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malt

/mɔlt/noun, verb1 syllable

Malt means: a milkshake made with malt powder.

Synonyms for malt3

noun, as in a milkshake made with malt powder

malted, malted milk

noun, as in a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer

malt liquor

What does malt mean?7

noun

1

a milkshake made with malt powder

2

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

3

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

verb

1

treat with malt or malt extract“malt beer”

2

turn into malt, become malt

3

convert grain into malt

4

convert into malt

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with malt?7

one syllable

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Malt in a sentence

  • Beer is taxed according to its malt content, so low-malt beer is cheaper.CM
  • The rat the cat the dog chased killed ate the malt.a_dernellis
  • I guess malt vinegar is more common than white vinegar on fries.shekitten
  • These gatherings always get rowdy after hours, when the boss breaks out the single-malt scotch.papabear

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of malt

as a noun

plural
malts

as a verb

past tense
malted
present participle
malting
third-person singular
malts
past participle
malted