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Antonyms for meld

Grammar : Verb
Spell : meld
Phonetic Transcription : mɛld

Definition of meld

Origin :
  • "to blend together, merge, unite" (intransitive), by 1910, of uncertain origin. OED suggests "perh. a blend of MELT v.1 and WELD v." Said elsewhere to be a verb use of melled "mingled, blended," past participle of dialectal mell "to mingle, mix, combine, blend."
  • [T]he biplane grew smaller and smaller, the stacatto clatter of the motor became once more a drone which imperceptibly became melded with the waning murmur of country sounds .... ["Aircraft" magazine, October 1910]
  • But it is perhaps an image from card-playing, where the verb meld is attested by 1907 in a sense of "combine two cards for a score:"
  • Upon winning a trick, and before drawing from the stock, the player can "meld" certain combinations of cards. [rules for two-hand pinochle in "Hoyle's Games," 1907]
  • The rise of the general sense of the word in English coincides with the craze for canasta, in which melding figures. The card-playing sense is said to be "apparently" from German melden "make known, announce," from Old High German meldon, from Proto-Germanic *meldojan (cf. Old English meldian "to declare, tell, display, proclaim"), and the notion is of "declaring" the combination of cards. Related: Melded; melding.
  • verb blend, bring together
Example sentences :
  • When the cards were dealt, it fell the dog's turn to meld first.
  • Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Backers » by Burt L. Standish
  • He had been interrupted with a meld of a hundred and twenty.
  • Extract from : « Jimsy and the Monsters » by Walt Sheldon
  • I told you before lots of times, if you got the extra ten, get rid of your meld first.
  • Extract from : « Abe and Mawruss » by Montague Glass
  • An censes inveniri posse Lugdun, Meld, aut alibi in Galliis qui nos ad hc juvare velint.
  • Extract from : « History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume III » by J. H. Merle D'Aubign
  • When you look at the wall paper does your brain do a sort of loop-the-loop and cause you to meld 100 aces or double pinochle?
  • Extract from : « You Should Worry Says John Henry » by George V. Hobart
  • I fear my recollection may meld one or two visits that occurred in March.
  • Extract from : « Warren Commission (2 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

Synonyms for meld

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