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verb
1.
a past participle of melt.
adjective
2.
liquefied by heat; in a state of fusion; melted: molten lead.
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Molten
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Related forms
mol·ten·ly, adverb
su·per·mol·ten, adjective
un·mol·ten, adjective
Example Sentences
- They explode with boom, blast ash high into the air, and ooze molten hot lava.
- Until recently, no one understood much about how the molten lava rises up into the ridges.
- Molten salt is the real game changer for solar thermal because it allows for nighttime production.
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verb (used without object)
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 followed by away): His fortune slowly melted away.
4.
to pass, change, or blend gradually (often followed by into): Night melted into day.
5.
EXPANDto become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like: The tyrant's heart would not melt.
6.
COLLAPSEObsolete. to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc.
verb (used with object)
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.
noun
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.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English melten, Old English meltan (intransitive), m(i)elten (transitive) to melt, digest; cognate with Old Norse melta to digest, Greek méldein to melt
before 900; Middle English melten, Old English meltan (intransitive), m(i)elten (transitive) to melt, digest; cognate with Old Norse melta to digest, Greek méldein to melt
Related forms
melt·a·ble, adjective
melt·a·bil·i·ty, noun
melt·ing·ly, adverb
melt·ing·ness, noun
non·melt·a·ble, adjective
EXPANDnon·melt·ing, adjective
un·melt·a·ble, adjective
un·melt·ed, adjective
un·melt·ing, adjective
COLLAPSECan be confused: evanescence, evaporation, liquefaction, melting, thawing, transpiration, vaporization.
Synonyms
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 especially 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.
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 especially 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.
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World English Dictionary
| molten (ˈməʊltən) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | liquefied; melted: molten lead |
| 2. | made by having been melted: molten casts |
| —vb | |
| 3. | the past participle of melt |
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Word Origin & History
melt
O.E. meltan "become liquid" (class III strong verb; past tense mealt, pp. molten), from P.Gmc. *meltanan; fused with O.E. gemæltan (Anglian), gemyltan (W.Saxon) "make liquid," from P.Gmc. *gamaltijanan (cf. O.N. melta "to digest"), both from PIE *meld- "softness" (cf. Gk. meldein "to melt," L.
EXPAND mollis "soft, mild"). Related: Melted; melting. Melting pot is from 1540s; figurative use from 1855; popularized with reference to America by play "The Melting Pot" by Israel Zangwill (1908).
COLLAPSE
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American Heritage
Science Dictionary
melt  (mělt) Pronunciation Key
To change from a solid to a liquid state by heating or being heated with sufficient energy at the melting point. See also heat of fusion. |
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