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# melting

«melting» in Mova's school dictionary: **changing from a solid into a liquid because it gets warm…** — 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

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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/#m1)

2) Melting can describe something becoming soft, like melting chocolate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/#m2)

3) In stories, melting can mean becoming softer in feeling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/#x1)
- Your ice cream is melting; eat it quickly! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/#x2)
- Ice starts melting at zero degrees Celsius. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/#x3)
- We are melting chocolate to make a cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/#x4)
- Melting is a change that can be reversed by freezing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/#x5)
- The melting ice dripped off the roof. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/#x6)
- The candle wax was melting down the sides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/#x7)
- My heart was melting when I saw the puppy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/#x8)
- Just one plump morsel, melting away between the teeth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/9-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo/5/)
- [Metamorphic rocks are rocks changed by heat and pressure without melting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/49-sedimentary-and-metamorphic-rocks/12/)
- [Melting needs heat, which is why ice cream on a summer table melts and a cool box with ice packs slows it down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/23-heat-moves-hot-to-cold/14/)
- [A drink with ice in it stays near 0 degrees until all the ice has melted, because melting takes in heat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/physics/43-olympiad-sound-light-heat-and-magnets/11/)
- [Melting is a solid turning into a liquid.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/12-melting-freezing-boiling/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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