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Melting vs Deglaciate - What's the difference?

melting | deglaciate |

As verbs the difference between melting and deglaciate

is that melting is while deglaciate is (of land) to become uncovered as a result of the melting of a former glacier.

As an adjective melting

is which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.

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.}}

    deglaciate

    English

    Verb

    (deglaciat)
  • (of land) To become uncovered as a result of the melting of a former glacier