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Definitions: Meld |
MeldNoun1. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to meld groups of seven of the same rank. Verb1. Announce for a score; of cards in a card game. 2. Lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually; "Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene". 3. Mix together different elements; "The colors blend well"; "fuse the clutter of detail into a rich narrative"--A. Schlesinger. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Computing | MELD A concurrent, object-oriented, dataflow, modular and fault-tolerant language! MELD is comparable to SR. ["MELDing Multiple Granularities of Parallelism", G. Kaiser et al, ECOOP '89, pp. 147-166, Cambridge U Press 1989]. (1994-11-11). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Math | Joining several data structures with particular properties into one large data structure having those properties. For instance, some priority queue implementations support the operation of joining two priority queues into a larger one. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Melding is typical in games of the Rummy family. such as Canasta and Gin.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Meld."
Synonyms: MeldSynonyms: basket rummy (n), canasta (n), blend (v), coalesce (v), combine (v), commingle (v), conflate (v), flux (v), fuse (v), immix (v), melt (v), merge (v), mix (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Meld |
| English words defined with "meld": basket rummy ♦ canasta ♦ rum, rummy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "meld": binomial heap ♦ confluently persistent data structure ♦ Fibonnaci heap ♦ MELDC ♦ Vulcan mind meld. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Meld" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (acquaint, advertise, announce, give, give an account, give notice, inform, let know, report), Dutch (announce). |
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Screenplays | I'll have to, like, meld with the meal. (Tiny Toon Adventures; writing credit: Charles Adler; Pat Allee) | |
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Business | One of the most significant developments in the business telecommunications sector over the coming years will be the creation of virtual network operators (VNO) - companies that meld together all forms of communication - fixed link, mobile, voice, data into a seamless service to the customer. (references) | |
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| "Meld" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Meld" is used about 7 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 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 71.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
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| 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 |
meld | 21 |
meld score | 19 |
vulcan mind meld | 4 |
mind meld | 4 |
calculator meld | 3 |
mayo meld | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "meld"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | lajmëroj (advertise, advertize, announce, annunciate, break the news, declare, give notice, Herald, let know, message, notify, portend, send word). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обÑвÑвам (advertise, advertize, announce, bill, declare, intimate, post, proclaim, promulgate, put up, vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | losvorm (discharge mould, spout meld), gietvorm (matrix, mold, mould). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | valumuotti (discharge mould, spout meld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | démoulage (spout meld), cabot (spout meld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | melden (advertise, announce, bay, enter, give an account, give notice, notify, register, report, to announce, to notify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | `Aδειασμα ÎºÎ±Î»Î¿Ï…Ï€Î¹Î¿Ï (discharge mould, spout meld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | bemond (announce, gone, to announce, to call, to go, to meld, went). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | stampo di colata (discharge mould, spout meld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eldmay molde de vazamento (discharge mould, spout meld), molde de descarga (discharge mould, spout meld). (various references) объÑвлÑть (announce, annunciate, declare, declaring, enunciate, give out, notify, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce). (various references) promeÅ¡ati karte. (various references) desmoldeo (discharge mould, spout meld). (various references) canasta (canasta). (various references) à¸à¸²à¸£à¸£à¸§à¸¡à¸•ัว (coalescence), à¸à¸²à¸£à¸›à¸£à¸°à¸à¸²à¸¨à¹à¸•้ม, รวมà¸à¸±à¸™ (combine, join up, tag together). (various references) karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, snarl, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, trim, tumble, unsettle, weave), karışmak (amalgamate, be confused, be mixed up, blend, butt in, combine, commingle, commix, concern, concern oneself, cut in, cut into, get mixed, have one's hand in, interfere, interfuse, interlace, intermeddle, intervene, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, meddle, merge, mingle, mix, mix in, pick at, pick over, poke one's nose into, put one's nose into, put one's oar in, slip in, step in, strike in, take up, tamper, thicken, thrust one's nose in, thrust one's nose into, thrust oneself in, welter, whirl), birleÅŸmek (affiliate, agree, ally, ally oneself, amalgamate, associate oneself, band together, be made one, coalesce, combine, confederate, congregate, conjoin, conjugate, converge, couple, fasten, federate, fuze, gang, incorporate, inosculate, join, knit, knit up, link, make one, merge, reunite, unite, weld). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "meld": melded, melder, melders, melding, melds. (additional references) | |
Words containing "meld": romeldale, romeldales. (additional references) | |
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"Meld" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ameld, eld, ield, leld, Madl, mald, Mealda, medd, medlo, meel, mehl, mel, mela, meldy, mele, meled, melf, melg, meli, Melk, mell, meln, Mels, Mely, Melyd, melz, meod, mewd, mildi, mildr, Mjelde, mld, mle, moldo, muld, mu'lud, myel, neld, smeld, yeld, zeld. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "meld" (pronounced me"ld) |
| 4 | m e" l d | smelled. |
| 3 | -e" l d | celled, compelled, dispelled, dwelled, excelled, expelled, felled, fjeld, handheld, held, impelled, misspelled, propelled, quelled, rebelled, repelled, shelled, spelled, swelled, upheld, weld, withheld, yelled. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-l-m" | |
-1 letter: del, eld, elm, led, med, mel. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, el, em, me. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-l-m" | |
+1 letter: lamed, limed, medal, melds, model, muled. | |
+2 letters: almude, ambled, bedlam, beldam, blamed, blumed, calmed, culmed, damsel, delime, dermal, dimple, dolmen, filmed, flamed, flumed, glimed, helmed, lambed, lamedh, lameds, lammed, lamped, limbed, limned, limped, loamed, loomed, lumped, macled, mailed, malfed, malled, malted, marled, mauled, medals, meddle, medfly, medial, medlar, medley, melded, melder, melled, melody, meloid, melted, mewled, middle, midleg, milden, milder, mildew, milked, milled, milted, misled, mobled, models, module, moiled, molded, molder, molted, muddle, mulled, palmed, plumed, remold, seldom, slimed, smiled, wadmel. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 65 6C 64 |
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