melting
English
editPronunciation
editVerb
editmelting
- present participle and gerund of melt
Adjective
editmelting (comparative more melting, superlative most melting)
- Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
- Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
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- That causes one to melt with emotion; able to make others feel tender and emotional.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 195:
- And he, Allada Khan, had decided that the child was not unlike himself - an unaggressive nose, and intelligent forehead, eyes both lively and melting.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editwhich is melting or dissolving
Noun
editmelting (plural meltings)
- The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
- 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist[1], volume 407, number 8835, page 80:
- Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.
- (figurative) The act of softening or mitigating.
Translations
editprocess of changing the state of a substance
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Icelandic
editEtymology
editFrom melta (“to digest”) + -ing.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmelting f (genitive singular meltingar, no plural)
Declension
editDeclension of melting | ||
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f-s1 | singular | |
indefinite | definite | |
nominative | melting | meltingin |
accusative | meltingu | meltinguna |
dative | meltingu | meltingunni |
genitive | meltingar | meltingarinnar |
Derived terms
editOld English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmelting f
Declension
editDeclension of melting (strong ō-stem)
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | melting | — |
accusative | meltinge | — |
genitive | meltinge | — |
dative | meltinge | — |
Descendants
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