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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024melt1 /mɛlt/USA pronunciation v. - Physicsto (cause to) become liquid by heat: [no object]In just a few hours the snow melted.[~ + object]The hot sun melted the snow.
- to dissolve:[no object]Melt 1/4 cup of sugar in 2 cups of boiling water.
- to (cause to) become less or nothing: [no object]His fortune slowly melted away.[~ + object + away]The cost of her medicine melted their savings away.[~ + away + object]The cost melted away their savings.
- to pass;
blend:[no object]Night melted into day. - to (cause to) become softened in feeling: [no object]His heart melted when he heard about her problems.[~ + object]a story that would melt your heart.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024melt1 (melt),USA pronunciation v., melt•ed, melt•ed or mol•ten, melt•ing, n. v.i. - Physicsto become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
- to become liquid;
dissolve:Let the cough drop melt in your mouth. - to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually (often fol. by away):His fortune slowly melted away.
- to pass, change, or blend gradually (often fol. by into):Night melted into day.
- to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like:The tyrant's heart would not melt.
- [Obs.]to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc.
v.t. - to reduce to a liquid state by warmth or heat;
fuse:Fire melts ice. - to cause to pass away or fade.
- to cause to pass, change, or blend gradually.
- to soften in feeling, as a person or the heart.
n. - the act or process of melting;
state of being melted. - something that is melted.
- a quantity melted at one time.
- Fooda sandwich or other dish topped with melted cheese:a tuna melt.
- bef. 900; Middle English melten, Old English meltan (intrans.), m(i)elten (transitive) to melt, digest; cognate with Old Norse melta to digest, Greek méldein to melt
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged Melt, dissolve, fuse, thaw imply reducing a solid substance to a liquid state. To melt is to bring a solid to a liquid condition by the agency of heat:to melt butter.Dissolve, though sometimes used interchangeably with melt, applies to a different process, depending upon the fact that certain solids, placed in certain liquids, distribute their particles throughout the liquids:A greater number of solids can be dissolved in water and in alcohol than in any other liquids.To fuse is to subject a solid (usually a metal) to a very high temperature; it applies esp. to melting or blending metals together:Bell metal is made by fusing copper and tin.To thaw is to restore a frozen substance to its normal (liquid, semiliquid, or more soft and pliable) state by raising its temperature above the freezing point:Sunshine will thaw ice in a lake.
- 4.See corresponding entry in Unabridged dwindle.
- 10.See corresponding entry in Unabridged gentle, mollify, relax.
melt2 (melt),USA pronunciation n. - the spleen, esp. that of a cow, pig, etc.
Also, milt. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: melt /mɛlt/ vb (melts, melting, melted, melted, molten /ˈməʊltən/)- to liquefy (a solid) or (of a solid) to become liquefied, as a result of the action of heat
- to become or make liquid; dissolve
- (often followed by away) to disappear; fade
- (followed by down) to melt (metal scrap) for reuse
- (often followed by into) to blend or cause to blend gradually
- to make or become emotional or sentimental; soften
n - the act or process of melting
- something melted or an amount melted
Etymology: Old English meltan to digest; related to Old Norse melta to malt (beer), digest, Greek meldein to meltˈmeltable adj ˈmelter n ˈmeltingly adv |