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melting

adj
/ˈmɛltɪŋ/UK

Definitions

  1. Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.

  2. Given over to strong emotion

    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

    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.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. present participle and gerund of melt

    2. The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past…

      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.

    3. The act of softening or mitigating.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at melting. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at melting. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at melting

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA