Thaw

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To gradually cause (something frozen, such as earth, ice, or snow) to melt or soften by raising the temperature.

   “Sette the potte to the fyre to thawe the water: […]”

2. fiil To gradually cause (someone or something that is very cold) to warm up.

   “[M]y very lippes might freeze to my teeth, my tongue to the roofe of my mouth, my heart in my belly, ere I ſhould come by a fire to thavv me, […]”

3. fiil To cause (something inactive) to become active; also, to cause (something unfeeling) to have feelings.

   “[N]ovv my loue is thavv'd, / VVhich like a vvaxen Image 'gainſt a fire / Beares no impreſſion of the thing it vvas.”

4. fiil To cause (someone or their feelings that are reserved or unfriendly) to become friendly or gentle.
5. fiil To cause (something rigid) to become limp.

   “"Speak aloud, my lord," said Elizabeth, "and at farther distance, so please you—your breath thaws our ruff. What have you to ask of us?"”

6. fiil Of something frozen, such as earth, ice, or snow: to gradually melt or soften as a result of the temperature being raised.

   “the ice thaws”

7. fiil Of someone or something that is very cold: to gradually warm up.

   “The bog's green harper, thawing from his sleep, / Twangs a hoarse note and tried a shortened leap; […]”

8. fiil With the dummy pronoun it: of the weather: to become sufficiently warm for ice, snow, etc., to melt.

   “It’s beginning to thaw.”

9. fiil Of a person or their feelings that are reserved or unfriendly: to become friendly or gentle.

   “Her anger has thawed.”

10. fiil Of something inactive: to become active; also, of something unfeeling: to develop feelings.
11. isim A gradual melting or softening of something frozen (such as earth, ice, or snow) when the temperature rises; the transformation of something frozen into a fluid or semifluid.
12. isim A gradual warming up of someone or something that is very cold.

    “raging floods pursue their hasty thaw; / Our thaw was mild , the cold not chased away”

13. isim Of something inactive: an act of becoming active; also, of something unfeeling: an act of developing feelings.
14. isim Of a person who is reserved or unfriendly: an act of becoming friendly or gentle.
15. isim A period of relaxation of restrictions in a country or state; also, a period of increased friendliness or understanding, or of reduced hostility or tension in relations, between states.
16. isim A period of weather warm enough to melt ice, snow, etc.
17. özel isim A river in South Wales which flows into the Bristol Channel at Aberthaw.
18. özel isim A surname from Burmese.