What is the difference between profuse and melt?
profuse | melt |
In great quantity or abundance.
* Milton
(obsolete) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
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.
As verbs the difference between profuse and melt
is that profuse is (obsolete) to pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander while melt is (ergative) to change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.As a adjective profuse
is in great quantity or abundance.As a noun melt is
molten material, the product of melting .profuse
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She grew profuse amounts of zucchini and pumpkins.
- profuse''' hospitality; '''profuse''' apologies; '''profuse expenditure
- a green, shady bank, profuse of flowers
Verb
(profus)- (Chapman)
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 !