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Melting vs Thaw - What's the difference?

melting | thaw |

As verbs the difference between melting and thaw

is that melting is present participle of lang=en while thaw is to melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; — said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws. Specifically by gradual warming.

As nouns the difference between melting and thaw

is that melting is the process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point while thaw is the melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost.

As an adjective melting

is which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.

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.}}

    thaw

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; — said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws. Specifically by gradual warming
  • To become so warm as to melt ice and snow; — said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally.
  • (figuratively) To grow gentle or genial.
  • To cause frozen things (such as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve. Specifically by gradual warming.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost
  • a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed. —.
  • See also

    * unthaw, dethaw

    Anagrams

    * * * English ergative verbs