melt
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melt¹
- /mɛlt/
Rhymes with -ɛlt
Where it comes from
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- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).
verb melts · melting · melted · molt
- 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.
- To dissolve, disperse, vanish. His troubles melted away.
- 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. Thou would'st have […] melted down thy youth.
- To be discouraged.
- To be emotionally softened or touched. She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.
- To be very hot and sweat profusely. I need shade! I'm melting!
noun melts
- Molten material, the product of melting. The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle.
- The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
- The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
- A melt sandwich. I recently asked a group of people whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid. Everyone remembered a version of this dish.
- 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.
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A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
Similar: tart
- A soft, soppy, or overly emotional person. You are from Blackburn you fucking melt...have a bastard word with yourself.
- A centre-left or liberal person, when in opposition to a leftist; (especially) a critic of Jeremy Corbyn within the Labour Party. Anyone who said different was a Tory, a melt or – worse – a Blairite. Centrists (mostly Labour voters) were the devil incarnate.
- Alternative spelling of milt (“the semen of a male fish, used as food”). A mass of herring melts, tinged with the streams of claret, had fallen into his hair, and this, added to his temporary stupor, had led to the Doctor's mistake.
MELT²
noun
- Acronym of metrics, events, logs, and traces. Another way to describe APM suites is that they are the monitoring technology that makes MELT data collection possible and useful for SREs.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: thaw, unthaw, thawing, unfreeze, melt down, run, mellow, molten, deice, defrost, meltwater, snowmelt, fount, wellspring, smelting, cast-iron
Translations
Every language
verb intransitive: (of a solid) to become a liquid
| Español | derretirse, fundirse |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 녹다 nokda |
| 日本語 | 溶ける tokeru |
| 中文 | 融化 rónghuà, 熔化 rónghuà |
| Português | derreter, fundir |
| Français | fondre, se dissoudre |
| Deutsch | schmelzen |
| Italiano | sciogliere, fondere |
| Ελληνικά | λιώνω lióno, τήκω tíko |
| Română | topi |
| Русский | та́ять tájatʹ, раста́ять rastájatʹ, пла́виться plávitʹsja, распла́виться rasplávitʹsja |
| Tiếng Việt | tan, tan chảy, nóng chảy |
| العربية | ذَابَ ḏāba, انْصَهَرَ |
| עברית | ניתך nitákh, נמס namás |
verb transitive: to change something from a solid to a liquid
| Español | derretir, licuar |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 녹이다 nogida |
| 日本語 | 溶かす tokasu |
| 中文 | 使融化 shǐ rónghuà, 使熔化 shǐ rónghuà |
| Português | derreter, liquefazer |
| Français | faire fondre |
| Deutsch | schmelzen lassen |
| Italiano | liquare |
| Ελληνικά | λιώνω lióno |
| Русский | раста́пливать rastáplivatʹ, растопи́ть rastopítʹ, расплавля́ть rasplavljátʹ, распла́вить rasplávitʹ |
| العربية | أَذَابَ ʔaḏāba, صَهَرَ ṣahara |
| עברית | התיך hitíkh, המס hemés, hemís |
verb to dissolve, disperse, vanish
| Ελληνικά | λιώνω lióno |
|---|
noun molten material
| Español | material fundido |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Schmelze |
| Русский | распла́в raspláv |
noun transition of matter
| Русский | плавле́ние plavlénije, пла́вка plávka |
|---|
noun springtime snow runoff in mountain regions
| Deutsch | Schmelzwasser |
|---|---|
| Русский | та́яние tájanije |
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title = {melt},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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