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Meaning of Melt | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2 Standard
mɛlt

Definitions

  1. Molten material, the product of melting.
    countable, uncountable
  2. Acronym of metrics, events, logs, and traces.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
  3. The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
    countable, uncountable
  4. The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
    countable, uncountable
  5. A melt sandwich.
    countable, uncountable
  6. Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.
    countable, uncountable
  7. A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
    countable, uncountable
  8. An idiot.
    UK, countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable
  9. 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
  10. Variant spelling of milt, the semen of a male fish, used as food.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

العربية أَذَابَ انصهر ذاب ذب صهر
Azərbaycanca ərimək əritmək
Български топя
Bosanski tat topi topić плавка
Čeština roztát tát tavenina tavit
Cymraeg toddi
Dansk smelte
Ελληνικά λιώνω τήκω
Esperanto fandi fandiĝi
Euskara urtu
Gaeilge leáigh
Gàidhlig leagh
Galego derreter fundir
ગુજરાતી ઓગળવું
עברית המס נמס
Hrvatski tat topi topić плавка
Magyar olvad olvaszt
Bahasa Indonesia cairan leleh lelehan
Íslenska bráðna bræða
日本語 溶かす 溶ける
ខ្មែរ រលាយ
한국어 녹다 녹이다
Kurdî tan tat tat
Lingála nyangola
Lietuvių tirpti
Latviešu kust
Bahasa Melayu cair lebur
Malti dewweb
Nederlands laten smelten smelten
Română topi
Shqip shkrij tret
Српски tat topi topić плавка
ไทย ละลาย
Tagalog tunawin
Türkçe erimek
Tiếng Việt nóng chảy tàn

Examples

“The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle.”
“Users can see how a glacier at the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania retreated between December 1986 and 2020, as well as glacial melt in Sermersooq, Greenland, between December 2000 and 2020.”
“I recently asked a group of people whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid. Everyone remembered a version of this dish.”
“Numerous samples of breccia and impact melts were recovered by drilling into the floor of the crater.”
“You are from Blackburn you fucking melt...have a bastard word with yourself.”
“Kiss it ya melt!”
“LOL! you fucking melt. Get a job.”
“Over the course of this chapter on 'Love Island Essentials' we'll be charting exactly who went with who, showing you around the villa, and equipping you with the vocabulary you'll need to avoid looking like a melt and get grafting like a true Islander.”
“Anyone who said different was a Tory, a melt or – worse – a Blairite. Centrists (mostly Labour voters) were the devil incarnate.”
“They developed their own lexicon, with Corbyn critics referred to as 'melts' or 'slugs' while their man was lauded as 'the absolute boy'.”
“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.”
“Another way to describe APM suites is that they are the monitoring technology that makes MELT data collection possible and useful for SREs.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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