melting
UK/ˈmɛltɪŋ/
melting adjective: which is melting, dissolving or liquefying. Also the present participle and gerund of melt.
Adjective
melting (comparative more melting, superlative most melting)
- Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
- Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
- What guards the purity of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC, canto I, page 125
- That causes one to melt with emotion; able to make others feel tender and emotional.
- And he, Allada Khan, had decided that the child was not unlike himself - an unaggressive nose, and intelligent forehead, eyes both lively and melting.1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 195
Noun
melting (plural meltings)
- The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
- 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.2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80
- The act of softening or mitigating.
Also used as
melting is also the present participle and gerund of melt.
melting meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
melting in Hindi
- process of changing the state of a substance
- गलना galnā
melting in Tamil
- உருகுதல், உருகுகிறது, உருகுவது
melting in Urdu
- پگھلتے ہوئے
melting in Telugu
- ద్రవీభవనం, కరిగింపు
More languagesFewer languages
- melting in Malayalam
- ഉരുകൽ, ഉരുകുന്നത്
- melting in Kannada
- ಕರಗುವಿಕೆ
- melting in Punjabi
- ਪਿਘਲ ਰਿਹਾ ਹੈ
- melting in Nepali
- पिघल्दै
- melting in Arabic
- اِنْصِهَار inṣihār, ذَوَبَان ḏawabān
Examples of melting in a sentence
- One visitor named Hou Yugang said he was not too concerned about climate change and Baishui’s melting.
- They warned that the effects of glacier melting on water resources are becoming “increasingly serious” for China.
- Iron glows red hot when heated to near its melting point.
Forms of melting
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more melting |
| superlative | most melting |
| Noun | |
| plural | meltings |
Words formed from melting
Phrases with melting
- melting up
- melting pot
- dead melting
- melting away
- melting down
- melting into
- melting pots
- zone melting
- melting point
- melting moment
- melting points
- melting moments
2 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with melting
Questions about melting
- What does melting mean?
- Melting means which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
- What is melting in Hindi?
- Melting in Hindi is गलना (galnā). See Melting meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is melting?
- Melting can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce melting?
- Melting is pronounced /ˈmɛltɪŋ/ (UK).
Words near melting in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: melting (page history and authors); melting (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melting (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melting (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melting (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melting (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melting (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); melting (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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