Definition of Melt

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Definition of Melt

Melt

See 2d Milt.

To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.

Hence: 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.

To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.

To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.

Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.

To lose distinct form or outline; to blend.

To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.

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Melt Quotations

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
Saint Teresa

To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Susan Sontag

Do you think when two representatives holding diametrically opposing views get together and shake hands, the contradictions between our systems will simply melt away? What kind of a daydream is that?
Nikita Khrushchev

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Homer

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Swett Marden

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
Gustave Flaubert

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Denis Diderot

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Walter Scott

It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
Andy Goldsworthy

Melt Translations

melt in Danish is smelte
melt in Dutch is wegsmelten, dooien, ontdooien
melt in Finnish is sulattaa
melt in German is schmelzen
melt in Italian is sciogliere, fusione
melt in Latin is fervefacio, fundo
melt in Portuguese is derretimento

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