Definition of thaw in English:

thaw

verb θɔːθɔ

[no object]

1(of ice, snow, or another frozen substance, such as food) become liquid or soft as a result of warming up.
（冰、雪等）融化，融解；（冷冻食品等）解冻；化冻
the river thawed and barges of food began to reach the capital
河流解冻后，一船船的食品开始运抵首都。
Example sentencesExamples
- If you're using a frozen vegetable package from the store, turn the heat up a bit so that the vegetables thaw and the flavour can infuse itself into the vegetables.
- And any remaining snow is likely to thaw - swelling already brimming rivers - as record high temperatures are also predicted.
- Tightly wrap meat, poultry and fish so the juices don't drip on other food as they thaw in the refrigerator.
- Jack was already making his way across the lawn towards the lake, which had thawed out in the warmer weather.
- Add the frozen vegetables, garlic and ginger and cook for two minutes, until the vegetables thaw.
- On one occasion we were snowed in and the four boys all had chicken pox so we moved out to a rented cottage in Roxburgh until the snow thawed.
- There's never a reason to leave food thawing on the counter.
- Foods which are still partially frozen or have thawed but are still cold to the touch (40 degrees or lower) can safely be refrozen.
- But closer study at the nearby University of Alaska revealed an assortment of bacterial cells, many of which came to life as soon as the ice thawed.
- Or they abandoned ship altogether and slogged to shore, hoping to regain their vessels when the ice thawed.
- Meanwhile, it is hoped temperatures will rise for long enough to allow the snow and ice to thaw before the next freeze sets in.
- Lily bulbs can go into the ground as soon as the soil has thawed.
- Shackleton and his 28-man crew waited, immobilized, in the hope that the ice would eventually thaw, but after ten months the ship was destroyed by ice pressure.
- I am aware that mastodons once walked where I walk, that the seemingly solid ground under my feet has frozen and thawed (and will re-freeze and re-thaw) over eons.
- When the ice thawed, the Messerschmitt sank and remained at the bottom of the lake until recovered by Pearce.
- Whether it's global warming or just Klondike weirdness, the Klondike River thawed and rose 2 metres in December.
- The crunch-crunch of the icy grass is music to my ears, as I walk on it before the frost has thawed.
- 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.
- Thankfully two weeks later, after the snow had thawed, they happily celebrated their wedding anniversary among family and friends.
- When I left the hospital, the snow was already thawing, and water dripped from roofs and gutters everywhere.
Synonyms
defrost
1. 1.1it thaws", "it is thawing, etc. The weather becomes warmer and causes snow and ice to melt.
  Example sentencesExamples
  But of the state of the pitch, he recalls: ‘During the week, it had snowed, then thawed and then frozen again and there was ice under all that water on the surface.’
  Today was much warmer and consequently it thawed and roads became very muddy, just as if a heavy rain had fallen.
  Synonyms
  melt, unfreeze, soften, liquefy, dissolve
  North American unthaw
2. 1.2with object Make (something) warm enough to become liquid or soft.
  使融化，使融解；使解冻；使化冻
  European exporters simply thawed their beef before unloading
  欧洲的出口商们仅是在卸货前把牛肉解冻。
  Example sentencesExamples
  We put the mince in the sink to thaw it out, and I didn't use all the meat.
  The best way to thaw a frozen chicken is not in the microwave, but in the refrigerator or in cold water.
  If they are not thawed properly harmful bugs will survive the cooking process.
  Two years later, the cancer treatment having proved a success, the tissue was thawed and reimplanted.
  The most successful of Clarence Birdseye's inventions, aside from frozen food, was appropriately enough, an infra-red heating lamp for thawing it.
  When the disease surfaced in the Central Kentucky Thoroughbred community in May 1984, the vaccine was thawed and distributed.
  To use, thaw the dough in the fridge until it is soft enough to handle.
  Start thawing the turkey and avoid the biggest Christmas nightmare of all - food poisoning.
  Frozen vegetables with a high water content tend to collapse and turn mushy when thawed unless cooked before freezing.
  They are then taken to the preparation area, where they are thawed and labelled.
  The sun's gentle rays were thawing the winter ice. Nature was just beginning to blossom, after a period of dormancy.
  Tissues stored in liquid nitrogen were thawed at room temperature.
  They were then thawed, their soft tissues removed, dried in an oven at 60°C for 72 hours and weighed.
  Freezing and thawing raw fish will be the death of sushi and sashimi as we know it.
  Any leftover soup can be frozen and thawed to enjoy on a winter afternoon.
  Trufresh, a Connecticut company, has found that its lobsters sometimes come back to life after they've been frozen and then thawed.
  If you use a microwave to thaw or warm baby food, be sure to stir the food well to avoid hot pockets.
  Now, Kyra, most of the questions are about fairly basic things like what's a safe way to thaw a turkey, what's a good way to roast turkey.
  Do not refreeze thawed cheese since the eating quality will be poor.
  After the treatment, the ovarian tissue was thawed and implanted back into her pelvis.
3. 1.3 (of a part of the body) become warm enough to stop feeling numb.
  使（身体等）变得暖起来
  Riven began to feel his ears and toes thaw out
  里文开始觉得双耳和脚指头暖和起来了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dylan stays only long enough for his legs to thaw and then leaves.
  I squeezed in between two people and let my fingers and toes thaw out.
4. 1.4 Make or become friendlier or more cordial.
  变得随和（或缓和）；变得不拘束，变得友善
  no object she thawed out sufficiently to allow a smile to appear
  她变得随和了一些，并露出了笑容。
  Example sentencesExamples
  By 1985, it had been 30 years since Gillespie's last visit to the island, and finally the political mood had thawed enough to allow another trip to take place.
  Max had finally thawed out again, and he smiled, and said, ‘Such zealotry for your country.’
  These relations thawed somewhat with the conclusion of formal hostilities in Korea and the death of Joseph Stalin.
  In the Gorbachev era, relations thawed somewhat as high officials exchanged visits and the Soviet Union reduced its Far East nuclear forces and troops, but fundamental differences remained unchanged when the Soviet Union dissolved.
  Synonyms
  become friendlier, become more genial, become more sociable, loosen up, relax, become more relaxed

noun θɔːθɔ

1A period of warmer weather that thaws ice and snow.
解冻时期（或季节）
the thaw came yesterday afternoon
昨天下午冰雪开始解冻。
Example sentencesExamples
- The thaw had made it too warm for snow, and so rain began to fall instead, cold and stinging.
- Despite a thaw in the weather, the road remained closed until the signs and bollards were removed and dumped at the roadside.
- It took five weeks for a significant thaw to take effect and remnants of the snow remained in the mountain ravines for several months.
- The plants' cell walls will thicken, which helps keep them from bursting during freezes and thaws.
- Mid-March did not see the thaw in the weather that people had hoped for.
- After a lapse of some weeks a gradual thaw commenced, but due to the volume of snow to be disposed of, opening of roads to transport was delayed and it was several weeks before normal travel could be resumed.
- These instruments sense the electrical properties of water in the landscape, allowing scientists to determine exactly when and where the springtime thaw occurs.
- As they brace themselves for the big thaw following this week's snowfall, the people of York might not have needed a reminder of flooding.
- The thaw will continue today and tomorrow, according to Steve Randall, a Met Office forecaster.
- But such is the capricious side to April's weather that the sun shone the following day and a rapid thaw set in turning the snow-laden streets into water courses.
- Later on in the morning, when it was clear that the snow flurries had finished and that a slight thaw was setting in, I got tired of sitting at the window looking out.
- Were you fully aware that some frogs in Europe and North America routinely freeze in winter and return to life with the spring thaw?
- Inevitably the cold snap was followed by the big thaw, several inches of snow disappearing in a matter of hours on New Year's Eve, and the floods were soon with us once again.
- The thaw after heavy snowfall meant that plumbers were inundated with calls to repair burst pipes.
- Meanwhile the big thaw and heavy rainfall left North Yorkshire drivers tackling roads covered in water.
- A vast expanse of western Siberia is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warned yesterday.
- She skated, not seeing the other skaters around her as she wove among them, but seeing again the dark pine forest that lay in the lower mountains in the north of Alresh, where she had skated last, just before the spring thaw.
- ‘If we had say four inches of snow up in the dales, followed by a thaw and heavy rainfall, that would put our flood defences to a severe test,’ admits John.
- He had gone with Keith to paint in the Yosemite Valley when the spring thaw had swollen the famous waterfalls.
- Weather forecasters said a thaw would get under way today.
- However, by tomorrow snow is expected to turn to rain as the thaw begins.
1. 1.1 An increase in friendliness or cordiality.
  （关系、态度等）缓和
  a thaw in relations between the USA and the USSR
  美国和苏联关系的解冻。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The thaw in relations also removed a three-year ban on bilateral sporting events in October 2003.
  There had been something of a thaw in relations between democrats and Beijing recently.
  The series is being revived after a recent thaw in relations between the two countries.
  Since the June summit, a flurry of private and official talks between the two Koreas has produced a thaw in relations.
  But the sudden thaw in relations between the two sides could not guarantee that the eight-day strike planned to start on Friday would be called off.
  The signs of a thaw in US relations with these and other countries point to a different approach emerging in Washington.
  By yesterday things were brightening up weatherwise, but there was still no sign of a thaw in relations with locals.
  And now, in the light of the recent thaw in relations between Libya and the West, Scotland Yard detectives have agreed to carry her plea to the ears of the dictator.
  Stalin's death, the rise of a new leadership, and the end of the Korean war seemed to augur a thaw in US-Soviet relations.
  The organizers had hoped to get the two leaders to build on the thaw in their relations that began some two weeks ago in Abuja.
  But for now, a thaw in Cuban-American relations remains a pipe dream.
  Almost three years later, the hopes for a thaw in relations raised by his visit are finally being realized.
  Maddie might soon swing back to being emotionally distant, but the current thaw in their relations is a positive beginning.
  The North-South thaw has produced a groundswell of positive sentiment in Korea, bitterly divided for so long.
  In 2000, the Indian government banned all home and away cricket against Pakistan but the policy was changed in 2003 after a thaw in relations.
  A thaw in the frosty relationship between the two countries looks remote.
  So the recent thaw in North-South relations, while encouraging, doesn't change his mind.
  He added that after a slow thaw in relations which began last year, it was only now that the Sudanese information was being properly examined for the first time.
  Not only does this help US commanders but it could herald a thaw in the relationship with Moscow.
  There is a hopeful precedent: the 1999 earthquakes that affected both countries led to a thaw in relations between them.
  One can only hope that the recent thaw in Indo-Pakistan relations will usher in a new era on the sub-continent.

Origin

Old English thawian (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch dooien. The noun (first recorded in Middle English) developed its figurative use in the mid 19th century.

Rhymes

abhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your

Definition of thaw in US English:

thaw

verbTHôθɔ

[no object]

1(of ice, snow, or another frozen substance, such as food) become liquid or soft as a result of warming.
（冰、雪等）融化，融解；（冷冻食品等）解冻；化冻
the river thawed and barges of food began to reach the capital
河流解冻后，一船船的食品开始运抵首都。
Example sentencesExamples
- But closer study at the nearby University of Alaska revealed an assortment of bacterial cells, many of which came to life as soon as the ice thawed.
- When the ice thawed, the Messerschmitt sank and remained at the bottom of the lake until recovered by Pearce.
- Shackleton and his 28-man crew waited, immobilized, in the hope that the ice would eventually thaw, but after ten months the ship was destroyed by ice pressure.
- Jack was already making his way across the lawn towards the lake, which had thawed out in the warmer weather.
- Lily bulbs can go into the ground as soon as the soil has thawed.
- There's never a reason to leave food thawing on the counter.
- Tightly wrap meat, poultry and fish so the juices don't drip on other food as they thaw in the refrigerator.
- I am aware that mastodons once walked where I walk, that the seemingly solid ground under my feet has frozen and thawed (and will re-freeze and re-thaw) over eons.
- Thankfully two weeks later, after the snow had thawed, they happily celebrated their wedding anniversary among family and friends.
- Add the frozen vegetables, garlic and ginger and cook for two minutes, until the vegetables thaw.
- The crunch-crunch of the icy grass is music to my ears, as I walk on it before the frost has thawed.
- Foods which are still partially frozen or have thawed but are still cold to the touch (40 degrees or lower) can safely be refrozen.
- Meanwhile, it is hoped temperatures will rise for long enough to allow the snow and ice to thaw before the next freeze sets in.
- On one occasion we were snowed in and the four boys all had chicken pox so we moved out to a rented cottage in Roxburgh until the snow thawed.
- 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.
- If you're using a frozen vegetable package from the store, turn the heat up a bit so that the vegetables thaw and the flavour can infuse itself into the vegetables.
- And any remaining snow is likely to thaw - swelling already brimming rivers - as record high temperatures are also predicted.
- When I left the hospital, the snow was already thawing, and water dripped from roofs and gutters everywhere.
- Or they abandoned ship altogether and slogged to shore, hoping to regain their vessels when the ice thawed.
- Whether it's global warming or just Klondike weirdness, the Klondike River thawed and rose 2 metres in December.
Synonyms
defrost
1. 1.1it thaws", "it is thawing, etc. The weather becomes warmer and melts snow and ice.
  （天气）转暖使冰雪融化
  Example sentencesExamples
  Today was much warmer and consequently it thawed and roads became very muddy, just as if a heavy rain had fallen.
  But of the state of the pitch, he recalls: ‘During the week, it had snowed, then thawed and then frozen again and there was ice under all that water on the surface.’
  Synonyms
  melt, unfreeze, soften, liquefy, dissolve
2. 1.2with object Make (something) warm enough to become liquid or soft.
  使融化，使融解；使解冻；使化冻
  European exporters simply thawed their beef before unloading
  欧洲的出口商们仅是在卸货前把牛肉解冻。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They were then thawed, their soft tissues removed, dried in an oven at 60°C for 72 hours and weighed.
  When the disease surfaced in the Central Kentucky Thoroughbred community in May 1984, the vaccine was thawed and distributed.
  Do not refreeze thawed cheese since the eating quality will be poor.
  To use, thaw the dough in the fridge until it is soft enough to handle.
  The most successful of Clarence Birdseye's inventions, aside from frozen food, was appropriately enough, an infra-red heating lamp for thawing it.
  If you use a microwave to thaw or warm baby food, be sure to stir the food well to avoid hot pockets.
  The sun's gentle rays were thawing the winter ice. Nature was just beginning to blossom, after a period of dormancy.
  Any leftover soup can be frozen and thawed to enjoy on a winter afternoon.
  Freezing and thawing raw fish will be the death of sushi and sashimi as we know it.
  We put the mince in the sink to thaw it out, and I didn't use all the meat.
  They are then taken to the preparation area, where they are thawed and labelled.
  Two years later, the cancer treatment having proved a success, the tissue was thawed and reimplanted.
  Tissues stored in liquid nitrogen were thawed at room temperature.
  Frozen vegetables with a high water content tend to collapse and turn mushy when thawed unless cooked before freezing.
  Trufresh, a Connecticut company, has found that its lobsters sometimes come back to life after they've been frozen and then thawed.
  Now, Kyra, most of the questions are about fairly basic things like what's a safe way to thaw a turkey, what's a good way to roast turkey.
  If they are not thawed properly harmful bugs will survive the cooking process.
  Start thawing the turkey and avoid the biggest Christmas nightmare of all - food poisoning.
  After the treatment, the ovarian tissue was thawed and implanted back into her pelvis.
  The best way to thaw a frozen chicken is not in the microwave, but in the refrigerator or in cold water.
3. 1.3 (of a part of the body) become warm enough to stop feeling numb.
  使（身体等）变得暖起来
  Ryan began to feel his ears and toes thaw out
  里文开始觉得双耳和脚指头暖和起来了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I squeezed in between two people and let my fingers and toes thaw out.
  Dylan stays only long enough for his legs to thaw and then leaves.
4. 1.4 Make or become friendlier or more cordial.
  变得随和（或缓和）；变得不拘束，变得友善
  no object she thawed out sufficiently to allow a smile to appear
  她变得随和了一些，并露出了笑容。
  Example sentencesExamples
  These relations thawed somewhat with the conclusion of formal hostilities in Korea and the death of Joseph Stalin.
  Max had finally thawed out again, and he smiled, and said, ‘Such zealotry for your country.’
  In the Gorbachev era, relations thawed somewhat as high officials exchanged visits and the Soviet Union reduced its Far East nuclear forces and troops, but fundamental differences remained unchanged when the Soviet Union dissolved.
  By 1985, it had been 30 years since Gillespie's last visit to the island, and finally the political mood had thawed enough to allow another trip to take place.
  Synonyms
  become friendlier, become more genial, become more sociable, loosen up, relax, become more relaxed

nounTHôθɔ

1A period of warmer weather that thaws ice and snow.
解冻时期（或季节）
the thaw came yesterday afternoon
昨天下午冰雪开始解冻。
Example sentencesExamples
- The thaw after heavy snowfall meant that plumbers were inundated with calls to repair burst pipes.
- Were you fully aware that some frogs in Europe and North America routinely freeze in winter and return to life with the spring thaw?
- ‘If we had say four inches of snow up in the dales, followed by a thaw and heavy rainfall, that would put our flood defences to a severe test,’ admits John.
- The thaw will continue today and tomorrow, according to Steve Randall, a Met Office forecaster.
- A vast expanse of western Siberia is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warned yesterday.
- She skated, not seeing the other skaters around her as she wove among them, but seeing again the dark pine forest that lay in the lower mountains in the north of Alresh, where she had skated last, just before the spring thaw.
- Despite a thaw in the weather, the road remained closed until the signs and bollards were removed and dumped at the roadside.
- The thaw had made it too warm for snow, and so rain began to fall instead, cold and stinging.
- After a lapse of some weeks a gradual thaw commenced, but due to the volume of snow to be disposed of, opening of roads to transport was delayed and it was several weeks before normal travel could be resumed.
- It took five weeks for a significant thaw to take effect and remnants of the snow remained in the mountain ravines for several months.
- He had gone with Keith to paint in the Yosemite Valley when the spring thaw had swollen the famous waterfalls.
- But such is the capricious side to April's weather that the sun shone the following day and a rapid thaw set in turning the snow-laden streets into water courses.
- These instruments sense the electrical properties of water in the landscape, allowing scientists to determine exactly when and where the springtime thaw occurs.
- Later on in the morning, when it was clear that the snow flurries had finished and that a slight thaw was setting in, I got tired of sitting at the window looking out.
- Mid-March did not see the thaw in the weather that people had hoped for.
- Weather forecasters said a thaw would get under way today.
- However, by tomorrow snow is expected to turn to rain as the thaw begins.
- As they brace themselves for the big thaw following this week's snowfall, the people of York might not have needed a reminder of flooding.
- Meanwhile the big thaw and heavy rainfall left North Yorkshire drivers tackling roads covered in water.
- Inevitably the cold snap was followed by the big thaw, several inches of snow disappearing in a matter of hours on New Year's Eve, and the floods were soon with us once again.
- The plants' cell walls will thicken, which helps keep them from bursting during freezes and thaws.
1. 1.1 An increase in friendliness or cordiality.
  （关系、态度等）缓和
  a thaw in relations between the two countries
  美国和苏联关系的解冻。
  Example sentencesExamples
  There is a hopeful precedent: the 1999 earthquakes that affected both countries led to a thaw in relations between them.
  A thaw in the frosty relationship between the two countries looks remote.
  Maddie might soon swing back to being emotionally distant, but the current thaw in their relations is a positive beginning.
  Since the June summit, a flurry of private and official talks between the two Koreas has produced a thaw in relations.
  By yesterday things were brightening up weatherwise, but there was still no sign of a thaw in relations with locals.
  The signs of a thaw in US relations with these and other countries point to a different approach emerging in Washington.
  There had been something of a thaw in relations between democrats and Beijing recently.
  The series is being revived after a recent thaw in relations between the two countries.
  But the sudden thaw in relations between the two sides could not guarantee that the eight-day strike planned to start on Friday would be called off.
  So the recent thaw in North-South relations, while encouraging, doesn't change his mind.
  Almost three years later, the hopes for a thaw in relations raised by his visit are finally being realized.
  The thaw in relations also removed a three-year ban on bilateral sporting events in October 2003.
  The North-South thaw has produced a groundswell of positive sentiment in Korea, bitterly divided for so long.
  The organizers had hoped to get the two leaders to build on the thaw in their relations that began some two weeks ago in Abuja.
  Not only does this help US commanders but it could herald a thaw in the relationship with Moscow.
  He added that after a slow thaw in relations which began last year, it was only now that the Sudanese information was being properly examined for the first time.
  But for now, a thaw in Cuban-American relations remains a pipe dream.
  And now, in the light of the recent thaw in relations between Libya and the West, Scotland Yard detectives have agreed to carry her plea to the ears of the dictator.
  In 2000, the Indian government banned all home and away cricket against Pakistan but the policy was changed in 2003 after a thaw in relations.
  Stalin's death, the rise of a new leadership, and the end of the Korean war seemed to augur a thaw in US-Soviet relations.
  One can only hope that the recent thaw in Indo-Pakistan relations will usher in a new era on the sub-continent.

Origin

Old English thawian (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch dooien. The noun (first recorded in Middle English) developed its figurative use in the mid 19th century.

单词	thaw
释义	Definition of thaw in English: thaw verb θɔːθɔ [no object] 1(of ice, snow, or another frozen substance, such as food) become liquid or soft as a result of warming up. （冰、雪等）融化，融解；（冷冻食品等）解冻；化冻 the river thawed and barges of food began to reach the capital 河流解冻后，一船船的食品开始运抵首都。 Example sentencesExamples If you're using a frozen vegetable package from the store, turn the heat up a bit so that the vegetables thaw and the flavour can infuse itself into the vegetables. And any remaining snow is likely to thaw - swelling already brimming rivers - as record high temperatures are also predicted. Tightly wrap meat, poultry and fish so the juices don't drip on other food as they thaw in the refrigerator. Jack was already making his way across the lawn towards the lake, which had thawed out in the warmer weather. Add the frozen vegetables, garlic and ginger and cook for two minutes, until the vegetables thaw. On one occasion we were snowed in and the four boys all had chicken pox so we moved out to a rented cottage in Roxburgh until the snow thawed. There's never a reason to leave food thawing on the counter. Foods which are still partially frozen or have thawed but are still cold to the touch (40 degrees or lower) can safely be refrozen. But closer study at the nearby University of Alaska revealed an assortment of bacterial cells, many of which came to life as soon as the ice thawed. Or they abandoned ship altogether and slogged to shore, hoping to regain their vessels when the ice thawed. Meanwhile, it is hoped temperatures will rise for long enough to allow the snow and ice to thaw before the next freeze sets in. Lily bulbs can go into the ground as soon as the soil has thawed. Shackleton and his 28-man crew waited, immobilized, in the hope that the ice would eventually thaw, but after ten months the ship was destroyed by ice pressure. I am aware that mastodons once walked where I walk, that the seemingly solid ground under my feet has frozen and thawed (and will re-freeze and re-thaw) over eons. When the ice thawed, the Messerschmitt sank and remained at the bottom of the lake until recovered by Pearce. Whether it's global warming or just Klondike weirdness, the Klondike River thawed and rose 2 metres in December. The crunch-crunch of the icy grass is music to my ears, as I walk on it before the frost has thawed. 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. Thankfully two weeks later, after the snow had thawed, they happily celebrated their wedding anniversary among family and friends. When I left the hospital, the snow was already thawing, and water dripped from roofs and gutters everywhere. Synonyms defrost 1.1it thaws", "it is thawing, etc. The weather becomes warmer and causes snow and ice to melt. Example sentencesExamples But of the state of the pitch, he recalls: ‘During the week, it had snowed, then thawed and then frozen again and there was ice under all that water on the surface.’ Today was much warmer and consequently it thawed and roads became very muddy, just as if a heavy rain had fallen. Synonyms melt, unfreeze, soften, liquefy, dissolve North American unthaw 1.2with object Make (something) warm enough to become liquid or soft. 使融化，使融解；使解冻；使化冻 European exporters simply thawed their beef before unloading 欧洲的出口商们仅是在卸货前把牛肉解冻。 Example sentencesExamples We put the mince in the sink to thaw it out, and I didn't use all the meat. The best way to thaw a frozen chicken is not in the microwave, but in the refrigerator or in cold water. If they are not thawed properly harmful bugs will survive the cooking process. Two years later, the cancer treatment having proved a success, the tissue was thawed and reimplanted. The most successful of Clarence Birdseye's inventions, aside from frozen food, was appropriately enough, an infra-red heating lamp for thawing it. When the disease surfaced in the Central Kentucky Thoroughbred community in May 1984, the vaccine was thawed and distributed. To use, thaw the dough in the fridge until it is soft enough to handle. Start thawing the turkey and avoid the biggest Christmas nightmare of all - food poisoning. Frozen vegetables with a high water content tend to collapse and turn mushy when thawed unless cooked before freezing. They are then taken to the preparation area, where they are thawed and labelled. The sun's gentle rays were thawing the winter ice. Nature was just beginning to blossom, after a period of dormancy. Tissues stored in liquid nitrogen were thawed at room temperature. They were then thawed, their soft tissues removed, dried in an oven at 60°C for 72 hours and weighed. Freezing and thawing raw fish will be the death of sushi and sashimi as we know it. Any leftover soup can be frozen and thawed to enjoy on a winter afternoon. Trufresh, a Connecticut company, has found that its lobsters sometimes come back to life after they've been frozen and then thawed. If you use a microwave to thaw or warm baby food, be sure to stir the food well to avoid hot pockets. Now, Kyra, most of the questions are about fairly basic things like what's a safe way to thaw a turkey, what's a good way to roast turkey. Do not refreeze thawed cheese since the eating quality will be poor. After the treatment, the ovarian tissue was thawed and implanted back into her pelvis. 1.3 (of a part of the body) become warm enough to stop feeling numb. 使（身体等）变得暖起来 Riven began to feel his ears and toes thaw out 里文开始觉得双耳和脚指头暖和起来了。 Example sentencesExamples Dylan stays only long enough for his legs to thaw and then leaves. I squeezed in between two people and let my fingers and toes thaw out. 1.4 Make or become friendlier or more cordial. 变得随和（或缓和）；变得不拘束，变得友善 no object she thawed out sufficiently to allow a smile to appear 她变得随和了一些，并露出了笑容。 Example sentencesExamples By 1985, it had been 30 years since Gillespie's last visit to the island, and finally the political mood had thawed enough to allow another trip to take place. Max had finally thawed out again, and he smiled, and said, ‘Such zealotry for your country.’ These relations thawed somewhat with the conclusion of formal hostilities in Korea and the death of Joseph Stalin. In the Gorbachev era, relations thawed somewhat as high officials exchanged visits and the Soviet Union reduced its Far East nuclear forces and troops, but fundamental differences remained unchanged when the Soviet Union dissolved. Synonyms become friendlier, become more genial, become more sociable, loosen up, relax, become more relaxed noun θɔːθɔ 1A period of warmer weather that thaws ice and snow. 解冻时期（或季节） the thaw came yesterday afternoon 昨天下午冰雪开始解冻。 Example sentencesExamples The thaw had made it too warm for snow, and so rain began to fall instead, cold and stinging. Despite a thaw in the weather, the road remained closed until the signs and bollards were removed and dumped at the roadside. It took five weeks for a significant thaw to take effect and remnants of the snow remained in the mountain ravines for several months. The plants' cell walls will thicken, which helps keep them from bursting during freezes and thaws. Mid-March did not see the thaw in the weather that people had hoped for. After a lapse of some weeks a gradual thaw commenced, but due to the volume of snow to be disposed of, opening of roads to transport was delayed and it was several weeks before normal travel could be resumed. These instruments sense the electrical properties of water in the landscape, allowing scientists to determine exactly when and where the springtime thaw occurs. As they brace themselves for the big thaw following this week's snowfall, the people of York might not have needed a reminder of flooding. The thaw will continue today and tomorrow, according to Steve Randall, a Met Office forecaster. But such is the capricious side to April's weather that the sun shone the following day and a rapid thaw set in turning the snow-laden streets into water courses. Later on in the morning, when it was clear that the snow flurries had finished and that a slight thaw was setting in, I got tired of sitting at the window looking out. Were you fully aware that some frogs in Europe and North America routinely freeze in winter and return to life with the spring thaw? Inevitably the cold snap was followed by the big thaw, several inches of snow disappearing in a matter of hours on New Year's Eve, and the floods were soon with us once again. The thaw after heavy snowfall meant that plumbers were inundated with calls to repair burst pipes. Meanwhile the big thaw and heavy rainfall left North Yorkshire drivers tackling roads covered in water. A vast expanse of western Siberia is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warned yesterday. She skated, not seeing the other skaters around her as she wove among them, but seeing again the dark pine forest that lay in the lower mountains in the north of Alresh, where she had skated last, just before the spring thaw. ‘If we had say four inches of snow up in the dales, followed by a thaw and heavy rainfall, that would put our flood defences to a severe test,’ admits John. He had gone with Keith to paint in the Yosemite Valley when the spring thaw had swollen the famous waterfalls. Weather forecasters said a thaw would get under way today. However, by tomorrow snow is expected to turn to rain as the thaw begins. 1.1 An increase in friendliness or cordiality. （关系、态度等）缓和 a thaw in relations between the USA and the USSR 美国和苏联关系的解冻。 Example sentencesExamples The thaw in relations also removed a three-year ban on bilateral sporting events in October 2003. There had been something of a thaw in relations between democrats and Beijing recently. The series is being revived after a recent thaw in relations between the two countries. Since the June summit, a flurry of private and official talks between the two Koreas has produced a thaw in relations. But the sudden thaw in relations between the two sides could not guarantee that the eight-day strike planned to start on Friday would be called off. The signs of a thaw in US relations with these and other countries point to a different approach emerging in Washington. By yesterday things were brightening up weatherwise, but there was still no sign of a thaw in relations with locals. And now, in the light of the recent thaw in relations between Libya and the West, Scotland Yard detectives have agreed to carry her plea to the ears of the dictator. Stalin's death, the rise of a new leadership, and the end of the Korean war seemed to augur a thaw in US-Soviet relations. The organizers had hoped to get the two leaders to build on the thaw in their relations that began some two weeks ago in Abuja. But for now, a thaw in Cuban-American relations remains a pipe dream. Almost three years later, the hopes for a thaw in relations raised by his visit are finally being realized. Maddie might soon swing back to being emotionally distant, but the current thaw in their relations is a positive beginning. The North-South thaw has produced a groundswell of positive sentiment in Korea, bitterly divided for so long. In 2000, the Indian government banned all home and away cricket against Pakistan but the policy was changed in 2003 after a thaw in relations. A thaw in the frosty relationship between the two countries looks remote. So the recent thaw in North-South relations, while encouraging, doesn't change his mind. He added that after a slow thaw in relations which began last year, it was only now that the Sudanese information was being properly examined for the first time. Not only does this help US commanders but it could herald a thaw in the relationship with Moscow. There is a hopeful precedent: the 1999 earthquakes that affected both countries led to a thaw in relations between them. One can only hope that the recent thaw in Indo-Pakistan relations will usher in a new era on the sub-continent. Origin Old English thawian (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch dooien. The noun (first recorded in Middle English) developed its figurative use in the mid 19th century. Rhymes abhor, adore, afore, anymore, ashore, awe, bandore, Bangalore, before, boar, Boer, bore, caw, chore, claw, cocksure, comprador, cor, core, corps, craw, Delors, deplore, door, draw, drawer, evermore, explore, flaw, floor, for, forbore, fore, foresaw, forevermore, forswore, four, fourscore, furthermore, Gábor, galore, gnaw, gore, grantor, guarantor, guffaw, hard-core, Haugh, haw, hoar, ignore, implore, Indore, interwar, jaw, Johor, Lahore, law, lessor, lor, lore, macaw, man-o'-war, maw, mirador, mor, more, mortgagor, Mysore, nevermore, nor, oar, obligor, offshore, onshore, open-jaw, or, ore, outdoor, outwore, paw, poor, pore, pour, rapport, raw, roar, saw, scaur, score, senhor, señor, shaw, ship-to-shore, shop-floor, shore, signor, Singapore, snore, soar, softcore, sore, spore, store, straw, swore, Tagore, tau, taw, Thor, threescore, tor, tore, torr, trapdoor, tug-of-war, two-by-four, underfloor, underscore, war, warrantor, Waugh, whore, withdraw, wore, yaw, yore, your Definition of thaw in US English: thaw verbTHôθɔ [no object] 1(of ice, snow, or another frozen substance, such as food) become liquid or soft as a result of warming. （冰、雪等）融化，融解；（冷冻食品等）解冻；化冻 the river thawed and barges of food began to reach the capital 河流解冻后，一船船的食品开始运抵首都。 Example sentencesExamples But closer study at the nearby University of Alaska revealed an assortment of bacterial cells, many of which came to life as soon as the ice thawed. When the ice thawed, the Messerschmitt sank and remained at the bottom of the lake until recovered by Pearce. Shackleton and his 28-man crew waited, immobilized, in the hope that the ice would eventually thaw, but after ten months the ship was destroyed by ice pressure. Jack was already making his way across the lawn towards the lake, which had thawed out in the warmer weather. Lily bulbs can go into the ground as soon as the soil has thawed. There's never a reason to leave food thawing on the counter. Tightly wrap meat, poultry and fish so the juices don't drip on other food as they thaw in the refrigerator. I am aware that mastodons once walked where I walk, that the seemingly solid ground under my feet has frozen and thawed (and will re-freeze and re-thaw) over eons. Thankfully two weeks later, after the snow had thawed, they happily celebrated their wedding anniversary among family and friends. Add the frozen vegetables, garlic and ginger and cook for two minutes, until the vegetables thaw. The crunch-crunch of the icy grass is music to my ears, as I walk on it before the frost has thawed. Foods which are still partially frozen or have thawed but are still cold to the touch (40 degrees or lower) can safely be refrozen. Meanwhile, it is hoped temperatures will rise for long enough to allow the snow and ice to thaw before the next freeze sets in. On one occasion we were snowed in and the four boys all had chicken pox so we moved out to a rented cottage in Roxburgh until the snow thawed. 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. If you're using a frozen vegetable package from the store, turn the heat up a bit so that the vegetables thaw and the flavour can infuse itself into the vegetables. And any remaining snow is likely to thaw - swelling already brimming rivers - as record high temperatures are also predicted. When I left the hospital, the snow was already thawing, and water dripped from roofs and gutters everywhere. Or they abandoned ship altogether and slogged to shore, hoping to regain their vessels when the ice thawed. Whether it's global warming or just Klondike weirdness, the Klondike River thawed and rose 2 metres in December. Synonyms defrost 1.1it thaws", "it is thawing, etc. The weather becomes warmer and melts snow and ice. （天气）转暖使冰雪融化 Example sentencesExamples Today was much warmer and consequently it thawed and roads became very muddy, just as if a heavy rain had fallen. But of the state of the pitch, he recalls: ‘During the week, it had snowed, then thawed and then frozen again and there was ice under all that water on the surface.’ Synonyms melt, unfreeze, soften, liquefy, dissolve 1.2with object Make (something) warm enough to become liquid or soft. 使融化，使融解；使解冻；使化冻 European exporters simply thawed their beef before unloading 欧洲的出口商们仅是在卸货前把牛肉解冻。 Example sentencesExamples They were then thawed, their soft tissues removed, dried in an oven at 60°C for 72 hours and weighed. When the disease surfaced in the Central Kentucky Thoroughbred community in May 1984, the vaccine was thawed and distributed. Do not refreeze thawed cheese since the eating quality will be poor. To use, thaw the dough in the fridge until it is soft enough to handle. The most successful of Clarence Birdseye's inventions, aside from frozen food, was appropriately enough, an infra-red heating lamp for thawing it. If you use a microwave to thaw or warm baby food, be sure to stir the food well to avoid hot pockets. The sun's gentle rays were thawing the winter ice. Nature was just beginning to blossom, after a period of dormancy. Any leftover soup can be frozen and thawed to enjoy on a winter afternoon. Freezing and thawing raw fish will be the death of sushi and sashimi as we know it. We put the mince in the sink to thaw it out, and I didn't use all the meat. They are then taken to the preparation area, where they are thawed and labelled. Two years later, the cancer treatment having proved a success, the tissue was thawed and reimplanted. Tissues stored in liquid nitrogen were thawed at room temperature. Frozen vegetables with a high water content tend to collapse and turn mushy when thawed unless cooked before freezing. Trufresh, a Connecticut company, has found that its lobsters sometimes come back to life after they've been frozen and then thawed. Now, Kyra, most of the questions are about fairly basic things like what's a safe way to thaw a turkey, what's a good way to roast turkey. If they are not thawed properly harmful bugs will survive the cooking process. Start thawing the turkey and avoid the biggest Christmas nightmare of all - food poisoning. After the treatment, the ovarian tissue was thawed and implanted back into her pelvis. The best way to thaw a frozen chicken is not in the microwave, but in the refrigerator or in cold water. 1.3 (of a part of the body) become warm enough to stop feeling numb. 使（身体等）变得暖起来 Ryan began to feel his ears and toes thaw out 里文开始觉得双耳和脚指头暖和起来了。 Example sentencesExamples I squeezed in between two people and let my fingers and toes thaw out. Dylan stays only long enough for his legs to thaw and then leaves. 1.4 Make or become friendlier or more cordial. 变得随和（或缓和）；变得不拘束，变得友善 no object she thawed out sufficiently to allow a smile to appear 她变得随和了一些，并露出了笑容。 Example sentencesExamples These relations thawed somewhat with the conclusion of formal hostilities in Korea and the death of Joseph Stalin. Max had finally thawed out again, and he smiled, and said, ‘Such zealotry for your country.’ In the Gorbachev era, relations thawed somewhat as high officials exchanged visits and the Soviet Union reduced its Far East nuclear forces and troops, but fundamental differences remained unchanged when the Soviet Union dissolved. By 1985, it had been 30 years since Gillespie's last visit to the island, and finally the political mood had thawed enough to allow another trip to take place. Synonyms become friendlier, become more genial, become more sociable, loosen up, relax, become more relaxed nounTHôθɔ 1A period of warmer weather that thaws ice and snow. 解冻时期（或季节） the thaw came yesterday afternoon 昨天下午冰雪开始解冻。 Example sentencesExamples The thaw after heavy snowfall meant that plumbers were inundated with calls to repair burst pipes. Were you fully aware that some frogs in Europe and North America routinely freeze in winter and return to life with the spring thaw? ‘If we had say four inches of snow up in the dales, followed by a thaw and heavy rainfall, that would put our flood defences to a severe test,’ admits John. The thaw will continue today and tomorrow, according to Steve Randall, a Met Office forecaster. A vast expanse of western Siberia is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warned yesterday. She skated, not seeing the other skaters around her as she wove among them, but seeing again the dark pine forest that lay in the lower mountains in the north of Alresh, where she had skated last, just before the spring thaw. Despite a thaw in the weather, the road remained closed until the signs and bollards were removed and dumped at the roadside. The thaw had made it too warm for snow, and so rain began to fall instead, cold and stinging. After a lapse of some weeks a gradual thaw commenced, but due to the volume of snow to be disposed of, opening of roads to transport was delayed and it was several weeks before normal travel could be resumed. It took five weeks for a significant thaw to take effect and remnants of the snow remained in the mountain ravines for several months. He had gone with Keith to paint in the Yosemite Valley when the spring thaw had swollen the famous waterfalls. But such is the capricious side to April's weather that the sun shone the following day and a rapid thaw set in turning the snow-laden streets into water courses. These instruments sense the electrical properties of water in the landscape, allowing scientists to determine exactly when and where the springtime thaw occurs. Later on in the morning, when it was clear that the snow flurries had finished and that a slight thaw was setting in, I got tired of sitting at the window looking out. Mid-March did not see the thaw in the weather that people had hoped for. Weather forecasters said a thaw would get under way today. However, by tomorrow snow is expected to turn to rain as the thaw begins. As they brace themselves for the big thaw following this week's snowfall, the people of York might not have needed a reminder of flooding. Meanwhile the big thaw and heavy rainfall left North Yorkshire drivers tackling roads covered in water. Inevitably the cold snap was followed by the big thaw, several inches of snow disappearing in a matter of hours on New Year's Eve, and the floods were soon with us once again. The plants' cell walls will thicken, which helps keep them from bursting during freezes and thaws. 1.1 An increase in friendliness or cordiality. （关系、态度等）缓和 a thaw in relations between the two countries 美国和苏联关系的解冻。 Example sentencesExamples There is a hopeful precedent: the 1999 earthquakes that affected both countries led to a thaw in relations between them. A thaw in the frosty relationship between the two countries looks remote. Maddie might soon swing back to being emotionally distant, but the current thaw in their relations is a positive beginning. Since the June summit, a flurry of private and official talks between the two Koreas has produced a thaw in relations. By yesterday things were brightening up weatherwise, but there was still no sign of a thaw in relations with locals. The signs of a thaw in US relations with these and other countries point to a different approach emerging in Washington. There had been something of a thaw in relations between democrats and Beijing recently. The series is being revived after a recent thaw in relations between the two countries. But the sudden thaw in relations between the two sides could not guarantee that the eight-day strike planned to start on Friday would be called off. So the recent thaw in North-South relations, while encouraging, doesn't change his mind. Almost three years later, the hopes for a thaw in relations raised by his visit are finally being realized. The thaw in relations also removed a three-year ban on bilateral sporting events in October 2003. The North-South thaw has produced a groundswell of positive sentiment in Korea, bitterly divided for so long. The organizers had hoped to get the two leaders to build on the thaw in their relations that began some two weeks ago in Abuja. Not only does this help US commanders but it could herald a thaw in the relationship with Moscow. He added that after a slow thaw in relations which began last year, it was only now that the Sudanese information was being properly examined for the first time. But for now, a thaw in Cuban-American relations remains a pipe dream. And now, in the light of the recent thaw in relations between Libya and the West, Scotland Yard detectives have agreed to carry her plea to the ears of the dictator. In 2000, the Indian government banned all home and away cricket against Pakistan but the policy was changed in 2003 after a thaw in relations. Stalin's death, the rise of a new leadership, and the end of the Korean war seemed to augur a thaw in US-Soviet relations. One can only hope that the recent thaw in Indo-Pakistan relations will usher in a new era on the sub-continent. Origin Old English thawian (verb), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch dooien. The noun (first recorded in Middle English) developed its figurative use in the mid 19th century.
随便看	Vermonter vermouth vermouths Vernaccia vernacular vernacularisation vernacularise vernacularism square sth away squaretail square-tailed squaretails square the circle square the circle square-toe square-toed square-toes square up square up square up to square wave square with squaring squarish squarish