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Melt
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- 1 Molten material, the product of melting. countable, uncountable
"The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle."
- 2 Acronym of metrics, events, logs, and traces. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
"Another way to describe APM suites is that they are the monitoring technology that makes MELT data collection possible and useful for SREs."
- 3 the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid wordnet
- 4 The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state. countable, uncountable
- 5 The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions. countable, uncountable
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- 6 A melt sandwich. countable, uncountable
"I recently asked a group of people whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid. Everyone remembered a version of this dish."
- 7 Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified. countable, uncountable
"Numerous samples of breccia and impact melts were recovered by drilling into the floor of the crater."
- 8 A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water. countable, uncountable
- 9 An idiot. UK, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
"You are from Blackburn you fucking melt...have a bastard word with yourself."
- 10 A centre-left or liberal person, when in opposition to a leftist; (especially) a critic of Jeremy Corbyn within the Labour Party. UK, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
"Anyone who said different was a Tory, a melt or – worse – a Blairite. Centrists (mostly Labour voters) were the devil incarnate."
- 11 Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 1 To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. ergative
"I melted butter to make a cake."
- 2 become less intense and fade away gradually wordnet
- 3 To dissolve, disperse, vanish. figuratively, intransitive
"His troubles melted away."
- 4 become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly wordnet
- 5 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. figuratively, transitive
"Thou would'st have […] melted down thy youth."
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- 6 become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial wordnet
- 7 To be discouraged. intransitive
- 8 become or cause to become soft or liquid wordnet
- 9 To be emotionally softened or touched. figuratively, intransitive
"She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card."
- 10 lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually wordnet
- 11 To be very hot and sweat profusely. colloquial, intransitive
"I need shade! I'm melting!"
- 12 reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating wordnet
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- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).
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”).
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