meltingとは意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

melting

1. present participle of melt

形容詞

melting (comparative more melting, superlative most melting)

1. Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
2. Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.
   • 1714, Alexander Pope, “The Rape of the Lock”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, OCLC 43265629, canto I, page 125:

     What guards the purity of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?

3. That causes one to melt with emotion; able to make others feel tender and emotional.
   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 195:

     And he, Allada Khan, had decided that the child was not unlike himself - an unaggressive nose, and intelligent forehead, eyes both lively and melting.

派生語

• meltingly

名詞

melting (複数形 meltings)

1. The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
   • 2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8835, page 80:

     Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.

2. (figuratively) The act of softening or mitigating.

別の表記

• meltung

語源

meltan +‎ -ing

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈmel.tinɡ/, [ˈmeɫ.tiŋɡ]

名詞

melting f

1. melting
2. digestion

語形変化

派生した語

• Middle English: melting
  • English: melting