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Noun melting has 1 sense

• melting(n = noun.process) melt, thaw, thawing - the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid; "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours"
is a kind of heating, warming, phase change, phase transition, physical change, state change
Derived forms verb melt₂, verb melt₁

Adjective melting has 1 sense

• melting(s = adj.all) liquescent - becoming liquid; Array

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melting

adoring, affectionate, blackout, bleeding, blocking, charitable, clement, colliquation, colliquative, commiserative, compassionate, condolent, conjugal, decoagulation, deliquescence, deliquium, dematerialization, demonstrative, departure, devoted, disappearance, disappearing, dispersion, dissipation, dissolution, dissolutional, dissolutive, dissolving, eclipse, elimination, erasure, evanescence, evanescent, evaporating, evaporation, extinction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, faithful, filial, fleeting, fluidification, fluidization, flying, fond, forbearant, fugitive, fusibility, fusing, fusion, gentle, going, human, humane, husbandly, languishing, leaching, lenient, liquation, liquefaction, liquefactive, liquefying, liquescence, liquescency, lixiviation, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, maternal, merciful, occultation, parental, passing, paternal, percolation, pitying, romantic, running, ruthful, sentimental, soft, softhearted, solubilization, solution, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, thaw, thawing, thermoplasticity, transient, unclotting, understanding, uxorious, vanishing, vanishing point, warmhearted, wifely, wipe

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Pity

N pity, compassion, commiseration, bowels, of compassion, sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency, leniency, charity, ruth, long- suffering, melting mood, argumentum ad misericordiam, quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae, sympathizer, advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher, pitying, pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched, merciful, clement, ruthful, humane, humanitarian, tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken, soft, soft hearted, unhardened, lenient, exorable, forbearing, melting, weak, Int, for pity's sake!, mercy!, have mercy!, cry you mercy!, God help you!, poor thing!, poor dear!, poor fellow!, woe betide!, quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss!, one's heart bleeding for, haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco, a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind, onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa.

Liquefaction

N liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, melting, colliquation, colliquefaction, thaw, liquation, deliquation, deliquescence, lixiviation, dissolution, solution, apozem, lixivium, infusion, flux, solvent, menstruum, alkahest, liquefied, liquescent, liquefiable, deliquescent, soluble, colliquative.

Calefaction

N calefaction, increase of temperature, heating, calefaction, tepefaction, torrefaction, melting, fusion, liquefaction, burning, ambustion, combustion, incension, accension, concremation, cremation, scorification, cautery, cauterization, ustulation, calcination, cracking, refining, incineration, cineration, carbonization, cupellation, ignition, inflammation, adustion, flagration, deflagration, conflagration, empyrosis, incendiarism, arson, auto dafe, boiling, coction, ebullition, estuation, elixation, decoction, ebullioscope, geyser, distillation (vaporization), furnace, blanket, flannel, fur, wadding, clothing, still, refinery, fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking tower, match, incendiary, petroleuse, cauterizer, caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem, moxa, acid, aqua fortis, aqua regia, catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid, radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium, sunstroke, coup de soleil, insolation, pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china, earthenware, stoneware, pot, mug, terra cotta, brick, clinker, cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot, slag, coke, carbon, charcoal, wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil, gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel), wax, paraffin, residue, tar, inflammability, combustibility, diathermancy, transcalency, conduction, convection, radiation, radiant heat, heat conductivity, conductivity, thermal expansion, coefficient of expansion, heated, molten, sodden, r_echauff_e, heating, adust, inflammable, combustible, diathermal, diathermanous, burnt, volcanic, radioactive.

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