What does MELT mean?
Definitions for MELT
mɛltmelt
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Princeton's WordNet
thaw, melt, thawing, meltingverb
the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
"the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours"
melt, run, melt downverb
reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating
"melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun"
dissolve, thaw, unfreeze, unthaw, dethaw, meltverb
become or cause to become soft or liquid
"The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax"; "The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase"; "dethaw the meat"
mellow, melt, mellow outverb
become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
"With age, he mellowed"
melt, meldverb
lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually
"Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene"
fade, meltverb
become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly
"The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"
melt, disappear, evaporateverb
become less intense and fade away gradually
"her resistance melted under his charm"; "her hopes evaporated after years of waiting for her fiance"
Wiktionary
meltnoun
Molten material, the product of melting.
meltnoun
The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
meltnoun
The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
meltnoun
A melt sandwich.
meltnoun
an idiot.
meltverb
To change matter from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
I melted butter to make a cake.
meltverb
To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state.
The snowman will disappear; he will melt.
meltverb
To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
His troubles melted away.
meltverb
To be very hot and sweat profusely.
Help me! I'm melting!
Etymology: From meltan.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Meltverb
Etymology: myltan , Saxon.
How they would melt me out of my fat drop by drop, and liquor fishermens boots with me! William Shakespeare.
When the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil. Isa. lxiv. 2.
This price, which is given above the value of the silver in our coin, is given only to preserve our coin from being melted down. John Locke.
Will a goldsmith give one ounce and a quarter of coined silver for one ounce of bullion, when, by putting it into his melting pot, he can make it bullion? John Locke.
The rock’s high summit in the temple’s shade,
Nor heat could melt, nor beating storm invade. Alexander Pope.If your butter when melted tastes of brass, it is your master’s fault, who will not allow you a silver saucepan. Jonathan Swift.
To take in pieces this frame of nature, and melt it down into its first principles; and then to observe how the divine wisdom wrought all these things into that beautiful composition; is a kind of joy, which pierceth the mind. Burnet.
The mighty master smil’d to see
That love was in the next degree:
’Twas but a kindred sound to move,
For pity melts the mind to love. John Dryden, Alexander’s Feast.Alas! thy story melts away my soul. Joseph Addison, Cato.
Thou would’st have plung’d thyself
In general riot, melted down thy youth
In different beds of lust. William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens.To Meltverb
Let them melt away as waters which run continually. Psal.
The rose is fragrant, but it fades in time;
The violet sweet, but quickly past the prime;
While lilies hang their heads and soon decay,
And whiter snow in minutes melts away. Dryden.I melt, and am not
Of stronger earth than others. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.Dighton and Forrest;
Albeit, they were flesht villains, bloody dogs,
Melting with tenderness and mild compassion,
Wept like two children in their death’s sad story. William Shakespeare.This said; the mov’d assistants melt in tears. Dryden.
Melting into tears, the pious man
Deplor’d so sad a sight. Dryden.Whether are they vanish’d?
Into the air: and what seem’d corporal
Melted as breath into the wind. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.Beauty is a witch,
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. William Shakespeare.My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me. Psal.
Wikipedia
Melt
"I Melt with You" is a song by the British new wave band Modern English. The song, produced by Hugh Jones, was the second single from their 1982 album After the Snow. It became the band's most successful single, largely in the United States, where it was featured in the film Valley Girl and on MTV. It reached number seven on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart in 1983 and a re-release reached number 76 on its Hot 100 chart in 1990 (after reaching number 78 in 1983). The song has been covered by a variety of groups, including Jason Mraz and Nouvelle Vague, and has been featured in numerous commercials and films.
ChatGPT
melt
Melt refers to the process where a solid item changes into a liquid. This usually occurs when heat is applied to the solid material, causing its internal structure to break down and transition into a fluid state. The specific temperature at which this happens is known as the material's melting point.
Webster Dictionary
Meltnoun
see 2d Milt
Melt
to reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow
Melt
hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken
Meltverb
to be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures
Meltverb
to dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth
Meltverb
hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear
Meltverb
to lose distinct form or outline; to blend
Meltverb
to disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Melt
melt, v.t. to make liquid, to dissolve: to soften: to waste away.—v.i. to become liquid: to dissolve: to become tender or mild: to lose distinct form: to be discouraged:—pa.p. melted, or molten.—n. Melt′ing, the act of making liquid or of dissolving: the act of softening or rendering tender.—adv. Melt′ingly.—n. Melt′ing-pot, a crucible. [A.S. meltan; Ice. melta, Gr. meldein.]
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Rank popularity for the word 'MELT' in Verbs Frequency: #882
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of MELT in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of MELT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of MELT in a Sentence
One of the things that we noticed which was quite interesting was that these lakes are actually, in some cases, warming faster than the air temperatures because the air temperatures, you know, change in an instant, whereas the water temperatures, they reflect what is going on in the entire environment around them. So, it could be a reflection of there being less cloud cover, it could be a consequence of more glacial melt water coming into the lake. All these different processes taking place and they integrate them and they warm more gradually but the consequences of that warming can be very serious.
That's just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, as the Antarctic ice sheet continues to melt away, we expect multi-metre sea level rise from Antarctica in the coming centuries.
The main danger here is damage to the systems needed to keep the fuel in the reactor cool -- external power lines, emergency diesel generators, equipment to dissipate heat from the reactor core, in a war, repairing this equipment or implementing countermeasures could be impossible. In the worst case, the fuel could melt and spread large amounts of radioactivity into the environment.
Atmospheres of light shine in your eyes and so my dear sun, I hear your cries as you melt the rain from our delicate skies with a love so great there can be no goodbyes.
The snow water equivalent in the snowpack that’s still on the ground is in the top 10 or 20% compared to historic years, so there’s really just quite a lot of snow water out there, with temperatures on the colder side for this winter, it hasn’t had a chance to melt out slowly yet.
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- انصهرArabic
- fondreCatalan, Valencian
- tavit, tát, roztávat, roztátCzech
- toddiWelsh
- zum Schmelzen bringen, schmelzenGerman
- λίωνω, τήκωGreek
- fandiĝi, fandiEsperanto
- derretir, derretirseSpanish
- sulatus, läkähtyä, sulamisvesi, sulaminen, sula, sulaa, sulattaaFinnish
- se dissoudre, fondreFrench
- leaghScottish Gaelic
- olvaszt, olvadHungarian
- ձուլել, թափել, հալելArmenian
- funderInterlingua
- sciogliere, fondereItalian
- להמיסHebrew
- 溶かす, 溶けるJapanese
- aattoqKalaallisut, Greenlandic
- ಕರಗಿKannada
- 녹다Korean
- توانهوهKurdish
- leistis, tirptiLithuanian
- kust, kausētLatvian
- smeltenDutch
- smelteNorwegian
- przetapiać, topićPolish
- derreter, fundirPortuguese
- topiRomanian
- расплавлять, та́яние, плавле́ние, растопить, расплавить, растапливать, пла́вка, распла́в, плавиться, растаять, таять, расплавитьсяRussian
- otopitiSerbo-Croatian
- smältaSwedish
- కరిగించుTelugu
- erimekTurkish
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