Melting

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈmÉ›ltɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -É›ltɪŋ

Verb

1. Present participle of melt

Full definition of melting

Adjective

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, I.i:What guards the purities of melting maids,
  In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades ...?

Noun

1. The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
• 2013-05-11, The climate of Tibet: Pole-land, 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.