meld

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /mɛld/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɛld

The verb is probably derived:

• from a blend of melt +‎ weld;^[1] or
• from melled (“blended; mingled”), the past participle of mell.

The noun is derived from the verb.^[2]

Compare also melting pot.

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

1. (transitive) To combine (multiple things) together; to blend, to fuse. [from early 20th c.]

   Synonyms: conflate, merge

   One can meld copper and zinc together to form brass.

   • 2018 June 5, Michael Wines, “Song awakens injured pride of Afrikaners”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 February 2023:

     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.

   • 2025 May 3, Patricia Clarke, “You and me, we gonna live forever … as avatars, at least”, in The Observer‎^[2]:

     Users can upload an unlimited number of voice messages, text prompts, photographs and videos of themselves, and in return an algorithm melds together memories and media and spits out a “virtual you” – an avatar that can speak to loved ones on phone calls and through text messages “so that children, grandchildren and beyond can know what you’re really like”.

2. (intransitive) To combine, to blend, to fuse.

• melded (adjective)
• melder
• melding (noun)
• mindmeld

• meldometer (historical)
• melt
• weld

meld (plural melds)

1. (originally US) The result of multiple things being combined together; a blend. [from late 20th c.]

   Synonym: combination

• mind meld

The verb is probably borrowed from Dutch melden (“to announce; to let (someone) know, report; (specifically) to declare in a card game”),^[3] ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *melþōn (“to announce, declare; to inform”), and Proto-Indo-European *meldʰ- (“to ask; to pray; to speak”).

The noun is derived from the verb.^[4]

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

2. Especially in games of the rummy family: [from late 19th c.]
   1. (transitive) To announce or play (a combination of playing cards) and thus score points.
   2. (intransitive) To announce or play a combination of playing cards and thus score points.

meld (plural melds)

2. (card games) Especially in games of the rummy family: a combination of playing cards which is announced or played to score points. [from late 19th c.]
   • 1914 February, Sinclair Lewis, “He is Blown by the Whirlwind”, in Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 231:

     The realization that Istra was in the room made him forget most of his melds at pinochle; […]

• meld (cards) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• meld (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

meld

1. imperative of melde

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛlt

meld

1. inflection of melden:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• IPA^(key): /mɛlt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛlt
• Hyphenation: meld

meld

1. singular 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.