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melting

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verb (used without object)

to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.

to become liquid; dissolve: Let the cough drop melt in your mouth.

to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually (often followed by away): His fortune slowly melted away.

to pass, change, or blend gradually (often followed by into): Night melted into day.

to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like: The tyrant's heart would not melt.

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Obsolete. to be subdued or overwhelmed by sorrow, dismay, etc.

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verb (used with object)

to reduce to a liquid state by warmth or heat; fuse: Fire melts ice.

to cause to pass away or fade.

to cause to pass, change, or blend gradually.

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to soften in feeling, as a person or the heart.

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noun

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the act or process of melting; state of being melted.

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something that is melted.

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a quantity melted at one time.

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a sandwich or other dish topped with melted cheese: a tuna melt.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English melten, Old English meltan (intransitive), m(i)elten (transitive) to melt, digest; cognate with Old Norse melta to digest, Greek méldein to melt

Related forms

melt·a·ble, adjective

melt·a·bil·i·ty, noun

melt·ing·ly, adverb

melt·ing·ness, noun

non·melt·a·ble, adjective

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non·melt·ing, adjective

un·melt·a·ble, adjective

un·melt·ed, adjective

un·melt·ing, adjective

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Can be confused: evanescence, evaporation, liquefaction, melting, thawing, transpiration, vaporization.

Synonyms
1. Melt, dissolve, fuse, thaw imply reducing a solid substance to a liquid state. To melt is to bring a solid to a liquid condition by the agency of heat: to melt butter. Dissolve, though sometimes used interchangeably with melt, applies to a different process, depending upon the fact that certain solids, placed in certain liquids, distribute their particles throughout the liquids: A greater number of solids can be dissolved in water and in alcohol than in any other liquids. To fuse is to subject a solid (usually a metal) to a very high temperature; it applies especially to melting or blending metals together: Bell metal is made by fusing copper and tin. To thaw is to restore a frozen substance to its normal (liquid, semiliquid, or more soft and pliable) state by raising its temperature above the freezing point: Sunshine will thaw ice in a lake. 4. dwindle. 10. gentle, mollify, relax.

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Example Sentences

Glaciers are melting and they think that's, well, cool.

Once melting begins, more heat pours in and ever faster melting results.

Warmer temperatures are melting ice and eroding the world's glaciers.

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Glaciers are melting and they think that's, well, cool.

Once melting begins, more heat pours in and ever faster melting results.

Warmer temperatures are melting ice and eroding the world's glaciers.

Due to climate change substantial amounts of offshore sea ice are melting.

The city's small wooden homes were built on pilings to keep them from melting the permafrost, which would cause them to sink.

Use mozzarella for a melting texture and good cheesy flavor without a lot of fat.

Melting ice could slide off continental shelves and into the ocean faster than it's replaced by fresh snowfall.

Which leads to a strange melting of stories and times somewhere over the rainbow.

Even he, however, did not conceive of the idea of melting that ice by human agency.

Some scientists attribute the overflow to volcanic vents, heating the base of the glacier and melting the bottom layer of ice.

Ice is melting at the poles much faster than climate models predict.

The hills, gorges, streams and lakes were carved by glaciers melting thousands of years ago.

The shape gives cycloalkanes a higher melting point.

Melting glaciers and acidified oceans don't care about your social and economic views.

Sea levels are rising for two reasons-because water expands as it warms, and because ice is melting.

Such warming not only melted the ice but also created additional effects that led to further melting.

The key to lead's popularity lies in the one-two punch of high strength combined with a low melting point.

It is a melting pot that includes more ingredients than race, religion or lifestyle.

Melting down used plastic to make the next hipster tote.

But accelerated melting induced by this soot could cause flooding.

Melting polar ice is flowing into the world's oceans much faster than previously thought, new studies show.

Paris--The signs of global climate change are clear: melting glaciers, earlier blooms and rising temperatures.

Melting ice shelves do not raise the worldwide sea level, because this ice is already floating on the ocean.

The melting of an ice shelf, which is merely a floating projection into the sea, would not affect sea levels.

So it should be born in mind that deep permafrost melting may be occuring now.

But when snowflake ice is melting on your tongue, it's tough to resist the urge to shout.

Arctic sea ice is melting far faster than climate models predict.

That's what happens when your lab sits on a melting ice floe.

Contact feels softer than butter melting in the sun.

Melting snow swells the river as the spring thaw moves north.

Floods from the melting ice washed out many of the local roads.

With the melting snow, that traffic may start again.

Some headphones are built for kicking back on the couch and melting into the music.

Europe's second-largest river has been swollen by torrential rain and melting snow.

The tactics of today's insurgent bombmakers are the product of a long-simmering melting pot of global terrorism.

Few people speak unabashedly anymore about the ideal of the melting pot.

Some of this week's offerings in the popsicle matrix begin melting more quickly than others.

But overall the observations are consistent with the melting that.

New evidence links melting glaciers with the evolution of life.

New gullies appear, and you see them only in places where the temperature rose above the melting point of water.

Researchers cannot agree whether the melting is attributable mainly to humanity's role in global warming.

It's difficult to ignore photographic evidence that the roof of the world is melting at a rapid pace.

It would take the melting of an ice sheet to do that.

Normally the highest part of a tropical glacier gains thickness from snowfall during the wet season, making up for melting below.

Moraine: a mound of unsorted till, deposited by ice action or melting of a glacier.

Roll-up, flexible televisions, akin to the melting watches of.

Arctic melting accelerates, revealing uncharted islands and threatening to raise sea levels all over the world.

If the trend worsens, melting ice and icebergs falling into the ocean could raise global sea levels substantially.

But as churchgoing dwindles, their business is melting away-prompting some firms to look for new customers.

It's no surprise that a warming climate is melting the world's glaciers and polar ice.

The melting down accelerating faster and faster as the black soot became as an old frying pan.

For a coating or molding, melting alone won't do the job.

Since sea-ice is already in the water, its melting has little effect on sea levels.

Sagebrush slopes and mountain forest openings, often near melting snow.

Than the speed of melting and the release of all fallouts coming loose.

Tempering chocolate can be summed up thusly: melting it, cooling it and gently melting it again.

Melting ice and rising seas threaten their lives and cultures.

Goodyear first needed to find a way to keep rubber from cracking in the cold and melting in the heat.

The tactics of today's insurgent bombmakers are the product of a long-simmering melting pot of global terrorism:.

Some environmental campaigners came dressed as melting polar bears.

They should think about melting ice that they have seen.

The ice caps are melting so swiftly that rising water levels will.

Subsurface aquifers or melting ground ice were floated as possible sources of the water.

Global warming is causing melting of the permafrost and shifting of species ranges.

But it is melting fast, with the thunderous sounds of icebergs calving off glaciers filling the air.

While this pilgrimage may be necessary to keep churning out cheap almonds, it also creates a melting pot of pathogens.

Now are looking at six reactors in the next few days melting down.

The diesel fuel cools the walls of the machine, to keep the thing from melting.

And one of the main things about this was that there would be more melting of the thin liquid film at the front than at the back.

Vast swamps caused by perma-frost melting and insect and other infestations of the vast sub-artic forests are only two examples.

Biscardi who gave us permission to begin an expedited melting process.

Alas, there is still a big blank spot in physics textbooks where the theory of crystal melting should.

We derive our primary estimate of the temperature of the deep earth from the melting behavior of iron at ultrahigh pressures.

So year after year for the same given amount of ice melting there will be less and less sea level rise.

The melting of the polar ice caps threatens to raise sea levels of salt water endangering coastal cities.

Indonesia's ethnic, religious, and linguistic melting pot has produced a fittingly wide range of faiths and religious practices.

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

melt

O.E. meltan "become liquid" (class III strong verb; past tense mealt, pp. molten), from P.Gmc. *meltanan; fused with O.E. gemæltan (Anglian), gemyltan (W.Saxon) "make liquid," from P.Gmc. *gamaltijanan (cf. O.N. melta "to digest"), both from PIE *meld- "softness" (cf. Gk. meldein "to melt," L.

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mollis "soft, mild"). Related: Melted; melting. Melting pot is from 1540s; figurative use from 1855; popularized with reference to America by play "The Melting Pot" by Israel Zangwill (1908).

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American Heritage

Science Dictionary

melt

(mělt) Pronunciation Key
To change from a solid to a liquid state by heating or being heated with sufficient energy at the melting point. See also heat of fusion.

Encyclopedia Britannica

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melting

change of a solid into a liquid when heat is applied. In a pure crystalline solid, this process occurs at a fixed temperature called the melting point (q.v.); an impure solid generally melts over a range of temperatures below the melting point of the principal component. Amorphous (non-crystalline) substances such as glass or pitch melt by gradually decreasing in viscosity as temperature is raised, with no sharp transition from solid to liquid

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