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Melting vs Captivating - What's the difference?

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Melting is a related term of captivating.


As verbs the difference between melting and captivating

is that melting is while captivating is .

As adjectives the difference between melting and captivating

is that melting is which is melting, dissolving or liquefying while captivating is that captivates; fascinating.

As a noun melting

is the process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.

melting

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
  • 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

    (wikipedia melting) (en noun)
  • The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=The climate of Tibet: Pole-land
  • , date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80 , magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=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.}}

    captivating

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that captivates; fascinating
  • beautiful; showing great beauty
  • Derived terms

    * captivatingly

    Verb

    (head)