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Melt vs Milt - What's the difference?

melt | milt |

As nouns the difference between melt and milt

is that melt is molten material, the product of melting while milt is the spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.

As verbs the difference between melt and milt

is that melt is to change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat while milt is to impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

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

    milt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
  • *, II.12:
    • we see that certaine apprehensions engender a blushing-red colour, others a palenesse; that some imagination doth only worke in the milt , another in the braine.
  • * 1983 , Robert Nye, The Facts of Life :
    • Adam Kadmon had pneumonia. Friar Goat cured it by tying a bullock’s milt to the soles of the lad’s feet, and burying the milt afterwards. Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.
  • Fish semen.

    • Derived terms

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    Related terms

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    Synonyms

    * (fish semen) soft roe, white roe

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.