Melt
31Melt Up — A dramatic and unexpected improvement in the investment performance of an asset class driven partly by a stampede of investors who don t want to miss out on its rise rather than by fundamental improvements in the economy. Gains created by a melt… …
32melt — [OE] Melt goes back ultimately to an Indo European *meld , *mold , *mld , denoting ‘softness’, which also produced English mild and Latin mollis ‘soft’ (source of English mollify and mollusc). Its prehistoric Germanic descendant *melt , *malt… …
33melt — verb 1》 make or become liquefied by heating. ↘(melt something down) melt a metal article so as to reuse the raw material. ↘dissolve in liquid. 2》 (often melt away) disappear or disperse. ↘(melt into) change or merge imperceptibly into …
34melt — [OE] Melt goes back ultimately to an Indo European *meld , *mold , *mld , denoting ‘softness’, which also produced English mild and Latin mollis ‘soft’ (source of English mollify and mollusc). Its prehistoric Germanic descendant *melt , *malt… …
35melt — I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English meltan; akin to Old Norse melta to digest, Greek meldein to melt more at mollify Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to become altered from a solid to a liquid state usually by heat 2 …
36melt — See: BUTTER WOULDN T MELT IN ONE S MOUTH, MELT IN ONE S MOUTH …
37melt — See: BUTTER WOULDN T MELT IN ONE S MOUTH, MELT IN ONE S MOUTH …
38melt-up — n. The severe overheating of a market that causes prices to rise to unprecedented levels. Also: meltup. (cf. meltdown). Example Citation: You hear more or less serious arguments these days that earnings don t count, that interest rates are… …
39melt — verb Melt is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑butter, ↑chocolate, ↑frost, ↑hail, ↑heart, ↑ice, ↑ice cream, ↑snow, ↑snowflake, ↑worry Melt is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ …
40melt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. disappear, vanish; fuse, thaw, dissolve, soften; dwindle; blend. See pity, disappearance, liquefaction. Ant., freeze, solidify. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To liquefy] Syn. dissolve, liquefy, thaw,… …
