meltverb/mɛlt/

• 1

  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.
• 2

  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.
• 3

  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.
  • For pity melts the mind to love.
• 4

  To be discouraged.

• 5

  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.
• 6

  To be very hot and sweat profusely.

  • I need shade! I'm melting!

meltnoun/mɛlt/

• 1

  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.
  • 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.
• 2

  The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.

• 3

  The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.

• 4

  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.
• 5

  geographygeologynatural-sciencesRock 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.
• 6

  A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.

• 7

  derogatoryslangA soft, soppy, or overly emotional person.

  • You are from Blackburn you fucking melt...have a bastard word with yourself.
  • Kiss it ya melt!
• 8

  derogatoryslanggovernmentpoliticsA 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.
  • They developed their own lexicon, with Corbyn critics referred to as 'melts' or 'slugs' while their man was lauded as 'the absolute boy'.

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