MELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does meld mean? 

• MELD (noun)
  The noun MELD has 1 sense:

1. a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank

  Familiarity information: MELD used as a noun is very rare.

• MELD (verb)
  The verb MELD has 3 senses:

1. announce for a score; of cards in a card game

2. lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually

3. mix together different elements

  Familiarity information: MELD used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

basket rummy; canasta; meld

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

rum; rummy (a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards)

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

bolivia (a form of canasta in which sequences can be melded)

samba (a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers)

Derivation:

meld (announce for a score; of cards in a card game)

• MELD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they meld    ... he / she / it melds   
Past simple: melded   
Past participle: melded   
-ing form: melding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Announce for a score; of cards in a card game

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

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

announce; denote (make known; make an announcement)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

meld (a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

meld; melt

Context example:

Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene

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

blend; coalesce; combine; commingle; conflate; flux; fuse; immix; meld; merge; mix (mix together different elements)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Mix together different elements

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

blend; coalesce; combine; commingle; conflate; flux; fuse; immix; meld; merge; mix

Context example:

The colors blend well

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

change integrity (change in physical make-up)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "meld"):

gauge (mix in specific proportions)

absorb (cause to become one with)

meld; melt (lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually)

blend in; mix in (cause (something) to be mixed with (something else))

accrete (grow together (of plants and organs))

conjugate (unite chemically so that the product is easily broken down into the original compounds)

admix (mix or blend)

alloy (make an alloy of)

syncretise; syncretize (become fused)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

One popular theory is that such an object could arise when two comets – even two compositionally distinct comets – melded together under a low velocity collision during the Solar System's formation billions of years ago, when small building blocks of rocky and icy debris coalesced to eventually create planets.

(Rosetta Comet May Be a Contact Binary, NASA)