melting
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈmɛltɪŋ/
- present participle of melt#English|melt
melting
- Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
- Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
- 1714, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, I.i:
- What guards the purities of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?
- 1714, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, I.i:
- That causes one to melt with emotion; able to make others feel tender and emotional.
melting (plural meltings)
- The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
- (figurative) The act of softening or mitigating.
- French: fusion
- German: Schmelzen
- Russian: плавящийся,расплавленный
- Spanish: fusión, fundición, derretimiento, licuación, licuefacción, colicuación
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