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Melt can refer to:

• Melting, in physics, the process of heating a solid substance to a liquid
• Melt sandwich, a filled sandwich with melted cheese
• Melt (manufacturing), a term referring to the working material during steelmaking or thermoplastic forming

Music

• "Melt!", a 1982 song by Siouxsie & the Banshees
• "Melt" (Melanie C song), a song by Melanie C on her 2003 album Reason
• Melt (Straitjacket Fits album)
• Melt (album), an album by Rascall Flatts
• "Melt" is a nickname for the 1980 album Peter Gabriel
• "Melt," a popular song by Vocaloid Hatsune Miku
• Melt! festival, a three-day rock and electronic music festival in Germany

Software

• [MELT] a plugin for GCC providing a lispy Domain_Specific_Language to code compiler extensions.

See also

• All pages beginning with "Melt"
• All pages with titles containing "Melt"
• Smelt (disambiguation)

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Etymology

From Old English meltan.

Noun

melt (countable and uncountable; plural melts)

1. molten material, the product of melting.
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.
   • 2002, Tod Dimmick, Complete idiot's guide to 20-minute meals‎

     I recently asked a group of peope whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid. Everyone remembered a version of this dish.

Translations

Verb

to melt (third-person singular simple present melts, present participle melting, simple past melted or rarely molt, past participle melted or molten)

1. (transitive) To transit (or to change) the matter from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.

   I melted butter to make a cake.

2. (intransitive, ergative) To change gradually (or to become transited) from a solid state to a liquid state; to be melted

   The snowman will disappear; he will melt.

3. (intransitive, figuratively, colloquial) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.

   His troubles melted away.

4. (intransitive, colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.

   Help me! I'm melting!

Synonyms

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