Melting

Definition

melt /melt / v ၁။ အရည္ေပ်ာ္သည္။ The ice melted in the sun. ❍ melted wax ❍ The hot sun soon melted the ice. ❍ fry mushrooms in melted butter. ၂။ အရည္ေပ်ာ္သည္။ a sweet that melts in the mouth. ❍ WATER n ၃။ ေပ်ာင္းၫြတ္သည္။ ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာင္းသြားသည္။ [ ဥ ] အရည္ေပ်ာ္သည္။ a smile that melted his heart ❍ Her anger quickly melted (ie disappeared). ❍ As soon as I saw her my heart melted. ❏ go into/ be in the melting-pot [ IDM ] ေျပာင္းလဲမည့္ အေျခဆိုက္သည္ (သို႔) ေျပာင္းလဲစ ျပဳသည္။ The fate of the islands is now in the melting- pot. ❏ melt (sth) away [ PHRV ] ေပ်ာက္ကြယ္သြားသည္။ The sun has melted the snow away. ❍ ( fig ) When the police arrived the crowd quickly melted away. ရဲမ်ားေရာက္လာ ေသာအခါ လူအုပ္ႀကီးမွာ ၾကက္ေပ်ာက္ငွက္ေပ်ာက္ ေပ်ာက္သြား သည္။ ❏ melt sth down [ PHRV ] ေရ၌က်ဳိသည္။ Many of the gold ornaments were melted down to be made into coins. ❏ melting adj ခ်စ္ခ်င္စဖြယ္။ သနားခ်င့္စဖြယ္။ a melting voice ❍ his melting charm. ❏ melting- point n [U,C] အရည္ေပ်ာ္မွတ္။ Lead has a lower melting- point than iron. ❏ melting- pot n (usu sing ) သဗၺရနံေပါင္း ေရာက်ဳိရာ။ the vast melting-pot of American society. ❏ melt into sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ စိမ့္ဝင္ ေရာယွက္သြားသည္။ One colour melted into another as the sun set. ၂။ ခ်င္းနင္းေပ်ာက္ကြယ္သြားသည္။ The ship melted into the darkness.

Examples

1. Melt the butter in a small saucepan.
2. Climate change is causing the polar ice cap to melt.
3. My fears melted when I saw his kind expression.
4. [melt into] : He seemed to melt into the darkness.
5. [melt someone’s heart] : She gave him a smile that melted his heart.
6. All she has to do is smile at him and he just melts.
7. [melt into] : The reds and golds melted into each other as the sun sank.