melting
part of speech
verb form (melt, melts, melted, melting); adjective (melting); noun (melting)
meaning for a pupil
1) Melting means changing from a solid into a liquid because it gets warm, like ice turning into water. tree →
2) Melting can describe something becoming soft, like melting chocolate. tree →
3) In stories, melting can mean becoming softer in feeling. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons on states of matter, melting is when a solid turns into a liquid; ice melts at 0 °C (32 °F), its melting point. The reverse is freezing. Chocolate, butter and candle wax melt when heated. In geography, melting glaciers and ice sheets raise sea levels. Phrases: melting point, melting ice, melt away, melt in your mouth.
examples
- The snowman is melting in the sun. tree →
- Your ice cream is melting; eat it quickly! tree →
- Ice starts melting at zero degrees Celsius. tree →
- We are melting chocolate to make a cake. tree →
- Melting is a change that can be reversed by freezing. tree →
- The melting ice dripped off the roof. tree →
- The candle wax was melting down the sides. tree →
- My heart was melting when I saw the puppy. tree →
- Just one plump morsel, melting away between the teeth. tree →
note
Melting (solid to liquid) is not the same as dissolving (sugar mixing into water) or boiling (liquid to gas). Melting is a reversible change. Melted is the past form: «melted butter».
In the corpora
- Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing are reversible changes, because the molecules stay the same.
- Metamorphic rocks are rocks changed by heat and pressure without melting.
- Melting needs heat, which is why ice cream on a summer table melts and a cool box with ice packs slows it down.
- A drink with ice in it stays near 0 degrees until all the ice has melted, because melting takes in heat.
- Melting is a solid turning into a liquid.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «melting» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.