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Melt vs Welt - What's the difference?

melt | welt |

As verbs the difference between melt and welt

is that melt is to be proper while welt is to cause to have welts, to beat.

As a noun welt is

a raised mark on the body caused by a blow; a wheal or weal.

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

    welt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A raised mark on the body caused by a blow; a wheal or weal.
  • (shoemaking) A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling.
  • A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
  • In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
  • In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
  • In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
  • (heraldry) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to have welts, to beat.
  • To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.