Melt

Definition: Melt

Melt

Noun

1. The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid; "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours".

Verb

1. Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down gold"; "The wax melted in the sun".

2. Become or cause to become soft or liquid; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax".

3. Become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial; "With age, he mellowed".

4. Lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually; "Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene".

5. Become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "melt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Melt

Calefaction

Melt, thaw, fuse; liquefy .

Cessation

Verb: cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down.

Combination

Verb: combine, unite, incorporate, amalgamate, embody, absorb, reembody, blend, merge, fuse, melt into one, consolidate, coalesce, centralize, impregnate; put together, lump together; cement a union, marry.

Continuance in action

Verb: be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into, evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into, pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into, resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse; begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change.

Courtesy

Mind one's P's and Q's, behave oneself, be all things to all men, conciliate, speak one fair, take in good part; make the amiable, do the amiable; look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth; mend one's manners.

Fluidity

Verb: be fluid. Adjective: flow. (water in motion); liquefy, melt, condense .

Inexistence

Verb: not exist; have no existence; be null and void; cease to exist; pass away, perish; be extinct, become extinct; Adjective: die out; disappear; melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind; go, be no more; die.

Lamentation

Cry, weep, sob, greet, blubber, pipe, snivel, bibber, whimper, pule; pipe one's eye; drop tears, shed tears, drop a tear, shed a tear; melt into tears, burst into tears; fondre en larmes; cry oneself blind, cry one's eyes out; yammer.

Liquefaction

Verb: render liquid; liquefy, run; deliquesce; melt. (heat); solve; dissolve, resolve; liquate; hold in solution; condense, precipitate, rain.

Nonincrease, Decrease

Verb: decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge; (shorten); shrink; (contract); drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane, ebb, decline; descend; subside; melt away, die away; retire into the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish, decay, crumble.

Pity

Verb: pity; have pity, show pity, take pity; Noun: commiserate, compassionate; condole; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of.

Raise pity, excite pity; n.; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm.

Unsubstantiality

Verb: vanish, evaporate, fade, dissolve, melt away; disappear.

Waste

Leak; (run out); run to waste; ebb; melt away, run dry, dry up.

Crosswords: Melt

Silver white winters that melt into springs, these are a few of my favorite things (The Sound of Music; writing credit: Richard Rodgers; Oscar Hammerstein II)

What if it decides to go melt a bus load of nuns (Short Circuit; writing credit: Brent Maddock; S.S. Wilson)

Eminem, don't care where you melt. But today you get the rude award (Saturday Night Live; writing credit: Doug Abeles; Leo Allen)

I thought icebergs never melt. (The Prize; writing credit: Irving Wallace; Ernest Lehman)

Man, that's enough to melt an elephant (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys; writing credit: Jeff Stockwell)

When you smile, I melt inside (First Date; performing artist: Blink-182)

As they melt the years away (Yesterday Once More; performing artist: Carpenters)

Melt down like a candle burnin evertime we touch (Still; performing artist: Macy Gray)

Mmmmmm, if I could melt your heart (Frozen; performing artist: Madonna)

Will melt away (Hero; performing artist: Mariah Carey)

To cool a hot attitude, apply nice. To melt a cold attitude, address warmly. (references; author: unknown)

Love is the only fire hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creature's will. (references; author: unknown)

Sofa Melt (1999)

You'll Never Melt My Heart (performing artist: Lisa Koch)

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Books

• A Melt Down (reference)

• Crystal Pulling from the Melt (reference)

• Melt & Pour Soapmaking (reference)

• Melt Blowing (reference)

• Pistachio Peak: An Ice Cream Fairy Tale That Will Melt Your Heart (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Melt (reference)

• Melt Zonk Rewire (reference)

• Peter Gabriel 3: Melt [LIMITED EDITION] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Swatch TDA03-5US Digital Answering Machine, Melt Moon (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• HiPURformer WW60 Polyurethane Hot Melt Adhesive (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Increasing expanses of melted snow and ice during the spring melt. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Weasel traveling over frozen lake during spring melt period. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Using a boiler to melt the permafrost for setting a triangulation marker. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

When the melt begins, it's time to start working on the boats. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Watching the ice melt and breakup on the north shore of Tigvariak Island. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The first sign of the spring melt - a stream is seen flowing on the ice. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Indications of the coming spring melt - bare hills, pools of water, bare hands. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Aircraft unloading in the distance - spring melt well under way. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Snow builds up in Colorado's high forests. Snow melt is essential to western agriculture. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Snow melt from Mt. Rainier will help provide moisture for farm crops and water for municiple resevoirs. Credit: Tim McCabe.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And certainly the glass was beginning to melt away, just like a bright silvery mist

There was fire enough to melt them quickly into an unrecognisable ingot

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Economic History

Pakistan

The primary short-term reasons for the current acute irrigation shortage are two consecutive weak monsoons and inadequate glacier and snow melt due to below normal snowfall and cooler than normal temperatures. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "melt": a melt of two tons ♦ look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth ♦ melt a heart of stone ♦ melt again ♦ melt away ♦ melt down ♦ melt down all ♦ melt into ♦ melt into tears ♦ melt off ♦ melt together ♦ snow melt. Additional references.

Beginning with "melt": melt-down, melt-glued, melt-in-the-mouth, melt-of-the-heart, melt-out, melt-spun, melt-through, melt-water.

Ending with "melt": snow-melt.

Containing "melt": butter-won't-melt-in-your-mouth, butter-wouldn't-melt-in-her-mouth, butter-wouldn't-melt-in-mouth, low-melt-fraction.

Albanian

masë metali e shkrirë, zvogëlohem (remit), zhdukem (bugger off, die, disappear, fall away, go down the drain, grow dim, merge, ooze, scram, vanish), zbutet (attenuate, be soothed, mellow, relent, tone down), zbut (allay, amortise, amortize, appease, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, chasten, commute, daunt, disarm, ease, extenuate, malaxate, manage, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palatalize, palliate, propitiate, qualify, reclaim, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, tame, temper, tenderize, tone down), tretem (decompose, pine, resolve), tret (assimilate, cut, dissipate, dissolve, lose, macerate, thaw), shkrirje (amalgamation, coalescence, consolidation, creep, extinction, fusion, integration, melting, merger, smelt, tie up, welding), shkrij (consolidate, defreeze, disband, fuse, fuze, liquate, melt down, merge, smelt, thaw, thaw out, unite), shkrihet (merge), shkëmbej (bandy, barter, change, commute, exchange, interchange, swap, swop), pakësohem (decrease, diminish, drop off, dwindle, ease off, ease up, fall off, lessen, peter out, recede, slip, wane, weaken, worsen), harxhoj (consume, dissipate, eat, expend, expense, finish, fritter, invest, outlay, scatter, skittle away, spend, squander, trifle away, use up), dobësohem (become weak, decay, dilute, ebb, fail, flag, grow feeble, grow thin, lag, languish, reduce, relax, sink, slip, tone down, wane, weaken, wilt). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نحل (attenuate, decompose, degenerate, disband, disentangle, disintegrate, dissolve, emaciate, loosen, pervert, pine, resolve, slim, thin, unravel, untie, unwind), ‏تلاشى (disappear, dissolve, drain, evanesce, evaporate, fade, fall, flee, fly, go to pieces, molder, moulder, pass out of sight, peter, trail, vanish), ‏صهر (allied, fuse, fuze, melt down, smelt, smelting), ‏ذاب (dissolve, flux, fuse, fuze, render, solve, thaw), ‏إينصهر, ‏رق (serfdom, servitude, slavery, spare, thrall), ‏بدد (burn, dally, dawdle, devour, disperse, dissipate, fool, fritter, resolve, scatter, slattern, spend, spoil, squander, throwaway, waste). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разтопявам (dissolve, fuse, thaw), преливам (brim over, burst, fade, flow, infuse, merge, overbrim, overfill, overflow, overrun, run over, simmer over, slop over, transfuse, well over), преминавам (adjourn, get over, get through, go by, merge, overblow, overpass, pass, pass along, pass away, pass by, pass on, passage, proceed, run, shade, surmount, traverse), превръщам се (convert, merge, resolve), претопявам (melt down, pulp, try), омеквам (become soft, give, mellow, relent, soften, unbend), топя (dissolve, found, fuse, render, run, smelt, steep, thaw, try, unfreeze), плавка (float), разтапям (fuse, liquate), стопявам (burn away, melt away, melt down), разтварям (dissolve, expand, open, resolve, unclasp, unclose, unfold), сливам (amalgamate, combine, contract, fuse, incorporate, merge, run on, run together, slur), смекчавам (break down, chastise, correct, cushion, extenuate, humanize, lighten, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, qualify, quiet, retouch, season, smooth out, soften, subdue, tame, temper, turn, water down), умирам от горещина, увирам (melt away, stew), стопилка (smelt), стопен метал, размеквам се. (various references)

Chinese 

融解, 融化 (blend into; combine; fuse), 融 (harmonious, mild), 鑠 (bright, fuse), 溶化 , 泮 . (various references)

Czech

mizet (disappear, evanish, melt away, wane, wear off), tát (thaw), splývat v, rozpustit (break up, disband, dismiss, dissolve, fuse, resolve, take down). (various references)

Danish

smelte (molten rock). (various references)

Dutch

wegsmelten (thaw), ontdooien (thaw), dooien (thaw). (various references)

Esperanto

fandiĝi, fandi, degeli (thaw). (various references)

Faeroese

toya (thaw), tiðna (thaw), stoyta (dump, pour, pour out, scatter, shed), stoypa (cast, mold, mould), bræða. (various references)

Farsi 

مخلوطکردن (Commix, Hash, Interlard, Meddle, Ming, Mingle, Mix, Puddle, Roil, Temper), گداز, گداختن (Dissolve, Liquefy, Smelt, Thaw), ذوب کردن (Found), اب شدن . (various references)

Finnish

sulattaa (digest, put up with, smelt, stomach, take in), sulaa (be digested, dissolve, fuse). (various references)

French

fondre (melt down, melting, merge). (various references)

Frisian

teie (thaw). (various references)

German

schmelzen (liquefies, liquefy, melt away, melt down, meltdown, smelt), tauen (dew, thaw, to dew), Schmelze (melting, smelting, smelting plant). (various references)

Greek 

ρευστή μάζα υλικού (heat), υαλώδης φάση (glass phase, liquidus, vitreous phase), υαλότηγμα (bath of glass), λιώνω (grind, thaw, waste away), λυώνω (consume away, languish, macerate, scuff, thaw), τήκω (flux, fuse, fuze, liquefy, thaw), τήκομαι (fuse, fuze, liquefy, pine, sweal, thaw), τήγμα, τήξη (flux, fusion, melting, thaw). (various references)

Hebrew 

למוג (dissolve, soften, squeeze), למוסס (dissolve, solve, thaw), לפשור (compromise, cool off, thaw), להמיס (dissolve), להמוג (fade), להתיך (dissolve, fuse, melt down, smelt), להפשיר (defrost, temper, thaw, unfreeze), לההמס, לההתך, לנסוך (anoint, cast, consecrate, libate, pour). (various references)

Hungarian

olvaszt (to flux, to found, to fuse, to fuze, to melt), olvadás (thaw), olvad (ran, run, to melt, to run), elolvad (melt away, ran, run, to run), elérzékenyül (to be overcome by emotion), összeolvad (merge, to fuse, to fuze, to incorporate), ömledék (all-weld-metal test specimen). (various references)

Indonesian

mencair (deliquesce, liquefy, melting), melebur (fuse, merge, wipe out), melarutkan (dissolve), cair (fluid, thin, weak). (various references)

Inuktitut

auktuq (to melt). (various references)

Irish

leáigh. (various references)

Italian

sgelare (thaw), fusione (amalgamation, burning, fusion, melting, merger, merging, smelt, smelting), sciogliere (be dissolved, break up, crack, deatch, detach, disband, dissolve, loose, loosen, release, render, resolve, set free, shake out, solve, thaw, unbend, unbind, unchain, undo, unfix, untie). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

メルカトル図法 (characteristic, fairy tale, having a fairy tale atmosphere, Melbourne, meltdown, melton, Mercator's projection, Mercedes-Benz, Thank You). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

メルト . (various references)

Korean 

용해. (various references)

Maya

yiib (to melt). (various references)

Pig Latin

eltmay.(various references)

Portuguese

fusão (amalgamation, casting, consolidation, debacle, fusion, interflow, interfusion, meltdown, melting, merger, merging), derreter (flux, found, fuse, gutter, liquefy, thaw). (various references)

Romanian

topi (consume, destroy, dissolve, flux, found, fuse, melt down, render, ret, rot, smelt, thaw, wick). (various references)

Russian 

расплавленный металл (smelt), плавиться (fuse, fuze), плавка (cast, fuse, fuze, melting, smelt), таять (thaw), таять;плавить плавка, топить (drown, heat, sink), плавить (flux, fuse, fuze, liquate, smelts), расплавиться, стаять, расплавлять (liquefy, melt down), растаять (thaw), растопить (kindle), растворять (dissolve, macerate, melt down, resolve), смягчать (assuage, attenuate, commute, damp, extenuate, mellow, mitigate, moderate, mollify, palatalize, palliate, relax, remit, soft pedal, soften, subdue, tone down), смягчаться (relax, relent, soften, tone down), топиться (burn, drown oneself). (various references)

Scottish

leagh (become liquid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umekšati (mollify), topiti (alloy, found, liquate, render), rastopiti (liquefy, melt down, thaw), raskraviti (thaw), otopiti (defrost, thaw out), odlediti (defreeze, defrost), istopljen metal, istopiti se. (various references)

Spanish

derretirse (fusion, melting, smelt, thaw). (various references)

Swedish

smälta (digest, dissolve, flux, fuse, liquate, liquefy, liquify, render, smelt), tina (thaw, tub). (various references)

Turkish

yumuşatmak (attemper, chasten, dulcify, limber up, loosen, mellow, moderate, mollify, mute, relax, season, shake up, smooth, soft pedal, soften, supple, tame, unbend, unman), yumuşamak (let loose, let upon, limber up, mellow, moderate, relax, relent, soften, sweeten, unbend), eriyik (dilution, solution), eritmek (dissolve, fuse, fuze, make a dent in, reduce, render, smelt, thaw, unfreeze, whittle away, whittle off), erimek (deliquesce, dissolve, fuse, pine, pine away, run, thaw), ergimek. (various references)

Turkmen 

eremek (thaw). (various references)

Ukrainian

розчинятися (solve), розтоплювати (defrost, thaw), танути (defrost, evanish, melt away, thaw), плавити (fuse, liquate, melt down, smelt). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự tan kim loại nấu chảy mẻ nấu kim loại, sự nấu chảy (melting). (various references)

Welsh

ymdoddi (become dissolved), toddi (dissolve, thaw). (various references)

contabescant, contabescent, contabescet, contabuerunt, detabescent, dissoluta, dissolutae, dissolutas, dissolutis, dissolutum, dissolutus, dissolvam, dissolvantur, dissolvat, dissolvatur, dissolvebant, dissolvenda, dissolventur, dissolvere, dissolverem, dissolveris, dissolverunt, dissolvetur, dissolvi, dissolvisset, dissolvisti, dissolvit, dissolvitur, extabuerunt, fervefacio, fundere, fundo, liquefacere, liquefaciens, liquefaciet, liquefacta, liquefactum, liquefiat, liquescens, liquescent, liquescit, tabefac, tabefacit, tabefacti, tabefactus, tabescat, tabescebam, tabescebant, tabescens, tabescent, tabescente, tabescere, tabescerent, tabescet, tabescetis, tabescimus, tabescit, tabuerunt. (various references)

gemeltan. (various references)

fondre. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "melt": meltabilities, meltability, meltable, meltage, meltages, meltdown, meltdowns, melted, melter, melters, melting, meltingly, melton, meltons, melts, meltwater, meltwaters. (additional references)

Words ending with "melt": jacksmelt, overmelt, remelt, resmelt, smelt, snowmelt. (additional references)

Words containing "melt": jacksmelts, overmelted, overmelting, overmelts, remelted, remelting, remelts, resmelted, resmelting, resmelts, smelted, smelter, smelteries, smelters, smeltery, smelting, smelts, snowmelts, unmelted. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Melt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: elt, emult, malat, malg, malot, malto, mault, meel, Meert, meft, mehl, Meht, meit, mel, mela, melet, melf, melg, meli, melit, Melita, Melito, Melitz, Melk, mell, mellte, meln, melot, melsh, melta, melty, Meltz, Mely, melz, mert, metl, metle, mett, mewt, mielt, milkt, milti, mle, mlt, molut, mulot, mult, multa, myel, mytl, nalt, nelt, Neltc, netl, Qelt, yelt, zelt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: elm, let, mel, met, tel.

-2 letters: el, em, et, me.

+1 letter: melts, metal, motel, smelt.

+2 letters: amulet, armlet, camlet, gimlet, hamlet, helmet, lament, lamest, limpet, loment, luteum, malate, mallet, malted, mantel, mantle, meatal, meetly, melted, melter, melton, mental, merlot, metals, methyl, mettle, millet, milted, milter, molest, molted, molten, molter, motels, motile, motley, mottle, muleta, mullet, mutely, mutuel, mutule, myrtle, omelet, pelmet, remelt, samlet, smelts, tamale, tamely, telium, telome, temple, termly, timely, tramel, tumble.