melt vs strike a chord

melt

verb
  • To be emotionally softened or touched. 

  • To be discouraged. 

  • 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. 

strike a chord

verb
  • To convey a feeling or meaning which someone personally internalizes and takes to heart. 

  • To elicit a significant reaction, especially one which is favorable or sympathetic. 

How often have the words melt and strike a chord occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )