'Melting' definitions:
Definition of 'melting'
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Definition of 'Melting'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Melting'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- For pity melts the mind to love. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To liquefy; fuse; thaw; mollify; soften. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Melting'
From: GCIDE
- Melting \Melt"ing\, n. Liquefaction; the act of causing (something) to melt, or the process of becoming melted. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'melting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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