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What is the difference between dissolve and melt?

dissolve | melt |

Melt is a antonym of dissolve.

Melt is a synonym of dissolve.



As verbs the difference between dissolve and melt

is that dissolve is to terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding while melt is to change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.

As nouns the difference between dissolve and melt

is that dissolve is a film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next while melt is molten material, the product of melting.

dissolve

English

(dissolution)

Verb

(dissolv)
  • To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding
    • ''The ruling party or coalition sometimes dissolves parliament early when the polls are favorable, hoping to reconvene with a larger majority
  • To destroy, make disappear
  • To liquify, melt into a fluid
  • * Shakespeare
    • as if the world were all dissolved to tears
  • To be melted, changed into a fluid
  • (chemistry) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
  • (chemistry) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
  • To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Nothing can dissolve us.
  • To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
  • * Fairfax
    • Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.
  • * The Declaration of Independence
    • For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.
  • (legal) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
    • to dissolve an injunction
  • (cinematography) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
  • To resolve itself as by dissolution
  • (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
  • * Tennyson
    • dissolved the mystery
  • * Bible, Daniel v. 16
    • Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.
  • To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
  • * Dryden
    • Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie.

    Synonyms

    * melt * (cinematography) fade out

    Derived terms

    * dissolvable * dissolver

    Related terms

    * dissoluble * dissolute * dissolution * dissolvent

    Antonyms

    * (terminate a union of multiple members actively) establish, found

    See also

    * melt

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cinematography) A film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.

    • Synonyms

    * fade out

    melt

    English

    Noun

  • 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.
  • * 2002 , Tod Dimmick, Complete idiot's guide to 20-minute meals? :
    • I recently asked a group of people whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid. Everyone remembered a version of this dish.
  • A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
  • (UK, slang) an idiot.
    • The capital of France is Berlin.
    Shut up you melt !

    Verb

  • (ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
    • I melted butter to make a cake.
    When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt .
  • (figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
    • His troubles melted away.
  • (figurative) 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.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thou would'st have melted down thy youth.
  • * Dryden
    • For pity melts the mind to love.
  • (colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.
    • Help me! I'm melting !

    Synonyms

    * (change from solid to liquid) to