mel
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mel
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[mel]
/ mɛl /
noun
Mel
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[mel]
/ mɛl /
noun
mel
British
/ mɛl /
noun
Etymology
Origin of mel
From Latin
Example Sentences
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This calculation is misleading because we don’t know how many mel alleles that interact with lethal recessives reside in the X chromosome.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 15, 2011
From the end of the '40s until well into the '60s, the late Nat "King" Cole held sway with mel low, foggy-voiced renditions of easygoing ballads like Too Young and Red Sails in the Sunset.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do they bear mel Why don’t they move* She sat, folding her hands in her lap.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Mall, mel, or mal, n. a level shaded walk: a public walk.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
The girl put her hand over her heart and cried out: "Oh, my sweet Saviour, help mel" That was the queer way she thought within her mind, and the words forced themselves to her lips.
From The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
As a jazz and pop standard it sparked memorable romantic readings from Peggy Lee, Margaret Whiting, Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé and Tony Bennett.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Det Ch Insp Mel Sutherland said forensic anthropologist Dr Micol Zuppello worked for several days to "painstakingly extract the body", with all but the tip of a toe and some small eye socket bones recovered.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
"We were on the team bus, I said a few words," said assistant captain Mel Reid of the aftermath of Kupcho's heroics.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Mel Gibson went considerably bigger with his island investment, purchasing Mago Island in Fiji after the release of his 2004 movie “The Passion of the Christ.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Mel and Petey said they would take the mare home while Finn was being checked out at the hospital.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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