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Definitions: Malt |
MaltNoun1. A milkshake made with malt powder. 2. Alcoholic beverage made with malt. 3. Grain that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling. Verb1. Treat with malt or malt extract. 2. Turn into malt, become malt. 3. Convert grain into malt. 4. Convert into malt. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "malt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | A humble grain which often gets into a ferment, cools off and becomes Stout in its old age. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of malt, betokens a pleasant existence and riches that will advance your station. To dream of taking malted drinks, denotes that you will interest yourself in some dangerous affair, but will reap much benefit therefrom. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Germinated grain which is usually subsequently dried in hot-air kilns. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Malt The Sermon on Malt was by John Dod, rector of Fawsley, Northants, called the decalogist, from his famous exposition of the Ten Commandments. A Puritan divine. (1547-1645.) This was not Dr. William Dodd, who was executed for forgery (1729-1777). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MALT | Swedish | Mukosa-associerad lymfoid vävnad | Medicine |
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Synonyms: MaltSynonyms: malt liquor (n), malted (n), malted milk (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn, stingo, heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus, cup, bishop, wassail; gin; (intoxicating liquor); coffee, chocolate, cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer, Pilsener beer, schenck beer; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water, mate, mint julep; near beer. beer, non-alcoholic beverage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage; and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) | |
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![]() | Malt Bitters : The House That Jack Built / Forbes Co., Boston.Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Stimulation Without Intoxication. : Malt Bitters. / Forbes Co., Boston.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Malt houses, Walker distillery, Walkerville, Ont.Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Production. Industrial alcohol. These 40,000 gallon tanks in the fermenting room of a converted whiskey distillery produce industrial alcohol by the action of yeast upon cooked grain whose starches have been changed to sugars by the enzyme action of malt.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Perry tells me that Mr. Cole never touches malt liquor. |
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Health | Beer ranges considerably in its alcohol content, with malt liquor being higher in its alcohol content than most other brewed beverages. (references) | |
Preliminary epidemiologic data suggest that H. pylori infection is associated with both non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and MALT lymphomas of the stomach. (references) | ||
Business | The liquor tax of 222,000 yen per kiloliter is equivalent to about 77.7 yen per 350ml can. Happoshu's liquor tax differs depending on the malt content. (references) | |
These import duties however, will be abolished from 2002. In addition to the import duty, beer is subject to a liquor tax of 222,000 yen per kiloliter and happoshu is subject to a liquor tax, which ranges from 222,000 yen to 105,000 yen per kiloliter depending on the malt content. (references) | ||
For happoshu, if the malt content is 25% or less of the weight of total ingredients, excluding water weight, the tax is 105 yen per liter; if the malt content is between 25% to 50% of the weight of total ingredients, it will be taxed at 152.7 yen per liter; and if the malt content is between 50% to 66.6%, it is taxed at 222 yen per liter. (references) | ||
Economic History | Ukraine | Import duties of 30+ACU- and 50+ACU- are imposed on malt and hops, respectively. (references) |
Ukraine | Two specialized plants located in Berdychiv (Zhytomyr oblast) and Slavuta (Khmelmytsky oblast) supply domestic malt. (references) | |
China | For corn and barley, the underlying demand factors in the next five years will be limited land for local production, increasing population, better incomes as well as changing consumer preferences, which will mean increased demand for feed corn and barley to malt for beer. (references) | |
Political Economy | COLOMBIA | Some of these products, which include important U.S. exports to Colombia, are wheat, malt barley, corn, rice, sorghum, and wheat flour. (references) |
Trade | Brazil | Breeder livestock (cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses and donkeys, including semen and embryos); wine and brandy, distilled spirits (rum, wodka and whiskey); fresh vegetables (asparagus, beans, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, garlic, lettuce, onions, peppers, potatoes and tomatoes); canned vegetables (asparagus, beans, carrots, corn, peas, tomatoes and tomato paste); frozen vegetables (beans, broccoli, carrots, corn and spinach); peanut butter or peanut flour; dairy products (butter, butter oil, ghee, anhydrous milk fat, non-fat and whole milk powder, whey powder, whey protein concentrate, lactose, non-sweetened condensed milk, fluid milk, lecithin and cheese); ice cream; meat, frozen or chilled (beef, pork and their products);wheat, wheat flour, semolina; cotton, 100% cotton yarn, 100% cotton fabrics (woven and knit unbleached/bleached/dyed, and/or printed); rice; feed grains (barley, including malting barley, white corn, yellow corn, sorghum and oats); corn products (flour, starch, corn meal, popcorn and gluten); pulses(dry beans, peas and lentils), poultry breeder stock (baby chicks, turkey pouts and hatching eggs); eggs and egg products (fresh, dry, refrigerated, frozen, albumin, etc); fresh fruits (apples, apricots, avocados, blueberries, cherries, grapes, grapefruit, kiwi, lemons, melons, nectarines, oranges, pears, plums, peaches, raspberries and tangerines); hops: hops extract; tallow: grease, lard, barley malt; potatoes(cut and chilled or frozen; flakes, granules); peanuts; commercially prepared dog and cat food, animal feed ingredients, fish food; seeds for sowing; almonds ( walnuts, pistachios, hazelnut and pecan); dry fruits, frozen fruits, canned fruits, fruit pure and fruit pulp, 100% natural fruit juice; seafood (fresh and frozen);tomato paste; alfalfa; honey; skins; nutritional beverages preparations (for human consumption); soy protein products; vegetable oils; wood; beer; cereals; preparation for breads and pizzas (powder, refrigerated of frozen); canned pickles; ready-to-eat meals; soft drinks and sodas; soups and sauces. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Malt" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.20% of the time. "Malt" is used about 376 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.2% | 373 | 14,596 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.8% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 376 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Turkey | Anadolu Efes Biracilik ve Malt Sanayi A.S. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "malt": Malt dust ♦ malt extract ♦ Malt floor ♦ Malt house ♦ Malt kiln ♦ malt liquor ♦ malt loaf ♦ MALT lymphoma ♦ malt sprouts ♦ malt sugar ♦ malt whiskey ♦ malt whisky ♦ To couch malt. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "malt": malt-house, malt-loaf, malt-milling, malt-sacks, malt-vats, malt-worm. | |
Ending with "malt": chocolate-malt, single-malt. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
malt | 113 |
malt meal o | 72 |
malt liquor | 60 |
malt meal.com o | 42 |
malt beverage | 35 |
malt whisky | 32 |
malt lymphoma | 31 |
crystal malt | 30 |
single malt | 29 |
malt extract | 26 |
gruvis malt | 17 |
malt barley | 15 |
malt powder | 14 |
malt vinegar | 14 |
malt shop | 13 |
malt whiskey | 12 |
chocolate malt | 11 |
malt rare whisky | 10 |
duck malt | 10 |
malt scotch | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "malt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | malt, ndërroj (cast, change, commute, distort, dress, exchange, proselytize, relay, relieve, remove, transfigure, veer), birrë (ale, beer, table-beer, tap, wallop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ملت حول إلي ملت, ملت شعير مخمر, جعة (beer, stout), شعير منقوع بيرة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ставам на малц, слад, малц (grist), правя на малц. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 麥芽 , 麦芽. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sladovat, slad, promìnit v slad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | malt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | mout. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mallas. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | malt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Malz (malts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βύνη. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ללתות, לתת (allow, establish, give, grant, hand over, let, make, permit, render), שעורת שכר. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | maláta. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | malto (barleycorn, bruised barley, grist, malts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 麹 (leaven, mould used to make sake, yeast), 麦芽 , マルチ商法 (Malaysia, multilevel marketing system), モリブデン酸アンモニウ (ammonium molybdate, guinea pig, malt whisky, marmotte, Moldavia, molybdenium, morgue, morphine, mortar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | マルツ , モルト , ばくが (accomplished, extensive knowledge, well-informed), "うじ (affairs after one's death, alley, bait, construction work, curious, decoy, edict, fortune, future affairs, good deed, government business, higher-order-, lane, leaven, lure, meta-, mould used to make sake, mouth and ear, public announcement, yeast). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 맥아. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bry, braih, braghey (ferment, fermentation, fermentation of cereals, malted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | altmay malte (malt extract), delito (crime, delict, delinquency, fault, guilt, guiltily, misdeem, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, misdoing, offence, offense, transgression). (various references) malţ, face malţ. (various references) солод. (various references) braich (fermented grain), brach. (various references) slad (grains), praviti slad. (various references) malta (Malta, malts, Republic of Malta). (various references) malt. (various references) maltlaştırmak, malt yapmak, malt. (various references) солод (grist), робити солод, додавати солод. (various references) mạch nha, có mạch nha; l m bằng mạch nha. (various references) bragu (brew), brag. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "malt": maltase, maltases, malted, malteds, maltha, malthas, maltier, maltiest, malting, maltol, maltols, maltose, maltoses, maltreat, maltreated, maltreater, maltreaters, maltreating, maltreatment, maltreatments, maltreats, malts, maltster, maltsters, malty. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "malt": smalt. (additional references) | |
Words containing "malt": schmaltz, schmaltzes, schmaltzier, schmaltziest, schmaltzy, shmaltz, shmaltzes, shmaltzier, shmaltziest, shmaltzy, smalti, smaltine, smaltines, smaltite, smaltites, smalto, smaltos, smalts. (additional references) | |
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"Malt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Amlot, maal, mact, maft, magt, Mahl, mait, malat, mald, maleta, malg, Malk, malot, malp, malr, malte, malto, maltz, Malu, mant, Matla, mault, maut, mawt, melf, melg, melit, melot, melsh, melta, melty, metl, mgal, mielt, milkt, milti, mlt, molut, mulot, mult, multa, Mutla, mwali, nalt, ralt, zalt. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "malt" (pronounced mô"lt) |
| 3 | -ô" l t | assault, basalt, default, exalt, fault, Gault, halt, salt, Sault, vault. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-m-t" | |
-1 letter: alt, lam, lat, mat, tam. | |
-2 letters: al, am, at, la, ma, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-m-t" | |
+1 letter: malts, malty, metal, smalt, tamal. | |
+2 letters: almost, amatol, amulet, armlet, camlet, hamlet, lactam, lament, lamest, malate, mallet, maloti, malted, maltha, maltol, mantel, mantle, meatal, mental, metals, mitral, mortal, muleta, mutual, ramtil, samlet, smalti, smalto, smalts, stomal, talcum, tamale, tamals, tamely, timbal, tombal, tramel, tymbal, ultima, umlaut. | |
+3 letters: ailment, aliment, amatols, amplest, amulets, armlets, bimetal, calmest, calumet, camlets, clamant, climate, emulate, flotsam, hamlets, hematal, implant, intimal, lactams, lambast, lambent, lambert, laments, lamster, lemmata, liftman, limbate, lomenta, maillot, malates, maleate, mallets, maltase, malteds, malthas, maltier, malting, maltols, maltose, mantels, mantled, mantles, mantlet, marital, marlite, marplot, martial, martlet, matelot, matilda, matinal, matless, meatily, meltage, metaled, metical, militia, mistral, mortals, mudflat, mulatto, muletas, mutable, mutably, mutuals, mutular, oatmeal, omental, optimal, palmate, palmist, plumate, ramtils, samlets, shmaltz, smaltos, smartly, somital, stammel, stigmal, stromal, talcums, tamable, tamales, tambala, tampala, telamon, teleman, templar, thalami, thermal, timbale, timbals, timbral, tollman, tombola, tramell, tramels, trammel, trample, tumoral, tumular, tymbals, ultimas, umlauts. | |
+4 letters: ailments, alarmist, aliments, almagest, almighty, altruism, alumroot, ambulant, ambulate, amitrole, antimale, atomical, atremble, autumnal, bailment, balmiest, bimetals, blastema, blastoma, calamint, calamite, calamity, calumets, cellmate, celomata, claimant, clematis, climatal, climates, climatic, comatula, comitial, compleat, cumulate, custumal, dalmatic, diplomat, embattle, emulated, emulates, emulator, fatalism, filament, flameout, flamiest, flatmate, flatworm, flotsams, gliomata, gunmetal, haematal, halftime, halutzim, hamulate, helpmate, hotelman, imitable, immolate, immortal, implants, lambaste, lambasts, lamberts, lambiest, lamented, lamenter, laminate, lamister, lamppost, lamsters, ligament, limitary, lipomata, lithemia, loamiest, maculate, maillots, malamute, malapert, maleates, maledict, malemiut, malemute, malmiest, maltases, maltiest, maltoses, maltreat, maltster, manliest, mannitol, mantelet, mantilla, mantlets, mantling, marliest, marlites, marlitic, marplots, martello, martlets, martyrly, masscult, masterly, mastless, mastlike, mateless, matelote, matelots, material, materiel, maternal, matildas, matronal, matronly, mattedly, maturely, mealiest, mealtime, meatball, meatless, meatloaf, medalist, megalith, megavolt, melanist, melanite, meltable, meltages, mentally, mesnalty, metaling, metalise, metalist, metalize, metalled, metallic, metazoal, methanol, methylal, meticals, metrical, militant, military, militate, militias, minutial, misalter, misdealt, misplant, mistrals, mistrial, moatlike, modality, modulate, molality, molarity, moralist, morality, mortally, mothball, motional, mudflats, mulattos, multiage, multicar, muralist, muscatel, mutilate, mutually, myoblast, mystical, mythical, nonmetal, oatmeals, palmated, palmette, palmetto, palmiest, palmists, palmitin, pamphlet, plastrum, platform, platinum, playmate, playtime, polymath, primatal, psalmist, ptyalism, realtime, remittal, rolamite, schmaltz, shmaltzy, simulant, simulate, smallest, smaltine, smaltite, solatium, staminal, stammels, staumrel, steamily, stillman, stomatal, summital, taillamp, talesman, talesmen, taleysim, talisman, tallisim, tallitim, tallyman, tallymen, talmudic, tambalas, tameable, tameless, tampalas, tantalum, tegminal, telegram, telemark, templars, template, temporal, terminal, thalamic, thalamus, thallium, thermals, thraldom, timbales, tomalley, tombolas, totalism, trameled, tramells, tramless, tramline, trammels, trampled, trampler, tramples, tympanal, ultimacy, ultimata, ultimate, ultraism, umlauted, vitalism, voltaism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 6C 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01101100 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a l t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 006C 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47677886 |
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