different between melting vs felting

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?lt??/
• Rhymes: -?lt??

Verb

melting

1. present participle of melt

Adjective

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, I.i:

     What guards the purities 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.

Translations

Noun

melting (plural meltings)

1. The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
2. (figuratively) The act of softening or mitigating.

Translations

Icelandic

Etymology

From melta (“to digest”) +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?l?ti?k/
• Rhymes: -?l?ti?k

Noun

melting f (genitive singular meltingar, no plural)

1. digestion

Declension

Derived terms

• meltingarfæri

English

Verb

felting

1. present participle of felt

Noun

felting (countable and uncountable, plural feltings)

1. The production of felt from wool.
2. The tangling of woolen fibres (such as when an article of clothing is washed at too high a temperature)
3. The hobby of making objects, such as soft toys, from felt.
4. Felt or similar material, usually impregnated with a water-resistant material, or the application of such material, usually to a roof.

Anagrams

• neftgil