melt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Forms: form: melts
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”).
Senses: examples: text: The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle.
ref: 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
glosses: Molten material, the product of melting.
glosses: The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
glosses: The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
examples: text: I recently asked a group of people whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid. Everyone remembered a version of this dish.
ref: 2002, Tod Dimmick, Complete idiot's guide to 20-minute meals:
glosses: A melt sandwich.
examples: text: Numerous samples of breccia and impact melts were recovered by drilling into the floor of the crater.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
synonyms: tart
glosses: A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
examples: text: You are from Blackburn you fucking melt...have a bastard word with yourself.
ref: 2003 June 10, Roo, “See the Quality !!!”, in alt.sports.soccer.everton (Usenet):
text: Kiss it ya melt!
ref: 2004 September 20, Diablos Rojos, “North South divide??”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.liverpool (Usenet):
text: LOL! you fucking melt. Get a job.
ref: 2006 May 30, Dave G, “England vs Hungary...”, in alt.sports.soccer.everton (Usenet):
text: Over the course of this chapter on 'Love Island Essentials' we'll be charting exactly who went with who, showing you around the villa, and equipping you with the vocabulary you'll need to avoid looking like a melt and get grafting like a true Islander.
ref: 2017, Love Island On Paper: The Official Love Island Guide to Grafting, Cracking On and Mugging Off, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: An idiot.
examples: text: Anyone who said different was a Tory, a melt or – worse – a Blairite. Centrists (mostly Labour voters) were the devil incarnate.
ref: 2019 December 17, Suzanne Moore, The Guardian:
text: They developed their own lexicon, with Corbyn critics referred to as 'melts' or 'slugs' while their man was lauded as 'the absolute boy'.
ref: [2019 October 17, Asa Bennett, Romanifesto: Modern Lessons from Classical Politics, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A centre-left or liberal person, when in opposition to a leftist; (especially) a critic of Jeremy Corbyn within the Labour Party.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1825, Lochandhu: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century, page 28:
glosses: Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.
Derived terms: deadmelt
hotmelt
hot melt adhesive
hot melt glue
icemelt
impact melt
melt pond
patty melt
snowmelt
snow melt
spring melt
summer melt
tuna melt
undermelt