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Definitions: Thawing |
ThawingNoun1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "thawing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1599. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Chemical Industry | In dynamiting, warming to reduce risk of premature explosion which might originate from rupture of frozen crystal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Changing free water, or contained water as in foods, from solid to liquid phase by addition of heat. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | Melting of ice or snow. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A method of working permanently frozen ground in which water at a temperature of from 50 to 60 degrees F (10 to 15.6 degrees C) is pumped through pipes down into the frozen gravel. The pipes through which the water is pumped are called sweaters. See also:steam thawing; thaw pipe b. In dynamiting, warming to reduce risk of premature explosion that might originate from rupture of frozen crystal. Performed in thaw house or thawing kettle using steam or hot water. With modern methods of explosivemanufacture, the need has practically disappeared. (references) |
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Synonyms: ThawingSynonyms: melt (n), melting (n), thaw (n), warming (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Thawing |
| English words defined with "thawing": convenience food, corn snow, Cradle hole ♦ melt, melting ♦ thaw, Thawy. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "thawing": active layer ♦ bank slope stability ♦ cave-in lake, cryogenic lake, cryoprotectant ♦ intracellular resorption ♦ snow remover, SNOW SHOVELER, steam thawing ♦ Thaw, thaw house, thaw lake, thawing kettle, thermokarst lake ♦ UTILITY WORKER, PRODUCTION, utility worker, virus. (references) |
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Screenplays | Very well, begin the thawing of Jim Nabors! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Thawing out the pump.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | What is man but a mass of thawing clay? |
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| "Thawing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 79.31% of the time. "Thawing" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 79.31% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.34% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.9% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "thawing": it is thawing. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "thawing": thawing-out. | |
Ending with "thawing": part-thawing. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
meat thawing | 6 |
chicken thawing | 4 |
thawing turkey | 4 |
breast milk thawing | 4 |
thawing | 2 |
chicken frozen thawing | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "thawing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 解冻 (thaw, thawed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | toebrud, toe (thaw), optynding, optoening, optøning (breakup season). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ontdooien van dynamiet, ontdooien (de-icing, melt, thaw), dooi (melting, thaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sulatus (defreezing, de-icing, melt), sulaminen (ablation, fusion, melting, searing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ramollissement, fonte, degel, décongélation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | tauend, Tauen (dew, melt, thaw, to dew), Auftauen (defrost, loosen up, melt, thaw, to defrost, to thaw, unbend, unfreeze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παγόλυση. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מסמוס (crushing, maceration, melting, squeezing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scongelamento, disgelo (thaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 霜解け (thaw), 雪解け (snow thaw), 氷解 (melting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しもどけ (thaw), ひょうかい (block of ice, frozen sea, ice floe, icy waters, illustration by tables, lump of ice, melting), ゆきどけ (snow thaw, thawing of snow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 해빙. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | theinniuagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | awingthay descongelamento (defrosting, snowbreak, thaw), descongelação (snowbreak), degelo (melting, snowbreak, thaw). (various references) se dezgheţa (it is thawing, thaw). (various references) deshielo (breakup, breakup season, ice run, melting, snowbreak, thaw), descongelación de la dinamita, descongelación. (various references) töväder (melting, thaw), upptining, snösmältning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Thawing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: thawn, thewing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "thawing" (pronounced thô"ing) |
| 3 | -ô" i ng | clawing, drawing, gnawing, hawing, lawing, redrawing, sawing, withdrawing. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-n-t-w" | |
-1 letter: hating, hawing, tawing. | |
-2 letters: awing, giant, night, thing, twain, twang, whang, wigan, wight, witan. | |
-3 letters: agin, anti, gain, gait, ghat, gnat, gnaw, hang, hant, hint, hwan, nigh, tain, tang, than, thaw, thin, ting, twig, twin, wain, wait, want, what, whig, whin, whit, wing, with. | |
-4 letters: ain, ait, ani, ant, awn, gan, gat, ghi, gin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-n-t-w" | |
+1 letter: swathing, thrawing, watching, wrathing. | |
+2 letters: nighthawk, nightwear, thwacking, thwarting, wauchting, waughting, wreathing. | |
+3 letters: antigrowth, enswathing, inswathing, nighthawks, unswathing, wainwright, weathering. | |
+4 letters: antiwhaling, enwreathing, handwriting, nightwalker, outwatching, showboating, tomahawking, unwreathing, wainwrights, watchmaking, weatherings, withdrawing. | |
+5 letters: bantamweight, cartwheeling, flowcharting, handwritings, heartwarming, nightwalkers, watchdogging, watchmakings, weatherizing, whitewashing, withstanding. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 68 61 77 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .... .- .--. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01101000 01100001 01110111 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T h a w i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0068 0061 0077 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54746789758073 |
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