melt

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Molten material, the product of melting. countable,uncountable
    — The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle.
  2. The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state. countable,uncountable
  3. The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions. countable,uncountable
  4. A melt sandwich. countable,uncountable
    — I recently asked a group of people whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid. Everyone remembered a version of this dish.
  5. Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified. countable,uncountable
    — 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. countable,uncountable
  7. A soft, soppy, or overly emotional person. UK,countable,derogatory,slang,uncountable
    — You are from Blackburn you fucking melt...have a bastard word with yourself.
  8. A centre-left or liberal person, when in opposition to a leftist; (especially) a critic of Jeremy Corbyn within the Labour Party. UK,countable,derogatory,slang,uncountable
    — Anyone who said different was a Tory, a melt or – worse – a Blairite. Centrists (mostly Labour voters) were the devil incarnate.
  9. Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food. countable,uncountable
    — A mass of herring melts, tinged with the streams of claret, had fallen into his hair, and this, added to his temporary stupor, had led to the Doctor's mistake.
动词 v.
  1. To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. ergative
    — I melted butter to make a cake.
  2. To dissolve, disperse, vanish. figuratively,intransitive
    — His troubles melted away.
  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. ambitransitive,figuratively
    — Thou would'st have […] melted down thy youth.
  4. To be discouraged. intransitive
  5. To be emotionally softened or touched. figuratively,intransitive
    — She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.
  6. To be very hot and sweat profusely. colloquial,intransitive
    — I need shade! I'm melting!

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
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相关词
smelt

词源

词源 1
From Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).
词源 2
From Middle English melten, from a merger of Old English meltan (intransitive) and mieltan (transitive), both meaning “to melt, digest,” from Proto-West Germanic *meltan and *maltijan, from Proto-Germanic *meltaną and *maltijaną, both from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“melt”). Cognate with Icelandic melta (“to digest”).
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