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.
- 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.
- adjective Causing to melt; becoming melted; -- used literally or figuratively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
melt . - adjective Which is melting,
dissolving orliquefying . - adjective Given over to strong emotion; tender;
aroused ;emotional ,tearful . - noun The process of
changing thestate of asubstance fromsolid toliquid byheating it past itsmelting 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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Examples
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The term melting pot didn't surface because we have remained separated by our nationalities, religions and general backgrounds.
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But as for the people who live in the USA aren’t we made up of just about every nation on this planet; hence the term melting pot.
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In Toronto at least, the heat has swung a full 180 degrees from last week's rainy and cold dreariness to a hot, humid, skin melting climate.
Going Around in Circles Sarah 2009
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Glacial melting is following historical patterns ...
Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In Toronto at least, the heat has swung a full 180 degrees from last week's rainy and cold dreariness to a hot, humid, skin melting climate.
Archive 2009-06-01 Sarah 2009
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YouTube, that incandescent tower of video Babel; monument to the sloughed-off detritus of our exponentially-exploding digital culture; a Technicolor cataract of skateboarding dogs, lip-synching college students, political punditry, and porn; has reached the zenith of its meteoric rise; and Icarus-like, wings melting; is spiraling back to earth.
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I could almost feel my brain melting away … Epic. adapter rings
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Brilliant!!!! Mario vs Pacman 2009
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If we keep destroying the plants and tree environment the oxygen levels will drop while the polar caps ice melting is releasing more methane into the atmosphere.
Think Progress » Sen. Bennett: ‘Greenhouse Gas Emissions Have Nothing Whatever To Do With Clean Air’ 2010
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Foreclosures are running at an all time high and the homeless are melting from the 104 degree heat index.
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Satellite and ice measurements show the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an increasing rate, and mountain glacier melting is accelerating;
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