meld

pronunciation

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Noun:

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
Verb:

announce for a score; of cards in a card game
lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually
mix together different elements

Word Origin

meld (v.): "to blend together, merge, unite" (intransitive), by 1910, of uncertain origin. OED suggests "perh. a blend of MELT v.1 and WELD v." Said elsewhere to be a verb use of melled "mingled, blended," past participle of dialectal mell "to mingle, mix, combine, blend." [T]he biplane grew smaller and smaller, the stacatto clatter of the motor became once more a drone which imperceptibly became melded with the waning murmur of country sounds .... ["Aircraft" magazine, October 1910] But it is perhaps an image from card-playing, where the verb meld is attested by 1907 in a sense of "combine two cards for a score:" Upon winning a trick, and before drawing from the stock, the player can "meld" certain combinations of cards. [rules for two-hand pinochle in "Hoyle's Games," 1907] The rise of the general sense of the word in English coincides with the craze for canasta, in which melding figures. The card-playing sense is said to be "apparently" from German melden "make known, announce," from Old High German meldon, from Proto-Germanic *meldojan (source of Old English meldian "to declare, tell, display, proclaim"), and the notion is of "declaring" the combination of cards. Related: Melded; melding.

2. Conclusion serum vegf level and meld score have some clinical prognostic value in patients with dlc .

4. The innovation is the ruling party 's latest attempt to meld propaganda with the public relations techniques of the internet age .

5. A new study chalks it up to a sort of " mind meld " between participants .