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# melting

verb form (melt, melts, melted, melting); adjective (melting); noun (melting)

«melting» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Melting means changing from a solid into a liquid because it gets warm, like ice turning into water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/#m1)
2. Melting can describe something becoming soft, like melting chocolate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/#m2)
3. In stories, melting can mean becoming softer in feeling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/#m3)

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «melting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/melting/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«melting» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/melting.html) on Mova free.