melting

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛltɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛltɪŋ

Verb

melting

1. present participle and gerund of melt

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”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto I, page 125:

     What guards the purity of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?

3. That causes one to melt with emotion; able to make others feel tender and emotional.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 195:

     And he, Allada Khan, had decided that the child was not unlike himself - an unaggressive nose, and intelligent forehead, eyes both lively and melting.

Derived terms

• meltingly

Translations

which is melting or dissolving

• Bulgarian: размекнат (bg) (razmeknat), топящ се (topjašt se)
• Latin: tābidus

Noun

melting (plural meltings)

1. The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
   • 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8835, page 80:

     Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.

2. (figurative) The act of softening or mitigating.

Translations

process of changing the state of a substance

• Arabic: اِنْصِهَار (ar) m (inṣihār), ذَوَبَان m (ḏawabān)
• Bulgarian: топене (bg) n (topene)
• Czech: tání (cs) n
• Finnish: sulaminen (fi)
• French: fusion (fr)
• German: Schmelzen (de) n
• Greek: τήξη (el) f (tíxi)
• Hebrew: צרוף (he) (tzeirüf)
• Norwegian: smelter
• Russian: плавящийся (ru) (plavjaščijsja), расплавленный (ru) (rasplavlennyj)
• Spanish: fusión (es) f, fundición (es) f, derretimiento (es) m, licuación (es) f, licuefacción (es) f, colicuación (es) f
• Swedish: smältning (sv) c
• Turkish: erime (tr)

Icelandic

Etymology

From melta (“to digest”) +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛl̥tiŋk/
• Rhymes: -ɛl̥tiŋk

Noun

melting f (genitive singular meltingar, no plural)

1. digestion

Declension

Declension of melting (sg-only feminine)

	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	melting	meltingin
accusative	meltingu	meltinguna
dative	meltingu	meltingunni
genitive	meltingar	meltingarinnar

Derived terms

• meltingarfæri

Old English

Alternative forms

• meltung

Etymology

meltan +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmel.tinɡ/, [ˈmeɫ.tiŋɡ]

Noun

melting f

1. melting
2. digestion

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	melting	—
accusative	meltinge	—
genitive	meltinge	—
dative	meltinge	—

Descendants

• Middle English: melting
  • English: melting