Difference between Mellow and Melt

What is the difference between Mellow and Melt?

Mellow as a noun is a relaxed mood. while Melt as a noun is molten material, the product of melting.

Mellow

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A relaxed mood.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To become mellow. To relax or soften.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple. Easily worked or penetrated; not hard or rigid; as, a mellow soil. Not coarse, rough, or harsh; subdued, soft, rich, delicate; -- said of sound, color, flavor, style, etc. Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial. Relaxed; calm; easygoing; laid-back. Warmed by liquor, slightly intoxicated; or, stoned, high.

Example sentence: My personal tastes... I actually like quite a bit acoustic and more mellow kinds of things. I quite like American music, like The Fray, I'm a massive fan of them, and The Killers.

Melt

Part of speech: noun

Definition: molten material, the product of melting.The transition of matter from a solid state to a liquid stateThe springtime snow runoff in mountain regions.A melt sandwich.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To transit (or to change) the matter from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.To change gradually (or to become transited) from a solid state to a liquid state; to be meltedTo dissolve, disperse, vanish.To be very hot and sweat profusely.

Example sentence: To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

We hope you now know whether to use Mellow or Melt in your sentence.

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