melt¹ /melt/

1. To change from a solid into a liquid state, esp by heat
2. To fuse
3. To dissolve
4. To stream with liquid
5. To lose distinct form
6. To blend
7. To shade off
8. To become imperceptible
9. To disperse, be dissipated, disappear (sometimes with away)
10. To soften emotionally

To cause to melt in any sense

1. The act of melting
2. The state of being melted
3. Molten material
4. The quantity melted
5. A dish with melted cheese

meltˈable adjective

meltˈer noun

meltˈing noun and adjective

meltˈingly adverb

meltˈingness noun

meltˈy adjective

Liable to melt

mōltˈen adjective

1. Melted
2. Made of melted metal

mōltˈenly adverb

meltˈdown noun

1. The process in which, due to a failure of the cooling system, the radioactive fuel in a nuclear reactor overheats, melts through its insulation, and is released into the environment
2. An unforeseen and disastrous failure, with possible wide-reaching effects, such as a crash on the stock market

meltˈing-point noun

The temperature at which a given solid begins to become liquid

meltˈing-pot noun

1. A container for melting things in
2. A place characterized by the intermixing of several races or cultures
3. A state of dissolution preparatory to shaping anew (see also in the melting-pot below)

melting temperature noun (biology)

The temperature at which half the molecules in a nucleic acid solution have undergone thermal denaturation, ie DNA dissociated into single strands

meltˈ-water noun

Water running off melting ice or snow

in the melting-pot

In the process of changing and forming something new

melt down

1. To turn metal into a molten state
2. (of fuel in a nuclear reactor) to overheat, causing radioactivity to escape

melt in the mouth

(of food) to be delicious

molten salt reactor

One in which uranium is dissolved in a molten mixture of fluoride salts

molten sea see under sea

milt /milt/ or melt /melt/

1. The spleen (also, in Jewish cookery, miltz /milts/)
2. The soft roe of male fishes

(of fishes) to impregnate

miltˈer noun

A male fish, esp in the breeding season

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