meld

Blend of melt +‎ weld; alternatively, from English melled (“mingled; blended”), past participle of mell.

• IPA^(key): /mɛld/

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• Rhymes: -ɛld

meld (third-person singular simple present melds, present participle melding, simple past and past participle melded)

1. (US) to combine multiple similar objects into one.

   One can meld copper and zinc together to form brass.

   Much as America's motto celebrates melding many into one, South Africa's says that it doesn't matter what you look like — we can all be proud of our young country. - The New York Times, 26/02/2007

• conflate

• melt
• weld

Probably borrowed from Dutch or German melden (“to report, announce”). Compare cognate Middle English melden (“to call out, accuse”), from Old English meldian (“to declare, announce, tell”).

meld (third-person singular simple present melds, present participle melding, simple past and past participle melded)

1. In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.

meld (plural melds)

1. A combination of cards which is melded.

• “meld”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

meld

1. imperative of melde

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meld

1. first-person singular present indicative of melden
2. imperative of melden

meld

1. imperative of melde

From Old Norse meldr.

• melder m

meld m (definite singular melden, indefinite plural meldar, definite plural meldane)

1. grinding, crushing
2. an amount of grain that is to be milled
3. an amount of flour that returns from the mill

• mala, male (to grind, crush)
• mjøl n

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

meld (neuter singular meldt, definite singular and plural melde)

1. past participle of melde

meld

1. imperative of melda and melde

• “meld” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.