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UK
/θˈɔːɹɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈθɔɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈθɔɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours
the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster -
warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt
they welcomed the spring thaw
How To Use thawing In A Sentence
- Would it work, after all the freezing and thawing and refreezing? GRACE
- Waxy starch gels form a paste at lower temperatures, swell with more water than regular or partially waxy starches, and don't lose water during freezing and thawing.
- They made fireless camps above timber line, thawing their meat rations with the heat of their bodies before they could eat .... weary ghosts in a dead world. “I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”
- The freezing and thawing action on clay, silty clay, and silty clay loam soils tilled in the fall or winter to produce stale seedbeds usually have excellent seedbeds for early no-till spring planting.
- The most successful of Clarence Birdseye's inventions, aside from frozen food, was appropriately enough, an infra-red heating lamp for thawing it.
- The background is the super-exposed town of Shishmaref in Western Alaska, where global warming and the thawing permafrost are collapsing towns in on themselves.
- I thought the "thawing" cliche referred to W-Martin. 10-15 years, I don't know about that. Relations
- There's never a reason to leave food thawing on the counter.
- High electric drying, high electric thawing and electroosmosis dewatering technology are novel technology, and will initiate new domain in electrostatic application.
- But now that the ice seems to be thawing, filmmakers are prepared to overlook the fact that the efforts are largely unidirectional.