Melt vs. Fusion

Molten material, the product of melting.

The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.

The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.

A melt sandwich.

A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.

an idiot.

Example: ‘The capital of France is Berlin.’; ‘Shut up you melt!’;

(ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.

Example: ‘I melted butter to make a cake.’; ‘When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.’;

To dissolve, disperse, vanish.

Example: ‘His troubles melted away.’;

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.

To be emotionally softened or touched.

Example: ‘She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.’;

To be very hot and sweat profusely.

Example: ‘Help me! I'm melting!’;

See 2d Milt.

To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.

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.

Example: ‘Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth.’; ‘For pity melts the mind to love.’;

To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.

To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.

To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.

Example: ‘My soul melteth for heaviness.’; ‘Melting with tenderness and kind compassion.’;

To lose distinct form or outline; to blend. See fondue.

Example: ‘The soft, green, rounded hills, with their flowing outlines, overlapping and melting into each other.’;

To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.

the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid;

Example: ‘the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster’; ‘the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours’;

reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating;

Example: ‘melt butter’; ‘melt down gold’; ‘The wax melted in the sun’;

become or cause to become soft or liquid;

Example: ‘The sun melted the ice’; ‘the ice thawed’; ‘the ice cream melted’; ‘The heat melted the wax’; ‘The giant iceberg dissolved over the years during the global warming phase’; ‘dethaw the meat’;

become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial;

Example: ‘With age, he mellowed’;

lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually;

Example: ‘Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene’;

become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly;

Example: ‘The scene begins to fade’; ‘The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk’;

become less intense and fade away gradually;

Example: ‘her resistance melted under his charm’;

make or become liquefied by heat

Example: ‘the hot metal melted the wax’; ‘place under a hot grill until the cheese has melted’;

dissolve in liquid

Example: ‘add 400g sugar and boil until the sugar melts’;

(of a person) suffer extreme heat.

make or become more tender or loving

Example: ‘she was so beautiful that I melted’; ‘Richard gave her a smile that melted her heart’;

leave or disappear unobtrusively

Example: ‘the compromise was accepted and the opposition melted away’;

change or merge imperceptibly into (another form or state)

Example: ‘the cheers melted into gasps of admiration’;

an act or period of melting

Example: ‘the precipitation falls as snow and is released during the spring melt’;

metal or other material in a melted condition.

a quantity of metal melted in one operation.

a sandwich, hamburger, or other dish containing or topped with melted cheese

Example: ‘a tuna melt’;

The act of merging separate elements, or the result thereof.

(physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy.

(music) A style of music that blends disparate genres; especially types of jazz.

A style of cooking that combines ingredients and techniques from different countries or cultures

The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.

(genetics) The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.

(cytology) The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure.

(fiction) The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself.

(nonstandard) to combine; to fuse

The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a state of fluidity or flowing in consequence of heat; as, metals in fusion.

The union or blending together of things, as, melted together.

Example: ‘The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs . . . had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds.’;

The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues.

an occurrence that involves the production of a union

a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy

the state of being combined into one body

the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words

the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept

correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization

the act of fusing (or melting) together