Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Disposed to melt or soften; feeling or showing tenderness; tender; compassionate.
- Adapted to melt or soften; affecting; moving: as, a melting speech.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of melt.
- adj. Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
- adj. Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
- n. The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Liquefaction; the act of causing (something) to melt, or the process of becoming melted.
- adj. Causing to melt; becoming melted; -- used literally or figuratively.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
- adj. becoming liquid
Examples
“The term melting pot didn't surface because we have remained separated by our nationalities, religions and general backgrounds.”
“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.”
“Foreclosures are running at an all time high and the homeless are melting from the 104 degree heat index.”
“I could almost feel my brain melting away … Epic. adapter rings”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Brilliant!!!! Mario vs Pacman
“Glacial melting is following historical patterns ...”
Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“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’
“Satellite and ice measurements show the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an increasing rate, and mountain glacier melting is accelerating;”
“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.”
“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.”
“The present melting is not the result of “environmental damage caused by man.””
The non-AGW non-snows of Kilimanjaro. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘melting’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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movement (slow)
words describing slow action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
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http://www.wordnik.co...creep, crawl, plod, slouch, idle, lumber, tiptoe, bend, amble, mosey, saunter, loiter and 117 more...
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TECH - metals and alloys
embrittle, braze, nickel alloy, metallize, Inconel, eutectic, metalize, vapor pressure, corrosion-resistant, alloy, stainless steel, neutron flux and 262 more...
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Heroes
Powers revealed so far on the show Heroes
flying, radiation, clairvoyance, telekinesis, time travel, mimic, mimicking, strength, healing, suggestion, illusion, inhibitor and 5 more...
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Tunie: Colcannon
I first heard this sung by Bob Hallett of Great Big Sea, though I know several other artists recorded it first.
Did you ever have colcannon made with lovely pickled cream
And the...cáilín, clúrachán, boreen, moon, a-courting, cry, bite, teacher, rule, slate, books, oxter and 19 more...
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