melting

5 definitions found

melting - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Melting \Melt"ing\, n.
     Liquefaction; the act of causing (something) to melt, or the
     process of becoming melted.
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     Melting point (Chem.), the degree of temperature at which a
        solid substance melts or fuses; as, the melting point of
        ice is 0[deg] Centigrade or 32[deg] Fahr., that of urea is
        132[deg] Centigrade. Pressure affects the melting point
        somewhat, and if not specified the melting point is
        usually taken to be at atmospheric pressure.
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  Melting \Melt"ing\ a.
     Causing to melt; becoming melted; -- used literally or
     figuratively; as, a melting heat; a melting appeal; a melting
     mood. -- Melt"ing*ly, adv.
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  Melt \Melt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Melted (obs.) p. p. Molten;
     p. pr. & vb. n. Melting.] [AS. meltan; akin to Gr.
     me`ldein, E. malt, and prob. to E. smelt, v. [root]108. Cf.
     Smelt, v., Malt, Milt the spleen.]
     1. To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to
        liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or
        snow.
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     2. Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to
        relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences;
        sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of;
        to weaken.
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              Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth.
                                                    --Shak.
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              For pity melts the mind to love.      --Dryden.
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     Syn: To liquefy; fuse; thaw; mollify; soften.
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melting - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  melting
      adj 1: becoming liquid [syn: liquescent, melting]
      n 1: the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to
           a liquid; "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt
           that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes
           several hours" [syn: thaw, melt, thawing, melting]

melting - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  102 Moby Thesaurus words for "melting":
     adoring, affectionate, blackout, bleeding, blocking, charitable,
     clement, colliquation, colliquative, commiserative, compassionate,
     condolent, conjugal, decoagulation, deliquescence, deliquium,
     dematerialization, demonstrative, departure, devoted,
     disappearance, disappearing, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution,
     dissolutional, dissolutive, dissolving, eclipse, elimination,
     erasure, evanescence, evanescent, evaporating, evaporation,
     extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, faithful, filial, fleeting,
     fluidification, fluidization, flying, fond, forbearant, fugitive,
     fusibility, fusing, fusion, gentle, going, human, humane,
     husbandly, languishing, leaching, lenient, liquation, liquefaction,
     liquefactive, liquefying, liquescence, liquescency, lixiviation,
     lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, maternal, merciful,
     occultation, parental, passing, paternal, percolation, pitying,
     romantic, running, ruthful, sentimental, soft, softhearted,
     solubilization, solution, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender,
     tenderhearted, thaw, thawing, thermoplasticity, transient,
     unclotting, understanding, uxorious, vanishing, vanishing point,
     warmhearted, wifely, wipe