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Melting vs Syntexis - What's the difference?

melting | syntexis |

As a verb melting

is .

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.

As a proper noun syntexis is

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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.}}

    syntexis

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (geology) A change in the structure of magma by melting or the assimilation of a different type of rock.
  • * 1857 , in the Geological Magazine , volume 85, page 355:
    • [...] is immaterial whether this magma is derived from a distinct earth shell, or is produced by syntexis between the sima and the sialic rocks.
  • (medicine) emaciation or wasting away
  • * 1885 , Dujardin-Beaumetz, Indications for Antithermic Medication'', in the ''New York Medical Abstract , volume 5, page 443:
    • The patient feels no longer the irritating surface heat which so fatigues him; the syntexis or colliquation is less; he sleeps better, and this antithermic medication does well with forced feeding, [...]

    See also

    * syntaxis