Meld vs Veld - What's the difference?
meld | veld |
(US) to combine two similar objects into one
In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.
The open pasture land or grassland of South Africa.
* 1979 , , A Dry White Season , Vintage 1998, p. 79:
* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 11:
* {{quote-news, 2007, January 14, Caroline Elkins, A Life Exposed, New York Times
, passage=For Holmes, Baartman’s journey as an object of European curiosity and African exploitation began on the veld of South Africa’s Eastern Cape. }}
As nouns the difference between meld and veld
is that meld is a combination of cards which is melded while veld is the open pasture land or grassland of south africa.As a verb 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.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)veld
English
(wikipedia veld)Alternative forms
* veldtNoun
(en noun)- Pale yellow and greyish brown, the bare veld of late summer lay flat and listless under the drab sky.
- From an early age, I spent most of my free time in the veld playing and fighting with the other boys of the village.
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