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Meld

Definitions: Meld

Meld

Noun

1. 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.

Verb

1. 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.
 


Specialty Definitions: Meld

DomainDefinitions

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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Specialty Definition: Meld

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In card games, a Meld is set of matching cards, typically three or more, that earn a player points and/or allows him to deplete his hand. Melds typically come in sequences of ascending cards belonging to the same suit (8♠ 9♠ 10♠) or groups of cards of identical rank (8♠ 8♣ 8♥).

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."

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Synonyms: Meld

Synonyms: 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)

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Crosswords: Meld

English words defined with "meld": basket rummycanastarum, rummy. (references)
Specialty definitions using "meld": binomial heapconfluently persistent data structureFibonnaci heapMELDCVulcan 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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Modern Usage: Meld

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'll have to, like, meld with the meal. (Tiny Toon Adventures; writing credit: Charles Adler; Pat Allee)

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Commercial Usage: Meld

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

  • Mind Meld - Secrets Behind the Voyage of a Lifetime (reference)

  • Star Trek - Voyager, Episode 33: Meld (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Meld

SubjectTopicQuote

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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Usage Frequency: Meld

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)71.43%5157,705
Noun (singular)28.57%2245,945
                    Total100.00%7N/A

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Meld

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  meld

21

  meld score

19

  vulcan mind meld

4

  mind meld

4

  calculator meld

3

  mayo meld

2
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Modern Translations: Meld

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

   

Portuguese

  

molde de vazamento (discharge mould, spout meld), molde de descarga (discharge mould, spout meld). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

объÑвлÑть (announce, annunciate, declare, declaring, enunciate, give out, notify, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

promešati karte. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desmoldeo (discharge mould, spout meld). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

canasta (canasta). (various references)

   

Thai

  

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)

   

Turkish

  

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), birleşmek (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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Meld

Derivations

Words beginning with "meld": melded, melder, melders, melding, melds. (additional references)

Words containing "meld": romeldale, romeldales. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Meld"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "meld" (pronounced me"ld)
4m e" l dsmelled.
3-e" l dcelled, 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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Anagrams: Meld

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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Alternative Orthography: Meld


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 65 6C 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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