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# thaw

«thaw» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to melt: ice or snow thaws when it gets warmer** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (thaw, thaws, thawed, thawing); noun (a thaw)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To thaw is to melt: ice or snow thaws when it gets warmer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thaw/#m1)

2) To thaw frozen food is to let it become soft and unfrozen before cooking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thaw/#m2)

3) A thaw is a time of warmer weather when snow and ice melt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thaw/#m3)

4) If a person or a relationship thaws, it becomes friendlier after being cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thaw/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on states of matter, thawing is melting: solid ice changes to liquid water above 0 °C. In cooking and food safety, frozen meat must be thawed in the fridge, not left out. In geography, the spring thaw makes rivers rise. In stories «she thawed a little» means she became friendlier. Phrases: «thaw out», «spring thaw», «defrost».

### examples

- The Samaritans still to this day preserve a tradition allowing Resh to occur in both single and double forms, bearing a distinction comparable to the difference between the Spanish single r of pero and double rr of perro.] Taw-Thaw. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thaw/#x1)
- The snow began to thaw in March. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thaw/#x2)
- Thaw the chicken in the fridge overnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thaw/#x3)
- The ice on the pond thawed in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thaw/#x4)
- After the thaw, the river flooded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thaw/#x5)
- My frozen fingers thawed out by the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thaw/#x6)
- Ice thaws at 0 °C. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thaw/#x7)
- Their friendship slowly thawed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thaw/#x8)
- The snow that lay upon it was partially thawed, and the stones crumbled beneath the feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thaw/#x9)

### note

Past: thawed. «Thaw» is mostly used for ice, snow and frozen food; «melt» is wider (chocolate melts). Opposite: freeze. Safety: never walk on ice that is thawing. Rhymes with «saw».

### In the corpora

- [The North American wood frog can freeze solid in winter, with its heart stopped, and thaw and hop away in spring.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/55-sleep-and-hibernation/12/)
- [Freezing does not kill most germs; they wake up again when the food thaws.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/10-keeping-cold-fridges-freezers-and-heat-pumps/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thaw» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/T/thaw/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.