melt
see also: MELT
Etymology
Synonyms
MELT
Noun
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see also: MELT
Etymology
From Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld-.
Pronunciation Verbmelt (melts, present participle melting; simple past and past participle melted)
- (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
- I melted butter to make a cake.
- When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
- His troubles melted away.
- (transitive, figurative) 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.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- Thou would'st have […] melted down thy youth.
- 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day:
- For pity melts the mind to love.
- (intransitive) To be discouraged.
- (intransitive, figurative) To be emotionally softened or touched.
- She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.
- My heart melted when I first heard the song.
- (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.
- I need shade! I'm melting!
Conjugation of melt
infinitive | (to) melt | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | melt | melted, molt | |
2nd-person singular | melt, meltest† | melted, molt, meltedst† | |
3rd-person singular | melts, melteth† | melted, molt | |
plural | melt | ||
subjunctive | melt | melted, molt | |
imperative | melt | — | |
participles | melting | melted, molten |
†Archaic or obsolete.
- (change from solid to liquid) to found, to thaw
- French: fondre (1), se dissoudre (2)
- German: schmelzen
- Italian: sciogliere, fondere
- Portuguese: derreter, fundir
- Russian: (snow, ice, butter, hope) та́ять
- Spanish: derretirse, fundirse
- French: faire fondre
- German: schmelzen lassen
- Italian: liquare
- Portuguese: derreter, liquefazer
- Russian: раста́пливать
- Spanish: derretir, licuar
melt
- Molten material, the product of melting.
- The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
- The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
- A melt sandwich.
- (geology) Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
- Numerous samples of breccia and impact melts were recovered by drilling into the floor of the crater.
- A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
- Synonyms: tart
- (UK, slang, derogatory) An idiot.
- Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.
- Russian: плавле́ние
- German: Schmelzwasser
- Russian: та́яние
MELT
Noun
melt (uncountable)
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