Search results
- DictionaryMelt/melt/
verb
- 1. make or become liquefied by heat: "the hot metal melted the wax"
- 2. make or become more tender or loving: "Richard gave her a smile that melted her heart"
noun
- 1. an act or period of melting: "the precipitation falls as snow and is released during the spring melt"
The meaning of MELT is to become altered from a solid to a liquid state usually by heat. How to use melt in a sentence.
Melt, dissolve, fuse, thaw imply reducing a solid substance to a liquid state. To melt is to bring a solid to a liquid condition by the agency of heat: to melt butter.
MELT definition: 1. to turn from something solid into something soft or liquid, or to cause something to do this…. Learn more.
to turn from something solid into something soft or liquid, or to cause something to do this: The snow usually melts by mid March. Melt the chocolate slowly so that it doesn't burn. The meat's beautifully cooked - it melts in your mouth (= is so pleasantly soft that you do not need to chew it). Fewer examples.
1. (Chemistry) to liquefy (a solid) or (of a solid) to become liquefied, as a result of the action of heat. 2. to become or make liquid; dissolve: cakes that melt in the mouth. 3. ( often foll by away) to disappear; fade. 4. ( foll by down) to melt (metal scrap) for reuse.
Definition of melt verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definitions of melt. verb. reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating. “ melt butter”. “ melt down gold”. “The wax melted in the sun”. synonyms: melt down, run. bleed, run. be diffused.
When you melt a solid substance, it changes to a liquid because of being heated.
1. to liquefy (a solid) or (of a solid) to become liquefied, as a result of the action of heat. 2. to become or make liquid; dissolve. cakes that melt in the mouth. 3. (often foll by away) to disappear; fade. 4. (foll by down) to melt (metal scrap) for reuse.
MELT definition: 1. If something melts, it changes from a solid into a liquid because of heat and if you melt…. Learn more.
