melt
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
government
natural-sciences
politics
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: melts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: melting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: melted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: molt
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
form: melted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: molt
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: molten
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: melt
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: melt
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: melted
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: molt
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: melt
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: meltest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: melted
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: molt
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: meltedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: melts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: melteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: melted
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: molt
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: melt
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: melted
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: molt
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: melt
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: melted
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: molt
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: melt
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: melting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: melted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: molten
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: melts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: I melted butter to make a cake.
When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.
gloss: To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: His troubles melted away.
I gave him a couple of Advil and, after a few minutes, urged him back onto the track. Over the next few laps his pained expression slowly melted, although he still shuffled with a slight limp.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
figuratively
examples: Thou would'st have […] melted down thy youth.
For pity melts the mind to love.
The traveller hears me now and then,
⁠And sometimes harshly will he speak:
⁠‘This fellow would make weakness weak,
And melt the waxen hearts of men.’
He was very dubious at first, but I believe the fellow is genuine in his attachment to the house. His final scruple melted when he learned that I should not require him to sit up with me.
gloss: To be discouraged.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To be emotionally softened or touched.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.
My heart melted when I first heard the song.
gloss: To be very hot and sweat profusely.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: I need shade! I'm melting!
gloss: Molten material, the product of melting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle.
Users can see how a glacier at the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania retreated between December 1986 and 2020, as well as glacial melt in Sermersooq, Greenland, between December 2000 and 2020.
gloss: The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A melt sandwich.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I recently asked a group of people whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid. Everyone remembered a version of this dish.
gloss: Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Numerous samples of breccia and impact melts were recovered by drilling into the floor of the crater.
gloss: A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A soft, soppy, or overly emotional person.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
derogatory
slang
uncountable
examples: You are from Blackburn you fucking melt...have a bastard word with yourself.
Kiss it ya melt!
LOL! you fucking melt. Get a job.
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.
gloss: A centre-left or liberal person, when in opposition to a leftist; (especially) a critic of Jeremy Corbyn within the Labour Party.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
derogatory
slang
uncountable
examples: Anyone who said different was a Tory, a melt or – worse – a Blairite. Centrists (mostly Labour voters) were the devil incarnate.
They developed their own lexicon, with Corbyn critics referred to as 'melts' or 'slugs' while their man was lauded as 'the absolute boy'.
gloss: Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
Related words: smelt
Derived words: brain-melting
butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
chain-melted state
face-melting
formelt
high-melting
low-melting
meld
meltability
meltable
meltage
melt away
meltaway
melt down
melter
melting moment
melting-pot
melting pot
melt in the mouth
melt into
meltoff
melt out
meltproof
melt someone's butter
melt up
meltwater
melty
overmelt
premelt
remelt
unmelt
zone melting
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
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