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Melt also means "covered in slime or liquid"? English is not my first language.

• epmatsw 9y ago
  Not that I've ever heard. This is just a weird headline.
• inopinatus 9y ago
  Not generally, no, although I am reminded of a style of melted-cheese-coated sandwiches called "melts".
  • orclev 9y ago
    In that context it's the cheese that's being melted, not the sandwich. Melting implies some kind of state change from solid to liquid (or semi-liquid), which is in fact the case in a melt sandwich where the cheese is melting. In this case the slime was already in a liquid state so there's no change taking place and it would therefore be incorrect to refer to it as melting. It DOES look kind of like the car was melted because of the accident damage combined with being covered in slime, which is I guess what the title is alluding to.
    • inopinatus 9y ago
      Nothing is so small that Hacker News cannot overthink it, not even a cheese sandwich.
• pkamb 9y ago
  The crashed car in the picture looks like it was melted by slime.