Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Disposed to melt or soften; feeling or showing tenderness; tender; compassionate.
  • Adapted to melt or soften; affecting; moving: as, a melting speech.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Causing to melt; becoming melted; -- used literally or figuratively.
  • noun Liquefaction; the act of causing (something) to melt, or the process of becoming melted.
  • noun (Chem.) the degree of temperature at which a solid substance melts or fuses. Pressure affects the melting point somewhat, and if not specified the melting point is usually taken to be at atmospheric pressure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of melt.
  • adjective Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
  • adjective Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
  • noun The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
  • adjective becoming liquid

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