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单词 meltability
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
melt1 /mɛlt/USA pronunciation   v. 
  1. Physicsto (cause to) become liquid by heat: [no object]In just a few hours the snow melted.[+ object]The hot sun melted the snow.
  2. to dissolve:[no object]Melt 1/4 cup of sugar in 2 cups of boiling water.
  3. 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.
  4. to pass;
    blend:[no object]Night melted into day.
  5. 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 © 2024
melt1  (melt),USA pronunciation v., melt•ed, melt•ed or mol•ten, melt•ing, n. 
v.i. 
  1. Physicsto become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
  2. to become liquid;
    dissolve:Let the cough drop melt in your mouth.
  3. to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually (often fol. by away):His fortune slowly melted away.
  4. to pass, change, or blend gradually (often fol. by into):Night melted into day.
  5. to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like:The tyrant's heart would not melt.
  6. [Obs.]to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc.

v.t. 
  1. to reduce to a liquid state by warmth or heat;
    fuse:Fire melts ice.
  2. to cause to pass away or fade.
  3. to cause to pass, change, or blend gradually.
  4. to soften in feeling, as a person or the heart.

n. 
  1. the act or process of melting;
    state of being melted.
  2. something that is melted.
  3. a quantity melted at one time.
  4. 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
melta•ble, adj. 
melt′a•bili•ty, n. 
melting•ly, adv. 
melting•ness, n. 
    • 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. 
  1. the spleen, esp. that of a cow, pig, etc.
Also, milt. 
  • variant of milt 1575–85

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