Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)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.

    mälzen

    convert grain into malt

  2. (intransitive)To become malt.

    turn into malt, become malt

  3. (dated, humorous, intransitive)To drink malt liquor.

    convert into malt

Examples

5 sentences

  1. Beer is brewed from malt.

    ruПиво варится из солода. — Balamax

    deBier wird aus Malz gebraut. — xtofu80

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  2. The rat the cat the dog chased killed ate the malt.

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  3. I guess malt vinegar is more common than white vinegar on fries.

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  4. Beer is taxed according to its malt content, so low-malt beer is cheaper.

    deDa Bier nach seinem Malzgehalt versteuert wird, ist Bier mit niedrigem Malzgehalt billiger. — xtofu80

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  5. These gatherings always get rowdy after hours, when the boss breaks out the single-malt scotch.

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Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to convert grain into malt:

Origin

From Middle English malt, from Old English mealt, from Proto-West Germanic *malt, from Pro

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”).

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Forms

malts, malting, malted, malted
Base formmalt · to malt
3rd person singularmalts
Present participlemalting
Past simplemalted
Past participlemalted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymalt
he, she, itmalts

Past simpleLesson

all personsmalted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave malted
he, she, ithas malted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill malt

Word family

10 related words
Derivedmaltasemalternativemalterymaltinmaltitolmaltmanmaltolmaltstermaltwormmaltable

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
malmmalnourishedmalnutritionmalpracticemaltreatmalwaremamaB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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