meld
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (1)
Verb (3)melded, melding
- announce for a score; of cards in a card gameMore general announce, denote
- lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually“Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene”Synonyms: meltMore general blend, flux
- mix together different elements“The colors blend well”Synonyms: blendfluxmixconflatecommingleimmixfusecoalescecombinemergeMore general change integrityMore specific absorb, blend in, melt, admix, conjugate, gauge, alloy, accrete, syncretize
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: G. melden to announce.
Card games In the game of pinochle, to declare or announce for a score; as, to meld a sequence. [wns=1]
2. to mix together so that the components are indistinguishable. [wns=2] Syn. — blend, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, combine, merge.
Card games 1. Any combination or score which may be declared, or melded, in pinochle.
2. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to meld groups of seven of the same rank. Syn. — canasta, basket rummy.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement, WordNet 1.5
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
A concurrent, object-oriented, dataflow, modular and fault-tolerant language! MELD is comparable to SR.
["MELDing Multiple Granularities of Parallelism", G. Kaiser et al, ECOOP '89, pp. 147-166, Cambridge U Press 1989].
(1994-11-11)