Word Meanings - MELTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Liquefaction; the act of causing to melt, or the process of becoming melted. Melting point , the degree of temperature at which a solid substance melts or fuses; as, the melting point of ice is 0º Centigrade or 32º Fahr., that of urea is 132º

Additional info about word: MELTING

Liquefaction; the act of causing to melt, or the process of becoming melted. Melting point , the degree of temperature at which a solid substance melts or fuses; as, the melting point of ice is 0º Centigrade or 32º Fahr., that of urea is 132º Centigrade. -- Melting pot, a vessel in which anything is melted; a crucible.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MELTING)

• Liquid
• Fluid
• liquescent
• melting
• running
• watery
• fluent
• soft
• mellifluous
• limpid
• flowing
• clear
• smooth
• Pathetic
• Affecting
• moving
• emotional
• tender

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MELTING)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to MELTING)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• MOVER
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• MOVELESS
  Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• MOVABLE
  1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• SYMPATHETIC
  1. Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith. 2. Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy. Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Gray. Produced by sympathy; --
• ENMOVE
  See EMMOVE
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• MELLIFLUENTLY
  In a mellifluent manner.
• PROMOVE
  To move forward; to advance; to promote. Bp. Fell.