different between melting vs syntexis

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

Etymology

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ???????? (súnt?xis, “a melting”)

Noun

syntexis (uncountable)

1. (geology) A change in the structure of magma by melting or the assimilation of a different type of rock.
   • 1857, in the Geological Magazine, volume 85, page 355:

     [...] is immaterial whether this magma is derived from a distinct earth shell, or is produced by syntexis between the sima and the sialic rocks.

2. (medicine) emaciation or wasting away
   • 1885, Dujardin-Beaumetz, Indications for Antithermic Medication, in the New York Medical Abstract, volume 5, page 443:

     The patient feels no longer the irritating surface heat which so fatigues him; the syntexis or colliquation is less; he sleeps better, and this antithermic medication does well with forced feeding, [...]

See also

• syntaxis