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Melting vs Appealing - What's the difference?

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Melting is a related term of appealing.


As verbs the difference between melting and appealing

is that melting is while appealing is .

As adjectives the difference between melting and appealing

is that melting is which is melting, dissolving or liquefying while appealing is having appeal; attractive.

As nouns the difference between melting and appealing

is that melting is the process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point while appealing is the act of making an appeal.

melting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.
  • 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 [...]?

    Noun

    (wikipedia melting) (en noun)
  • The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
  • *{{quote-magazine, title=The climate of Tibet: Pole-land
    • , date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80 , magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=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.}}

    appealing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having appeal; attractive.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Michael Riordan , title=Tackling Infinity , volume=100, issue=1, page=86 , magazine= citation , passage=Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains. Getting rid of these nagging infinities has probably occupied far more effort than was spent in originating the theories.}}
  • *{{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=September 7 , author=Dominic Fifield , title=England start World Cup campaign with five-goal romp against Moldova , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Those were all landmark moments to cherish. Just as appealing was the manner in which Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Milner cut swathes down either flank, albeit through flustered full-backs who had looked poorly positioned and horribly jittery from the start. }}

    Derived terms

    * appealingly

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of making an appeal.
  • * 1866 , Heros von Borcke, Memoirs of the Confederate War for independence
    • The fair creature abandoned her position, and in the midst of her bitter tears and pathetic appealings , which my sense of duty alone enabled me to resist, I bore my prisoner off.

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