melt
/mɛlt/
melt verb: to change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. Also the alternative spelling of milt.
Verb
melt (third-person singular simple present melts, present participle melting, simple past melted or (rare) molt, past participle melted or (rare) molt or molten)
- To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
- I melted butter to make a cake.
- When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.
- Synonyms:
- to found, to thaw
- To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
- His troubles melted away.
- I gave him a couple of Advil and, after a few minutes, urged him back onto the track. Over the next few laps his pained expression slowly melted, although he still shuffled with a slight limp.2008 October, Davy Rothbart, “How I caught up with dad”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 110
- To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.
- Thou would'st have […] melted down thy youth.c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
- For pity melts the mind to love.1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day
- To be discouraged.
- To be emotionally softened or touched.
- She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.
- My heart melted when I first heard the song.
- To be very hot and sweat profusely.
- I need shade! I'm melting!
Noun (1)
melt (countable and uncountable, plural melts)
- Molten material, the product of melting.
- The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle.2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition
- Users can see how a glacier at the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania retreated between December 1986 and 2020, as well as glacial melt in Sermersooq, Greenland, between December 2000 and 2020.2022 April 22, Toyin Owoseje, “Google marks Earth Day with doodle showing stark impacts of the climate crisis”, in CNN, archived from the original on 17 May 2022
- The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
- The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
- A melt sandwich.
- I recently asked a group of people whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid. Everyone remembered a version of this dish.2002, Tod Dimmick, Complete idiot's guide to 20-minute meals
- Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
- Numerous samples of breccia and impact melts were recovered by drilling into the floor of the crater.
- A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
- Synonyms:
- tart
- A soft, soppy, or overly emotional person.
- You are from Blackburn you fucking melt...have a bastard word with yourself.2003 June 10, Roo, “See the Quality !!!”, in alt.sports.soccer.everton (Usenet)
- Kiss it ya melt!2004 September 20, Diablos Rojos, “North South divide??”, in uk.sport.football.clubs.liverpool (Usenet)
- A centre-left or liberal person, when in opposition to a leftist; (especially) a critic of Jeremy Corbyn within the Labour Party.
- Anyone who said different was a Tory, a melt or – worse – a Blairite. Centrists (mostly Labour voters) were the devil incarnate.2019 December 17, Suzanne Moore, “Let Labour’s fightback begin with a woman as leader”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2020
- They developed their own lexicon, with Corbyn critics referred to as 'melts' or 'slugs' while their man was lauded as 'the absolute boy'.[2019 October 17, Asa Bennett, Romanifesto: Modern Lessons from Classical Politics, Biteback Publishing, →ISBN
Noun (2) capitalized: MELT
MELT (uncountable)
- Acronym of metrics, events, logs, and traces.
- Another way to describe APM suites is that they are the monitoring technology that makes MELT data collection possible and useful for SREs.2023, Jeremy Proffitt, Rod Anami, Becoming a Rockstar SRE: Electrify your site reliability engineering mindset to build reliable, resilient, and efficient systems, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 73
Also used as
melt is also the alternative spelling of milt.
melt meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
melt in Hindi
- पिघलाएँ, पिघलना, पिघलाएं
melt in Tamil
- intransitive: (of a solid) to become a liquid
- உருகு uruku
- transitive: to change something from a solid to a liquid
- உருக்கு urukku
melt in Marathi
- वितळणे, वितळा
melt in Urdu
- پگھلنا, پگھلاؤ, پگھلا دیں
More languagesFewer languages
- melt in Bengali
- গলে যাওয়া, গলানো
- melt in Telugu
- కరిగించు karigiñcu
- melt in Malayalam
- ഉരുകുക urukuka, ഉരുക്കുക urukkuka
- melt in Kannada
- ಕರಗಿಸಿ, ಕರಗುವುದು
- melt in Punjabi
- ਪਿਘਲਣਾ, ਪਿਘਲਾਓ
- melt in Gujarati
- ઓગળવું ogaḷvũ
- melt in Odia
- ତରଳନ୍ତୁ
- melt in Assamese
- গলা gola, গলোৱা golüa
- melt in Nepali
- पग्लिन्छ, पिघल्नुहोस्, पिघलो
- melt in Tagalog
- tunawin, matunaw, malusaw
- melt in Arabic
- ذَابَ ḏāba, انْصَهَرَ, أَذَابَ ʔaḏāba, صَهَرَ ṣahara
- melt in Malay
- cair, lebur
- melt in Persian
- گداختن godâxtan, پخسیدن paxsidan
- melt in Thai
- ละลาย lá-laai
- melt in Vietnamese
- tan, tan chảy, nóng chảy
Examples of melt in a sentence
- Other devices measure water flow in streams fed by melted ice.
- We’ll liquefy this rock by heating it in a furnace until it melts and flows out.
- Throw the scrap in the smelter so we can melt it down and reuse it.
Synonyms of melt
- to found
- to thaw
- tart
Forms of melt
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | melts |
| present participle | melting |
| past | melted |
| past participle | melted |
| past participle | molten |
| first-person singular past | molt |
| second-person singular past | molt |
| third-person singular past | molt |
| plural past | molt |
| past subjunctive | molt |
| past (rare) | molt |
| past participle (rare) | molt |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | meltest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | meltedst |
| third-person singular present (archaic) | melteth |
| Noun | |
| plural | melts |
Origin of melt
From Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).
Words formed from melt
- brain-melting
- butter wouldn't melt in someone's mouth
- chain-melted state
- face-melting
- formelt
- high-melting
- low-melting
- meld
- meltability
- meltable
- meltage
- melt away
- meltaway
- melt down
- melter
- melting moment
- melting pot
- melting-pot
- melt in the mouth
- melt into
- meltoff
- melt out
- meltproof
- melt someone's butter
- melt up
- melt-up
- meltwater
- melty
- overmelt
- premelt
- remelt
- unmelt
- zone melting
- deadmelt
- hotmelt
- hot melt adhesive
- hot melt glue
- icemelt
- impact melt
- melt pond
- melt-sick
- patty melt
- snowmelt
- snow melt
- spring melt
- summer melt
- tuna melt
- undermelt
Phrases with melt
Words that rhyme with melt
Questions about melt
- What does melt mean?
- Melt means to change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
- What is melt in Hindi?
- Melt in Hindi is पिघलाएँ, पिघलना, पिघलाएं. See Melt meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is melt?
- Melt can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce melt?
- Melt is pronounced /mɛlt/.
- What is the past tense of melt?
- The past tense of melt is melted.
Words near melt in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: melt (page history and authors); MELT (page history and authors); melt (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melt (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melt (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melt (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melt (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melt (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melt (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melt (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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