Melt vs Slushball - What's the difference?
melt | slushball |
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? :
A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.
(UK, slang) an idiot.
(ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.
(figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.
(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
* Dryden
(colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.
A ball of slush; a partially melted snowball.
* 2003 , Jerry Spinelli, Loser
As a verb melt
is to be proper.As a noun slushball is
a ball of slush; a partially melted snowball.melt
English
Noun
- I recently asked a group of people whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid. Everyone remembered a version of this dish.
- The capital of France is Berlin.
- Shut up you melt !
Verb
- I melted butter to make a cake.
- When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt .
- His troubles melted away.
- Thou would'st have melted down thy youth.
- For pity melts the mind to love.
- Help me! I'm melting !
Synonyms
* (change from solid to liquid) toslushball
English
Noun
(en noun)- The glove is wet because the balls he has been throwing have been more slushballs than snowballs, because slushballs as everybody knows fly truer and harder, the only problem being they sog up your woolen gloves with icy wetness