meld

UK/mɛld/US/mɛld/

verbC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,499 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: melding, melds, melded

To meld is to blend two things into one. Meld the flavours, melded together, meld the two teams.

It suggests the parts stop being separate, which is what makes it stronger than mix and gentler than merge. It is a modern word and probably a blend itself, of melt and weld — which would make it an example of exactly what it describes. In card games, to meld is to lay down a combination.

Definitions of meld

1verbmeldTo blend two things into one.C1
“The chef melds Japanese and French cooking in surprising ways.”

meld is a blending.

Where it comes from

The verb is probably derived:

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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meld in the wild

Players score points by trick-taking and by forming combinations of characters into melds.
Pinochle
Each hand is played in three phases: bidding, melds, and tricks.
Pinochle
Players attempt to make melds of seven cards of the same rank and "go out" by playing all cards in their hands.
Canasta
The distinctive feature of 500 rum is that each player scores the value of the sets or cards they meld.
500 rum
In card games, a meld is a set of matching cards, typically three or more, that earn a player points and/or allow them to deplete their hand.
Meld (cards)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

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