melt

verb6

1. •
   to become liquid because of heat, as ice or wax does, or to heat something solid so that it does this

   • I melted butter to make a cake.
   • When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt.
2. •
   To be discouraged.
3. •
   (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.

   • Thou would'st have […] melted down thy youth. — 1605
4. •
   (figurative) To be emotionally softened or touched.

   • She melted when she saw the romantic message in the Valentine's Day card.
   • My heart melted when I first heard the song.
5. •
   (figurative) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.

   • His troubles melted away.
6. •
   (informal) To be very hot and sweat profusely.

   • I need shade! I'm melting!

noun8

1. •
   The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state.
2. •
   A melt sandwich.

   • I recently asked a group of people whether they had eaten tuna melts as a kid. Everyone remembered a version of this dish. — 2002
3. •
   The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.
4. •
   Molten material, the product of melting.

   • The crust (a mere 1% of the Earth's volume) is made of lighter melt products from the mantle. — 2012
5. •
   Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified.

   • Numerous samples of breccia and impact melts were recovered by drilling into the floor of the crater.
6. •
   (slang, offensive) A soft, soppy, or overly emotional person.

   • You are from Blackburn you fucking melt...have a bastard word with yourself. — 2003
7. •
   (slang, disapproving) A centre-left or liberal person, when in opposition to a leftist; (especially) a critic of Jeremy Corbyn within the Labour Party.

   • Anyone who said different was a Tory, a melt or – worse – a Blairite. Centrists (mostly Labour voters) were the devil incarnate. — 2019
8. •
   A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water.

noun1

1. •
   Acronym of metrics, events, logs, and traces.

   • Another way to describe APM suites is that they are the monitoring technology that makes MELT data collection possible and useful for SREs. — 2023