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MALT

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("malt" is a kind of...):

cereal; food grain; grain (foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "malt"):

wort (unfermented or fermenting malt)

Holonyms ("malt" is a substance of...):

malt; malt liquor (a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer)

Derivation:

malt (convert grain into malt)

malt (treat with malt or malt extract)

maltster (a maker of malt)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer

Synonyms:

malt; malt liquor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("malt" is a kind of...):

lager; lager beer (a general term for beer made with bottom fermenting yeast (usually by decoction mashing); originally it was brewed in March or April and matured until September)

Meronyms (substance of "malt"):

malt (a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling)

Derivation:

malt (convert into malt)

malt (turn into malt, become malt)

maltster (a maker of malt)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A milkshake made with malt powder

Synonyms:

malt; malted; malted milk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("malt" is a kind of...):

milk shake; milkshake; shake (frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream)

Derivation:

malt (treat with malt or malt extract)

maltster (a maker of malt)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Convert into malt

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "malt" is one way to...):

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Verb group:

malt (convert grain into malt)

malt (treat with malt or malt extract)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

malt (a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Convert grain into malt

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "malt" is one way to...):

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Verb group:

malt (convert into malt)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

malt (a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Turn into malt, become malt

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "malt" is one way to...):

convert (change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

malt (a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Treat with malt or malt extract

Example:

malt beer

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "malt" is one way to...):

process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)

Verb group:

malt (convert into malt)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

malt (a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling)

malt (a milkshake made with malt powder)

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