What is "meld"

meld \meld\, n. (Card Playing)

1. Any combination or score which may be declared, or melded, in pinochle.

2. A form of rummy using two decks and four jokers; jokers and dueces are wild; the object is to meld groups of seven of the same rank.

   Syn: canasta, basket rummy.

"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."\n\n[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] \n \nBut 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:"\n\nUpon 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]

Etymology 1 vb. (context US English) to combine two similar objects into one Etymology 2

n. A combination of cards which is melded. vb. In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards.

1. n. 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 [syn: canasta, basket rummy]

2. v. announce for a score; of cards in a card game

3. lose its distinct outline or shape; blend gradually; "Hundreds of actors were melting into the scene" [syn: melt]

4. mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, combine, merge]

MELD can refer to:

• Model for End-Stage Liver Disease, a prognostic model.
• A variant of the declarative language CycL.
• Molecular Energy-Level Diagram, a type of one-dimensional plot with a significant qualitative apect, used in chemical energetics.
• Movement for a Europe of Liberties and Democracy, a political party at European level.

See also Meld (disambiguation).

In card games, a meld is a set of matching cards, typically three or more, that earn a player points and/or allow him to deplete his hand. Melds typically come in sequences of ascending cards belonging to the same suit known as runs or sets/groups of cards of identical rank . Other ones may be marriage (e.g. K and Q) and bezique (Q and J).

Melding is typical in games of the Rummy family, such as Canasta and Gin. It is also used in other games such as mahjong. Melds are also made in some trick-taking games, such as Pinochle and Bezique.

__NOTOC__ "Meld" is the 32nd episode of Star Trek: Voyager, the 16th episode of the second season.

When Meld completed the British Fillies Triple Crown by defeating Nucleus in the 1955 St. Leger, she was only the fourth filly to do so in the 20th century. She was undefeated as a three-year-old (3YO) and was head of the 3YO Handicap.

Meld is the visual diff and merge tool of GNOME targeted at developers. It allows users to compare two or three files or directories visually, color-coding the different lines.

Meld allows to compare files, directories, and version controlled repositories. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and supports many version control systems including Git, Mercurial, Baazar, CVS and Subversion.

Meld is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). It supports OS X; however, due to dependencies, the installation takes more than 6 hours with MacPorts. A pre-built OS X bundle can be downloaded from here: https://github.com/yousseb/meld/releases