Thaw

Definitions: Thaw

Thaw

Noun

1. The process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid; "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours".

2. Warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt; "they welcomed the spring thaw".

Verb

1. Become or cause to become soft or liquid; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "thaw" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Biographical Satire

Building & Civil Engineering

Dream Interpretation

Food & Agriculture

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Thaw

Calefaction

Melt, thaw, fuse; liquefy .

Excitability

Calm down, cool down; gentle; thaw, grow cool.

Heat

Heat. (make hot); recalesce; thaw, give.

Liquefaction

Noun: liquefaction; liquescence, liquescency; melting. (heat); colliquation, colliquefaction; thaw; liquation, deliquation, deliquescence; lixiviation, dissolution.

Pity

Verb: pity; have pity, show pity, take pity; Noun: commiserate, compassionate; condole; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of.

Crosswords: Thaw

I think you should send us the biggest transport plane you have, and take this thing to the Arctic or somewhere and drop it where it will never thaw. (The Blob; writing credit: Kay Linaker; Irving H. Millgate)

They both, though, have thirty-three thick thimbles to thaw. (references; author: unknown)

Thaw and the Spider (1913)

The John Thaw Story (2002)

Thaw (2000)

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Books

• A Fatal Thaw (reference)

• Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection (reference)

• Blue Deer Thaw (reference)

• Real Images: Soviet Cinemas and the Thaw (Kino, the Russian Cinema Series) (reference)

• Spring Thaw (Harlequin Temptation, No 235) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Puccini: Gianni Schicchi / Fischer-Dieskau � Mödl � Ahnsjö � Thaw � Fahberg � Auer � Engen � Grumbach � Wewezow � Schary � Sawallisch (reference)

• Thaw (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Midwinter carnival, the ice fortress after the thaw, 1909, Upper Saranac Lake, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.

Upper Saranac Lake, N.Y., midwinter carnival, the ice fortress (after the thaw).Credit: Library of Congress.

Thaw near Woodstock, Vermont.Credit: Library of Congress.

Muddy road after thaw, near Stowe, Vermont.Credit: Library of Congress.

Spring thaw in farmland near Woodstock, Vermont.Credit: Library of Congress.

Thaw, Evelyn Nesbit, Mrs., and boy, portrait photograph.Credit: Library of Congress.

Paintings. First thaw by P. Monstead.Credit: Library of Congress.

The thaw is on.Credit: Library of Congress.

Thaw.Credit: Library of Congress.

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He had, in some sort, to thaw himself out of the sepulchre.

Thaw with his gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer.

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Health

Thaw meat in the refrigerator, not on the kitchen counter. (references)

Economic History

Tajikistan

Flooding sometimes occurs during the annual Spring thaw. (references)

Lithuania

During the Khrushchev thaw in the 1950s, the leadership of the LCP acquired limited independence in decision-making. (references)

Mozambique

In late 1983, a new U.S. ambassador arrived in Maputo and the first Mozambican envoy to the United States arrived in Washington, signaling a thaw in the bilateral relationship. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "thaw": thaw holes ♦ thaw lake ♦ thaw out. Additional references.

Beginning with "thaw": thaw-mounted, thaw-water.

Ending with "thaw": freeze-thaw.

Albanian

tret (assimilate, cut, dissipate, dissolve, lose, macerate, melt), shkrirje bore, shkrij (consolidate, defreeze, disband, fuse, fuze, liquate, melt, melt down, merge, smelt, thaw out, unite), ngrohtësi (Ardor, ardour, cordiality, fervor, fervour, geniality, glow, heat, warmth), ngrohem (bask, tepefy, warm, warm up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرح (cheer, cheerful, delight, gaiety, gladden, gladness, glee, gleesome, gloat, happy, joy, joyful, liven up, rejoicing, tickle), ‏ذوبان (solution), ‏ذاب (dissolve, flux, fuse, fuze, melt, render, solve), ‏أصبح دافئا, ‏أذاب (dissolve, flux, levigate, run), ‏روض (break, break in, domesticate, gentle, manage, master, school, tame, train). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разтопявам (dissolve, fuse, melt), размразяване, топя (dissolve, found, fuse, melt, render, run, smelt, steep, try, unfreeze), топене (fusion, liquefaction, melting), отпускане (allocation, appropriation, grant, issue, relaxation, release, rendering), затопляне, поотпускам се (ease off, ease up, go easy, let up). (various references)

Chinese 

解凍 , 解冻 (thawed, thawing). (various references)

Czech

tát (melt), tání, uvolnìní (disengagement, easing, relaxation, release, relief, undoing, vacation), roztát (unfreeze), rozpouštìt se, rozmrazit (defrost, unfreeze), rozehřát (heat, warm up), oteplení, obleva. (various references)

Danish

tøvejr (melting). (various references)

Dutch

ontdooien (de-icing, melt, thawing), wegsmelten (melt), dooien (melt, to thaw), dooi (melting, thawing). (various references)

Esperanto

degelo (melting), degeli (melt). (various references)

Faeroese

toya (melt), tiðna (melt). (various references)

Farsi 

گرم شدن (Warm), گداختن (Dissolve, Liquefy, Melt, Smelt). (various references)

Finnish

sulattaa (digest, melt, put up with, smelt, stomach, take in, to digest). (various references)

French

dégeler (to thaw), dégel, décongeler. (various references)

Frisian

teie (melt), tei (melting). (various references)

German

Tauwetter (melting, relaxation), tauen (dew, melt, thawing, to dew), auftauen (defrost, loosen up, melt, thawing, to defrost, to thaw, unbend, unfreeze). (various references)

Greek 

ξεπαγώνω (defrost). (various references)

Hebrew 

למוסס (dissolve, melt, solve), למסמס (crush, dissolve, soothe, squeeze), לפשור (compromise, cool off, melt), ל�"מס (dissolve, melt down), ל�"פשיר (defrost, melt, temper, unfreeze), �"פשרת של�'ים, �"פשר�" (defrosting, lukewarmness, melting). (various references)

Hungarian

olvadás (melt), enyhébb idő. (various references)

Indonesian

meleleh. (various references)

Italian

sgelare (melt, to thaw), scongelare (defrost, thaw out, unfreeze), sciogliere (be dissolved, break up, crack, deatch, detach, disband, dissolve, loose, loosen, melt, release, render, resolve, set free, shake out, solve, unbend, unbind, unchain, undo, unfix, untie), disgelo (thawing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

解凍 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しもどけ (thawing), かいとう (answer, dissolution, glycolysis, good pitch, mysteriousthief, reply, sharp sword, society president, solution). (various references)

Korean 

눈녹은물. (various references)

Manx

theinniu (defrost, liquefaction, liquefy; thawing). (various references)

Pig Latin

awthay

Portuguese

degelo (melting, snowbreak, thawing). (various references)

Romanian

topi (consume, destroy, dissolve, flux, found, fuse, melt, melt down, render, ret, rot, smelt, wick), dezgheţa (enliven, melt). (various references)

Russian 

растаять (melt), таять (melt), таяние, оттепель (snowbreak). (various references)

Scottish

tainneamh, aiteamh (a thaw). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

topljenje (melting), topiti se, rastopiti (liquefy, melt, melt down), raskravljivanje, raskraviti (melt). (various references)

Spanish

deshielo (breakup, breakup season, ice run, melting, snowbreak, thawing), deshelar (defrost), descongelar (defreeze, defrost, unfreeze). (various references)

Swedish

tina (basket, eel pot, fish pot, melt, tub), töväder (melting, thawing), töa, tö. (various references)

Thai

เป็นมิตรขึ้น, ส� าวะที่อากาศอุ่นขึ้นถึงจุ�"ที่หิมะและน้ำแข็งละลาย, ทำให้ละลาย, การพั�'นาความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างประเทศหลังจากที่ไม่เป็นมิตรกันมาก่อน. (various references)

Turkish

rahatlatmak (comfort, de-stress, disburden, disembarrass, ease, facilitate, lighten, relax, relieve, relieve one's mind, salve, straighten smb. out, thaw out, unbend, unbrace, unburden), eritmek (dissolve, fuse, fuze, make a dent in, melt, reduce, render, smelt, unfreeze, whittle away, whittle off), erimek (deliquesce, dissolve, fuse, melt, pine, pine away, run), erime (fusing, fusion, melting), buzu çözülmek, buzları çözülme, açmak (bare, beat, bring up in conversation, bring up the subject, broach, cave, cave in, clear, clear away, clear off, clear up, cleave, cut, cut loose, dehisce, denude, dilate, dilute, disclose, disentangle, elaborate, evolve, expand, fade, inaugurate, institute, lay open, lead, lighten, loosen, loosen up, offer, open, open out, open up, pass, put up, ring up, shake out, sharpen, site, spread, spread out, strip, switch on, thaw out, throw open, tint, turn on, turn up, unbind, unbosom, unburden, uncase, unclasp, uncloak, unclose, unclothe, uncoil, uncover, uncross, uncurl, undo, unfold, unfurl, unhitch, unlock, unloose, unpack, unpin, unplait, unroll, unseal, unsnarl, unstop, untangle, unthread, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, unwrap, usher in, whet, whiten, wind), açılmak (admit smb. into one's confidence, air, bare, be opened, become relaxed, come loose, come open, come undone, disclose one's secret, disentangle, disperse, diverge, effuse, expand, fine, flower, gape, get loose, go up, loosen, loosen up, open, open in, open oneself, open out, open up, recrudesce, refresh, spread, unbend, uncurl, unfasten, unfold, unfurl, unload, untwine, untwist, unwind, work loose, yawn), açılma (burst, clarification, dehiscence, deploy, deployment, dilatation, dilation, divergence, divergency, effusion, effusiveness, evolution, expanse, expansiveness, fade in, fading, opening, recrudescence, spreading), ısınma (calefaction, heat, heating, practice, tune up, warm, warming, warmup). (various references)

Turkmen 

eremek (melt). (various references)

Ukranian 

розтоплювати (defrost, melt), розморожувати (defreeze, defrost, unfreeze), танути (defrost, evanish, melt, melt away), танення (dissolution, melting), відтавати, відлига (snowbreak). (various references)

Welsh

toddi (dissolve, melt), meirioli, dadmer (dissolve). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "thaw": thawed, thawer, thawers, thawing, thawless, thaws. (additional references)

Words containing "thaw": nighthawk, nighthawks, unthawed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Thaw" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Athwal, Khaw, othew, tahi, tahr, taiw, tauw, tawd, tawm, tchah, teaw, tha, thab, thad, thae, thag, thal, tham, thap, thau, thawd, thawe, thawn, thawt, thax, thay, thewd, thewn, thi, thiq, thow, thwe, tlaw, toaw, Toha, Tpha, traw. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: what.

-1 letter: hat, haw, taw, twa, wat, wha.

-2 letters: ah, at, aw, ha, ta.

+1 letter: swath, thaws, thraw, watch, whats, wheat, wrath.

+2 letters: swarth, swatch, swathe, swaths, thawed, thawer, thrawn, thraws, thwack, thwart, warmth, waucht, waught, wealth, wheats, withal, wraith, wraths, wrathy, wreath.

+3 letters: athwart, outwash, pathway, swarths, swarthy, swathed, swather, swathes, thawers, thawing, thrawed, thruway, thwacks, thwarts, towhead, towpath, trishaw, warmths, warpath, warthog, washout, washtub, watched, watcher, watches, wauchts, waughts, wealths, wealthy, weather, whatnot, whatsis, whatsit, wheaten, whereat, woolhat, wraiths, wrathed, wreathe, wreaths, wreathy.

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