melting
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɛltɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -ɛltɪŋ
Verb
melting
- present participle of melt
Adjective
melting (comparative more melting, superlative most melting)
- Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
- Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
- 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, OCLC 43265629, canto I, page 125:
- What guards the purity of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?
- 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.
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Derived terms
- meltingly
Translations
which is melting or dissolving
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Noun
melting (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, 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.
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- (figuratively) The act of softening or mitigating.
Translations
process of changing the state of a substance
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Icelandic
Etymology
From melta (“to digest”) + -ing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛl̥tiŋk/
- Rhymes: -ɛl̥tiŋk
Noun
melting f (genitive singular meltingar, no plural)
- digestion
Declension
declension of melting
f-s1 | singular | |
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indefinite | definite | |
nominative | melting | meltingin |
accusative | meltingu | meltinguna |
dative | meltingu | meltingunni |
genitive | meltingar | meltingarinnar |
Derived terms
- meltingarfæri
Old English
Alternative forms
- meltung
Etymology
meltan + -ing
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmel.tinɡ/, [ˈmeɫ.tiŋɡ]
Noun
melting f
- melting
- digestion
Declension
Declension of melting (strong ō-stem)
Case | Singular | Plural |
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nominative | melting | — |
accusative | meltinge | — |
genitive | meltinge | — |
dative | meltinge | — |
Descendants
- Middle English: melting
- English: melting