thaw
US: /ˈθɔ/
UK: /θˈɔː/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
thaw /θɔ:/- danh từ
- sự tan (của tuyết)
- trạng thái tan băng, trạng thái tan giá (thời tiết)
- before the thaw sets in: trước khi băng tan
- (nghĩa bóng) sự mạnh dạn lên; sự hết dè dặt lạnh lùng (trong thái độ)
- ngoại động từ
- làm tan
- to thaw the thick layer of snow: làm tan lớp tuyết dày
- (nghĩa bóng) làm cho mạnh dạn lên, làm cho hết e lệ dè dặt, làm cho hết thái độ lạnh lùng
- to thaw someone: làm cho ai mạnh dạn lên, làm cho ai bớt dè dặt lạnh lùng
- làm tan
- nội động từ
- tan
- the snow thaws: tuyết tan
- ấm hơn, đỡ giá rét (có thể làm cho tuyết tan)
- it's thawing: trời đỡ giá rét hơn
- (nghĩa bóng) vui vẻ lên, cở mở hơn, hết dè dặt lạnh lùng (người)
- tan
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun+ verb
1 [V] ~ (out) (of ice and snow) to turn back into water after being frozen: The snow started to thaw as the temperature kept up. + The country was slowly thawing out after the long cold winter.
Antonym: FREEZE
2 [V] when it thaws or is thawing, the weather becomes warm enough to melt snow and ice: It's starting to thaw.
3 ~ (sth) (out) to become, or to let frozen food become, soft or liquid ready for cooking
Compare: DEFROST, DE-ICE, UNFREEZE: [V] Leave the meat to thaw completely before cooking. [often VN]
4 ~ (sth) (out) to become, or make sth become, a normal temperature after being very cold: [V] I could feel my ears and toes start to thaw out. [also VN]
5 [V] ~ (out) to become more friendly and less formal: Relations between the two countries thawed a little after the talks. + The atmosphere slowly began to thaw.
+ noun
1 [C, usually sing.] a period of warmer weather following one of cold weather, causing snow and ice to melt: The river doubles in size during the spring thaw.
2 [sing.] ~ (in sth) a situation in which the relations between two enemy countries become more friendly: a thaw in relations with China
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 Sometimes, thaw out. melt, de-ice, liquefy, defrost, warm (up), heat (up), unfreeze:
We cannot leave till the river thaws. Why not thaw out the shepherd's pie for dinner?
2 soften, warm, become (more) cordial or friendly, relax, yield, relent, bend, unbend, let (oneself) go:
After he got to know some of us better he began to thaw.
Collocation
ADJ.
rapid, sudden | spring, summer
The arctic shore remains frozen until the summer thaw.
THAW + VERB
begin, come, set in
PREP.
during a/the ~
The river often floods during the thaw.
Concise dictionary
thaws|thawed|thawingθɔːnoun
+the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
+warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt
+a relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile
verb
+become or cause to become soft or liquid
