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verb

Melt v. t. (past melted; past part. molten; pres. part. melting)

To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.

Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken. "Thou would'st have... melted down thy youth." "For pity melts the mind to love."

Synonyms: To liquefy; fuse; thaw; mollify; soften.

Melt v. i. (past melted; past part. molten; pres. part. melting)

To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.

To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.

Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear. "My soul melteth for heaviness." "Melting with tenderness and kind compassion."

To lose distinct form or outline; to blend. See fondue. "The soft, green, rounded hills, with their flowing outlines, overlapping and melting into each other."

To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.

noun

Melting n. Liquefaction; the act of causing (something) to melt, or the process of becoming melted.

Melting point (Chem.), the degree of temperature at which a solid substance melts or fuses; as, the melting point of ice is 0° Centigrade or 32° Fahr., that of urea is 132° Centigrade. Pressure affects the melting point somewhat, and if not specified the melting point is usually taken to be at atmospheric pressure.

adjective

Melting adj. Causing to melt; becoming melted; used literally or figuratively; as, a melting heat; a melting appeal; a melting mood.

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Etymology of 'Melting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Melting" Quotes from Famous Books

... to melt enough of the sulphur to secure a cast of the medallion. This part of the process resulted in the production of a most appalling smell, which was not lessened in pungency when the odour of singed brown paper was added to that of melting sulphur. When the cast was cool it also was bound round with brown paper, and a compound of plaster-of-paris and water was poured over it When this had hardened, behold! a snowy reproduction of the original medallion. We all went quite wild about this process, and ...

— Recollections • David Christie Murray

... "The ice is melting and discharging in Niagara Falls upon the whaler's deck!" I cried, after listening a moment to the noise of a downpour that rang through the cabin in ...

— The Honour of the Flag • W. Clark Russell

... misery, a consciousness that it was too late, that there was no salvation. The snowdrifts were covered with a thin coating of ice; tears quivered on them and on the trees; a dark slush of mud and melting snow flowed along the roads and paths. In short, it was thawing, but through the dark night the heavens failed to see it, and flung flakes of fresh snow upon the melting earth at a terrific rate. And the wind staggered like a drunkard. It would not let the snow settle on the ground, and whirled ...

— The Witch and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov

... ball, and the voices of men suddenly roused; could see the white forms of men shifting silently over the green, upon which already the under shadows were smouldering. Away at the grange, one side of the haystacks was lit up, the other sides blue-grey. A waggon of sheaves rocked small across the melting yellow light. ...

— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence

... lignum: for so Caesar found it in a castle he besieg'd, built of it; (the story is recited at large by Vitruvius, l. 2. c. 9.) but see what Philander says upon the place, on his own experience: Yet the coals thereof were held far better than any other, for the melting of iron, and the lock-smith; and to say the truth, we find they burn it frequently as common fuel in the Valtoline, if at least it be the true larix, which they now call melere. There is abundance of this ...

— Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) - Or A Discourse of Forest Trees • John Evelyn

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