[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/melt/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [M](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/m/) / melt # melt verb (melt, melts, melted, melting) «melt» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. To melt is to change from a solid into a liquid because of heat: ice melts into water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melt/#m1) 2. To melt can mean to soften or disappear slowly: «The crowd melted away». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melt/#m2) 3. To melt someone's heart is to make them feel loving and kind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melt/#m3) ### In the lessons In science, melting is a change of state: a solid gets warm enough to become a liquid; the temperature where this happens is its melting point (ice melts at 0 °C). Melting can be reversed by cooling (freezing). In cooking, butter and chocolate melt. In stories, «her heart melted» means she became kind. Phrases: «melt away», «melt in your mouth», «melting pot». ### Examples - The snowman melted in the sun. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melt/#x1) - Ice melts at zero degrees Celsius. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melt/#x2) - Melt the butter in a pan. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melt/#x3) - My ice cream is melting — eat it fast! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melt/#x4) - Chocolate melts in your hand. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melt/#x5) - The puppy's big eyes melted her heart. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melt/#x6) - Melting ice at the poles makes sea levels rise. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melt/#x7) - Wax melts when the candle burns. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melt/#x8) - Crediting them with a nobler feeling Wendy melted. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melt/#x9) ### Note Melting is not the same as dissolving: sugar dissolves in water (mixes in), ice melts (turns liquid from heat). The opposite of melt is freeze or set. «Molten» is used for very hot melted rock or metal: molten lava. ## In Jewish tradition Melting is a picture for fear and losing courage, as when enemy peoples melt away. It is also used for the manna melting in the sun. **Interpretation.** Soldiers who were afraid were sent home so that their fear would not spread to others. The melting manna taught that each day's food had to be gathered early. ### Examples - And they gathered it morning by morning, every man according to his eating; and as the sun waxed hot, it melted. (Torah EXO.16.21, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/melt/#x1) - Then were the chiefs of Edom affrighted; the mighty men of Moab, trembling taketh hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan are melted away. (Torah EXO.15.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/melt/#x2) - And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say: 'What man is there that is fearful and faint-hearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart melt as his heart.' (Torah DEU.20.8, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/melt/#x3) - Therefore shall all hands be slack, and every heart of man shall melt. (Prophets ISA.13.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/melt/#x4) - Nations were in tumult, kingdoms were moved; He uttered His voice, the earth melted. (Writings PSA.46.7, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/melt/#x5) - They mounted up to the heaven, they went down to the deeps; their soul melted away because of trouble; (Writings PSA.107.26, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/melt/#x6) ### Note Melting is not the same as dissolving: sugar dissolves in water (mixes in), ice melts (turns liquid from heat). The opposite of melt is freeze or set. «Molten» is used for very hot melted rock or metal: molten lava. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «melt» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melt/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«melt» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/melt.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «melt» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/melt/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«melt» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/melt.html) on Mova free.