| 单词 | melt |
| 释义 | melt melt1 —meltable, adj. —meltability, n. —meltingly, adv. —meltingness, n. /melt/, v. , melted, melted or molten, melting, n. v.i. 1. to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal. 2. to become liquid; dissolve: Let the cough drop melt in your mouth. 3. to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually (often fol. by away): His fortune slowly melted away. 4. to pass, change, or blend gradually (often fol. by into): Night melted into day. 5. to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like: The tyrant's heart would not melt. 6. Obs. to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc. v.t. 7. to reduce to a liquid state by warmth or heat; fuse: Fire melts ice. 8. to cause to pass away or fade. 9. to cause to pass, change, or blend gradually. 10. to soften in feeling, as a person or the heart. n. 11. the act or process of melting; state of being melted. 12. something that is melted. 13. a quantity melted at one time. 14. a sandwich or other dish topped with melted cheese: a tuna melt. [bef. 900; ME melten, OE meltan (intrans.), m(i)elten (transit.) to melt, digest; c. ON melta to digest, Gk méldein to melt] Syn. 1. 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. DISSOLVE, though sometimes used interchangeably with MELT, applies to a different process, depending upon the fact that certain solids, placed in certain liquids, distribute their particles throughout the liquids: A greater number of solids can be dissolved in water and in alcohol than in any other liquids. TO FUSE is to subject a solid (usually a metal) to a very high temperature; it applies esp. to melting or blending metals together: Bell metal is made by fusing copper and tin. TO THAW is to restore a frozen substance to its normal (liquid, semiliquid, or more soft and pliable) state by raising its temperature above the freezing point: Sunshine will thaw ice in a lake. 4. dwindle. 10. gentle, mollify, relax. melt2 /melt/, n. the spleen, esp. that of a cow, pig, etc. Also, milt. [1575-85; var. of MILT] |
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