melt vs microwave

melt

verb
  • To be discouraged. 

  • To be emotionally softened or touched. 

  • To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. 

  • To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken. 

  • To dissolve, disperse, vanish. 

  • To be very hot and sweat profusely. 

noun
  • A melt sandwich. 

  • A wax-based substance for use in an oil burner as an alternative to mixing oils and water. 

  • The springtime snow runoff in mountain regions. 

  • Molten material, the product of melting. 

  • The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid state. 

  • Rock showing evidence of having been remelted after it originally solidified. 

  • An idiot. 

microwave

verb
  • To provide minimal preparation for implementation, deeming full or extensive preparation as unnecessary. 

  • To cook (something) in a microwave oven. 

noun
  • An electromagnetic wave with wavelength between that of infrared light and radio waves. 

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