molten

«molten» in Mova's school dictionary: Melted by great heat, about metal, rock or glass: molten… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective

meaning for a pupil

1) Melted by great heat, about metal, rock or glass: molten lava. tree →

2) (cooking, informal) Soft and runny in the middle: a molten chocolate cake. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons about volcanoes and the Earth: «molten rock» under the ground is magma, and when it comes out it is lava. In design and technology, molten metal is poured into moulds. In cooking, a «molten» pudding is gooey inside. Phrases: molten rock, molten lava, molten metal.

examples

• Molten rock pours out of a volcano. tree →
• The Earth's outer core is made of molten iron. tree →
• Molten metal is poured into a mould. tree →
• The glassblower shaped the molten glass. tree →
• Be careful — molten wax is very hot! tree →
• The pudding had a molten chocolate centre. tree →
• Molten lava glowed red in the dark. tree →
• Under the roof were loopholes to shoot through, and to pour down boiling water or even molten lead on the enemy, should he approach. tree →

note

Used for things that melt at very high temperatures (rock, metal, glass). For ice or butter, say «melted»: «melted butter», not «molten butter» (except in cooking jokes). «Molten» is an old form of «melted».

In the corpora

• Igneous rocks form when molten rock cools and hardens.
• Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
• Turn ye not unto the idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
• Behold, all of them, their works are vanity and nought; their molten images are wind and confusion.
• Who hath fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «molten» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.