melting

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English [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Verb [edit]

melting

  1. Present participle of melt.

Adjective [edit]

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 [...]?

Noun [edit]

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

Translations [edit]

process of changing the state of a substance

Icelandic [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From melta (“to digest”) +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

melting f (genitive singular meltingar, uncountable)

  1. digestion

Declension [edit]

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

Derived terms [edit]

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