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malt

noun
/mɒlt/UK/mɔlt/US/mɑlt/

Etymology

From Middle English malt, from Old English mealt, from Proto-West Germanic *malt, from Proto-Germanic *maltą (“malt”), from *maltaz (“soft; nesh; weak; squashy; melting”), from Proto-Indo-European *meld-, *mled- (“to crush; grind; make weak”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Moalt (“malt”), Dutch mout (“malt”), German Malz (“malt”), Swedish malt (“malt”), Old Church Slavonic младъ (mladŭ, “tender; young”), Russian молодой (molodoj, “young; fresh; new”). The Proto-Germanic noun was borrowed into Proto-Slavic as *malta; compare Ukrainian мо́лот (mólot), Czech mláto. More at melt.

  1. derived from *meld-✻
  2. derived from *maltą✻
  3. derived from *malt✻
  4. derived from mealt
  5. derived from malt

Definitions

  1. Malted grain (sprouted grain) (usually barley), used in brewing and otherwise.

  2. Malt liquor, especially malt whisky.

    • Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

  3. A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor.

    • Afterward she sat in the drugstore sucking malt through a straw.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Maltose-rich sugar derived from malted grain.

    2. To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and…

      To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain.

    3. To become malt.

    4. To drink malt liquor.

    5. Initialism of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue.

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Derived

ball of malt, double malt, malt dust, malt floor, malt-forward, malthouse, malt house, malting, malt-kiln, maltless, malt liquor, malt loaf, malt-o-meal, maltose, malt sauna, malt shop, malt sugar, malt tea, malt vinegar, malt whiskey, malty, rice malt, single malt, triple malt, maltase, malternative, maltery, maltin, maltitol, maltman, maltol, maltster, maltworm, maltable

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at malt. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at malt. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at malt

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA