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melting
/ˈmɛltɪŋ/
adj 3noun 2
Collocations
5ADJ.
known, lively, most, polar, tasty
VERB + MELTING
am, begun, change, lead, monitor, orbit, plant, snow
MELTING + NOUN
cream, glaciers, ice, icecaps, maids, pot, rods
PREP.
around, down, in, into
ADV.
away, courtly, partially
Definitions
adj
1
Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
2
Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
What guards the purity of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?
3
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.
noun
1
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.
2
The act of softening or mitigating.
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What guards the purity of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?
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And he, Allada Khan, had decided that the child was not unlike himself - an unaggressive nose, and intelligent forehead, eyes both lively and melting.
Wiktionary03
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 aro
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New York is sometimes referred to as the melting pot of races.
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America is often referred to as a melting pot.
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The United States has long been known as a "melting pot" because most of its people are descended from immigrants.
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