melt
1[ melt ]
/ mɛlt /
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verb (used without object), melt·ed, melt·ed or mol·ten, melt·ing.
verb (used with object), melt·ed, melt·ed or mol·ten, melt·ing.
noun
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Origin of melt
1First recorded before 900; Middle English melten,Old English meltan (intransitive), m(i)elten (transitive) “to melt, digest”; cognate with Old Norse melta “to digest,” Greek méldein “to melt”
synonym study for melt
1. Melt, dissolve, fuse, thaw imply reducing a solid substance to a liquid state. To melt is to bring a solid to a liquid condition by the agency of heat: to melt butter. Dissolve, though sometimes used interchangeably with melt, applies to a different process, depending upon the fact that certain solids, placed in certain liquids, distribute their particles throughout the liquids: A greater number of solids can be dissolved in water and in alcohol than in any other liquids. To fuse is to subject a solid (usually a metal) to a very high temperature; it applies especially to melting or blending metals together: Bell metal is made by fusing copper and tin. To thaw is to restore a frozen substance to its normal (liquid, semiliquid, or more soft and pliable) state by raising its temperature above the freezing point: Sunshine will thaw ice in a lake.
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WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH melt
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Definition for melt (2 of 2)
melt2
[ melt ]
/ mɛlt /
noun
the spleen, especially that of a cow, pig, etc.
Also milt.
Origin of melt
2First recorded in 1575–85; variant of milt
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British Dictionary definitions for melt
melt
/ (mɛlt) /
verb melts, melting, melted, melted or molten (ˈməʊltən)
noun
the act or process of melting
something melted or an amount melted
Derived forms of melt
Word Origin for melt
Old English meltan to digest; related to Old Norse melta to malt (beer), digest, Greek meldein to melt
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Scientific definitions for melt
melt
[ mĕlt ]
To change from a solid to a liquid state by heating or being heated with sufficient energy at the melting point. See also heat of fusion.
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Idioms and Phrases with melt
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