meltingness
verb (used without object)
1.
to become liquefied by warmth or heat, as ice, snow, butter, or metal.
2.
to become liquid; dissolve: Let the cough drop melt in your mouth.
3.
to pass, dwindle, or fade gradually (often followed by away ): His fortune slowly melted away.
4.
to pass, change, or blend gradually (often followed by into ): Night melted into day.
5.
to become softened in feeling by pity, sympathy, love, or the like: The tyrant's heart would not melt.
verb (used with object)
7.
to reduce to a liquid state by warmth or heat; fuse: Fire melts ice.
8.
to cause to pass away or fade.
9.
to cause to pass, change, or blend gradually.
10.
to soften in feeling, as a person or the heart.
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noun
11.
the act or process of melting; state of being melted.
12.
something that is melted.
13.
a quantity melted at one time.
14.
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
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
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.
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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melt (mɛlt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb , melts, melting, melted, melted, molten | |
| 1. | to liquefy (a solid) or (of a solid) to become liquefied, as a result of the action of heat |
| 2. | to become or make liquid; dissolve: cakes that melt in the mouth |
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| 4. | ( |
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| 6. | to make or become emotional or sentimental; soften |
| —n | |
| 7. | the act or process of melting |
| 8. | something melted or an amount melted |
| [Old English meltan to digest; related to Old Norse melta to malt (beer), digest, Greek meldein to melt] | |
| 'meltable | |
| —adj | |
| melta'bility | |
| —n | |
| 'melter | |
| —n | |
| 'meltingly | |
| —adv | |
| 'meltingness | |
| —n | |
| melt (mɛlt) | |
| —vb , melts, melting, melted, melted, molten | |
| 1. | to liquefy (a solid) or (of a solid) to become liquefied, as a result of the action of heat |
| 2. | to become or make liquid; dissolve: cakes that melt in the mouth |
| 3. | ( |
| 4. | ( |
| 5. | ( |
| 6. | to make or become emotional or sentimental; soften |
| —n | |
| 7. | the act or process of melting |
| 8. | something melted or an amount melted |
| [Old English meltan to digest; related to Old Norse melta to malt (beer), digest, Greek meldein to melt] | |
| 'meltable | |
| —adj | |
| melta'bility | |
| —n | |
| 'melter | |
| —n | |
| 'meltingly | |
| —adv | |
| 'meltingness | |
| —n | |
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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.
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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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. |
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