Meld vs Eld - What's the difference?
meld | eld |
(US) to combine two similar objects into one
In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.
(rare, or, dialectal) One's age, age in years, period of life.
* 1868 , John Eadie, A Biblical cyclopædia :
* 1913 , Paulist Fathers, Catholic world :
(archaic, or, poetic) Old age, senility; an old person.
* 1912', Herbert Van Allen Ferguson, ''Rhymes of '''eld :
* 1912 , Arthur S. Way, translating Euripides, Medea , Heinemann 1946, p. 329:
* 1904 , , The Sun's Shame , II, lines 1-3
(archaic, or, poetic) Time; an age, an indefinitely long period of time.
(archaic, or, poetic) Former ages, antiquity, olden times.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 38:
(obsolete) Old.
(intransitive, archaic, poetic, or, dialectal) To age, become or grow old.
(intransitive, archaic, or, poetic) To delay; linger.
(transitive, archaic, or, poetic) To make old, age.
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As verbs the difference between meld and eld
is that meld is (us) to combine two similar objects into one or meld can be in card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards while eld is (intransitive|archaic|poetic|or|dialectal) to age, become or grow old.As nouns the difference between meld and eld
is that meld is a combination of cards which is melded while eld is (rare|or|dialectal) one's age, age in years, period of life.As an adjective eld is
(obsolete) old.meld
English
Etymology 1
Possibly a portmanteau of “melt” and “weld”; alternatively, from English “melled” (“blended”), from (etyl) meller (“to mix”).Verb
(en verb)- One can meld copper and zinc together to form brass.
- Much as America's motto celebrates melding many into one, South Africa's says that it doesn't matter what you look like — we can all be proud of our young country. - The New York Times, 26/02/2007 [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/world/africa/27safrica.html?_r=1&oref=login]
Synonyms
* conflateEtymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)eld
English
Alternative forms
* * (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)Noun
(en-noun)- The experience of many years gave old men peculiar qualification for various offices; and elders, or men of a ripe or advanced eld or age, were variously employed under the Mosaic law.
- Promptly appeared a paragon, aged twenty-five or thereabouts, and exhibiting all the steadiness and serenity of advanced eld .
- The withered limbs of eld , the thin, gray hair [...]
- the alien wife / No crown of honour was as eld drew on.
- ''As some true chief of men, bowed down with stress
- ''Of life's disastrous eld , on blossoming youth
- ''May gaze, and murmur with self-pity and ruth, -
- Once adown the dewy way a youthful cavalier spurred with a maiden mounted behind him, swiftly passing out of sight, recalling to the imagination some romance of eld , when the damosel fled with her lover.
