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MALT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does malt mean? 

MALT (noun)
  The noun MALT has 3 senses:

1. a milkshake made with malt powderplay

2. a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beerplay

3. a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distillingplay

  Familiarity information: MALT used as a noun is uncommon.


MALT (verb)
  The verb MALT has 4 senses:

1. treat with malt or malt extractplay

2. turn into malt, become maltplay

3. convert grain into maltplay

4. convert into maltplay

  Familiarity information: MALT used as a verb is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


MALT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A milkshake made with malt powder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

malt; malted; malted milk

Hypernyms ("malt" is a kind of...):

milk shake; milkshake; shake (frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream)

Derivation:

malt (treat with malt or malt extract)

maltster (a maker of malt)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

malt; malt liquor

Hypernyms ("malt" is a kind of...):

lager; lager beer (a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September)

Meronyms (substance of "malt"):

malt (a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling)

Derivation:

malt (convert into malt)

malt (turn into malt, become malt)

maltster (a maker of malt)


Sense 3

Meaning:

A cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("malt" is a kind of...):

cereal; food grain; grain (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "malt"):

wort (unfermented or fermenting malt)

Holonyms ("malt" is a substance of...):

malt; malt liquor (a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer)

Derivation:

malt (convert grain into malt)

malt (treat with malt or malt extract)

maltster (a maker of malt)


MALT (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they malt  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it malts  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: malted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: malted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: malting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Treat with malt or malt extract

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

malt beer

Hypernyms (to "malt" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Verb group:

malt (convert into malt)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

malt (a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling)

malt (a milkshake made with malt powder)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Turn into malt, become malt

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "malt" is one way to...):

convert (change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

malt (a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer)


Sense 3

Meaning:

Convert grain into malt

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "malt" is one way to...):

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Verb group:

malt (convert into malt)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

malt (a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling)


Sense 4

Meaning:

Convert into malt

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "malt" is one way to...):

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Verb group:

malt (convert grain into malt)

malt (treat with malt or malt extract)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

malt (a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer)


 Context examples 


Perry tells me that Mr. Cole never touches malt liquor.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

There is filling of granges, hewing of wood, malting of grain, and herding of sheep as much as heart could wish, and I the only son.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An alcoholic beverage usually made from malted cereal grain (as barley), flavored with hops, and brewed by slow fermentation.

(Beer, NCI Thesaurus)



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