Join the masses who listen to A Way With Words, the call-in radio show and podcast about words and language.
Catchword for “summer melt”
Catchword: summer melt
Filed under: , ,
Part of speech: n.
The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.
Quotation: Because of overcrowding problems in previous years, the college reduced the number of offers of admission from 3,486 in 2003 to 3,366 this year. However, this year the college’s admissions office experienced an unexpected low “summer melt” of just 26 students. The summer melt refers to the number of students who initially enroll at William and Mary after being admitted and later decide to attend a different college or university. In 2003, the summer melt was 57 students. Two years ago, it was 43 students.
Article or document title:
“W&M makes space for crowded Class of 2008” (URL)
Author:
Brian Whitson
Article, document, publication, web site:
William & Mary News
Publishing location:
Williamsburg, Virginia
Date of publication:
Aug. 17, 2004
This cite belongs to a full entry for summer melt.
Posted 10 Jul 06 | Permalink | Tell a Friend

Leave a comment, which must be approved by the moderator before it will appear. Courtesy matters!

Keep in mind that we're interested in terms that are not well-covered in mainstream dictionaries, or not covered at all. A mass of unexamined Google hits counts for nothing, but an early use of the term you've found in a book or periodical is very useful. A term does not have to be new to be recorded here, it merely needs to be worthy of more attention.
Name (mandatory):

Email (mandatory):

Location (optional):

Your Web Site (optional):

Remember my personal information

Notify me, by email, of follow-up comments.

Recent Catchwords
momshell n. (7/3)
porn mode n. (7/3)
downwinder n. (7/3)
tele-town-hall n. (7/3)
flame-o-gram n. (7/3)
Twinjury n. (7/2)
adulticiding n. (7/2)
bubble capital n. (7/2)
Iran-geles n. (7/2)
brown town n. (7/2)
boner dyke n. (7/2)
one and done n. (7/2)
social papers n.pl. (7/2)
stationery wardrobe n. (7/2)
cap-and-traitor n. (7/1)
freeway flyer n. (6/22)
Office 2.0 n. (6/22)
Zipcar capitalism n. (6/22)
adultism n. (6/22)
Jamrocks n. (6/22)
 More catchwords...
Lexicographer's Rules
Call of nature (7/1)
Feedburner URLs that have huge accidental traffic (6/16)
I held Samuel Johnson’s 1755 dictionary in my hands (6/9)
New: doors are open for Wordnik.com, a dictionary that aims to show all the words (6/8)
Boohoo, wah, & diddums: words of fake sympathy (6/3)
My book is now available at no cost as an e-book download (5/25)
Jitterbug thug and dance (5/20)
The Fantods and the Cold Robbies (5/5)
A Conversation with Roy Blount Jr. (4/29)
Putting In A Good Word: rating words’ chances for success (4/27)
 More blog entries...
Find A Word  »
 A   B   C   D   E 
 F   G   H   I   J 
 K   L   M   N   O 
 P   Q   R   S   T 
 U   V   W   X   Y 
 Z   0-9 
Search
Search Site

Google Site Search
Recent searches: bite… bust… 3… hot shell conditions…
New Comments
Featherwood0973 commented on featherwood (6/30)
garyvh commented on rexing (6/28)
JR commented on jam track (6/21)
ElasticMind commented on innerpreneur (6/20)
GlennT commented on fourwall (5/31)
RevRayGreen commented on medible (5/25)
OKSoldiers commented on Mortarville (5/21)
Lew Hollerbach commented on eyebrow window (4/24)
Ollie commented on rexing (4/22)
BeCareful commented on mouth-breather (4/22)
BeCareful commented on mouth-breather (4/21)
Ollie commented on rexing (4/21)
Jwalton commented on gonch (4/20)
Debride commented on gonch (4/20)
Jwalton commented on gonch (4/19)
Subscribe to the RSS feed. • Subscribe to the mailing list. • Browse the archive. • Add to Technorati Favorites. • © 1999-2009 by Grant Barrett, Double-Tongued Dictionary, New York City.