melting

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[edit] Verb

melting

  1. Present participle of melt.

[edit] Adjective

melting (comparative more melting, superlative most melting)

  1. Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
  2. 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 [...]?

[edit] Noun

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Wikipedia melting (plural meltings)

  1. The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point

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process of changing the state of a substance

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[edit] Etymology

From melta (“to digest”) +‎ -ing.

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[edit] Noun

melting f. (genitive singular meltingar, uncountable)

  1. digestion

[edit] Declension

declension of melting
f-s1 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative melting meltingin - -
accusative meltingu meltinguna - -
dative meltingu meltingunni - -
genitive meltingar meltingarinnar - -

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