cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes . Cupel dust, powder used in purifying metals.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CUPEL)

• Test
• Cupel
• trial
• examination
• proof
• criterion
• standard
• experiment
• touchstone
• experience
• ordeal

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CUPEL)

• Evade
• escape
• miss
• lose

Related words: (words related to CUPEL)

• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• TRIALITY
  Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• CUPELLATION
  The act or process of refining gold or silver, etc., in a cupel. Note: The process consist in exposing the cupel containing the metal to be assayed or refined to a hot blast, by which the lead, copper, tin, etc., are oxidized, dissolved, and carried
• EXPERIMENTIST
  An experimenter.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• EXPERIMENTATOR
  An experimenter.
• PROOF-PROOF
  Proof against proofs; obstinate in the wrong. "That might have shown to any one who was not proof-proof." Whateley.
• EXPERIMENTER
  One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. Faraday.
• EVADE
  To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument. The heathen had a method, more truly their
• TRIALOGUE
  A discourse or colloquy by three persons.
• ESCAPEMENT
  1. The act of escaping; escape. 2. Way of escape; vent. An escapement for youthful high spirits. G. Eliot. 3. The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by
• ORDEAL
  G. urteil, urtheil; orig., what is dealt out, the prefix or- being akin to a- compounded with verbs, G. er-, ur-, Goth. us-, orig. 1. An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common
• PROOF
  A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction or examination; -- called also proof sheet. (more info) 1. Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.
• EXPERIMENTATION
  The act of experimenting; practice by experiment. J. S. Mill.
• TOUCHSTONE
  Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite. 2. Fig.:
• STANDARD-WING
  A curious paradise bird which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing.
• STANDARDIZE
  To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.
• CRITERION
  A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them. Of the diseases of the mind there is no criterion. Donne. Inferences founded
• EXPERIENCER
  1. One who experiences. 2. An experimenter. Sir. K. Gigby.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• HIGH-PROOF
  1. Highly rectified; very strongly alcoholic; as, high-proof spirits. 2. So as to stand any test. "We are high-proof melancholy." Shak.
• PLOT-PROOF
  Secure against harm by plots. Shak.
• PREEXAMINATION
  Previous examination.
• WATER ORDEAL
  See 1
• DISPROOF
  A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement. I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other. Rogers.
• BULLET-PROOF
  Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. Bullet tree. See Bully tree. -- Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.
• STARPROOF
  Impervious to the light of the stars; as, a starproof elm. Milton.
• WATERPROOF
  Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious to water; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.
• BOMBPROOF
  Secure against the explosive force of bombs. -- n.