thawing

3 definitions found

thawing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  thaw \thaw\ (th[add]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Thawed (th[add]d);
     p. pr. & vb. n. Thawing.] [AS. [thorn][=a]wian,
     [thorn][=a]wan; akin to D. dovijen, G. tauen, thauen (cf.
     also verdauen to digest, OHG. douwen, firdouwen), Icel.
     [thorn]eyja, Sw. t["o]a, Dan. t["o]e, and perhaps to Gr.
     th`kein to melt. [root]56.]
     1. To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of
        that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; -- said in
        reference to the weather, and used impersonally.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. Fig.: To grow gentle or genial. Compare cold[4], a. and
        hard[6], a.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

thawing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  thawing
      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]
      2: warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt; "they
         welcomed the spring thaw" [syn: thaw, thawing, warming]

thawing - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "thawing":
     colliquation, colliquative, decoagulation, deliquescence,
     deliquium, dissolution, dissolutional, dissolutive, dissolving,
     fluidification, fluidization, fusibility, fusing, fusion, leaching,
     liquation, liquefaction, liquefactive, liquefying, liquescence,
     liquescency, lixiviation, melting, percolation, running,
     solubilization, solution, thaw, thermoplasticity, unclotting