drizzle, teat, melt your heart, To make a sound: a glacial melt

The San Diego Zoo surprised its polar bears with fresh snow, and the bears' reaction will melt your heart. http://cnn.it/1SdoKRc

BBC Radio 4

If a glacier melts in Antarctica and Chris Watson is there to record it, does it make a sound?
The answer is yes.

The sound of a glacial melt

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To make a sound - synonyms or related words

Reproductively, monotremes are like a VCR-DVD unit, an embodiment of a technology in transition. They lay leathery eggs, as reptiles do, but then feed the so-called puggles that hatch with milk — though drizzled out of glands in the chest rather than expressed through nippled teats, and sometimes so enriched with iron that it looks pink.

drizzle

v., -zled, -zling, -zles. v.intr.

To rain gently in fine, mistlike drops.

v.tr.

1. To let fall in fine drops or particles: drizzled melted butter over the asparagus.
2. To moisten with fine drops: drizzled the asparagus with melted butter.

n.

A fine, gentle, misty rain.

[Perhaps from Middle English drisning, fall of dew, from Old English -drysnian, in gedrysnian, to pass away, vanish.]

teat

n.. - 奶頭

A nipple of the mammary gland; a mamilla.

[Middle English tete, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]

teated teat'ed adj.

sound

 verb

to produce a sound

tap out

to create a particular pattern of sounds by hitting a surface gently with your fingers

let out

to make a noise

pitch

 verb

to make a sound at a particular level

sound

 verb

to make something produce a sound

break

 verb

to end a quiet or calm period, for example by talking or making a noise

go

 verb

to make a particular sound, especially the typical sound of a particular animal

emit

 verb

formal

 to make a sound

utter

 verb

literary

 to make a sound

voice

 verb

linguistics

 to produce a sound with your mouth and vocal cords

Definition of melt in English:

verb

1Make or become liquefied by heating:[WITH OBJECT]: the hot metal melted the wax(as adjective melted) asparagus with melted butter[NO OBJECT]: place under a hot grill until the cheese has melted

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1.1[WITH OBJECT] (melt something down) Melt a metal article so as to reuse the raw material:beautiful objects are being melted down and sold for scrap

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1.2[NO OBJECT] Dissolve in liquid:add 400g sugar and boil until the sugar melts

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1.3[NO OBJECT] informal (Of a person) suffer extreme heat.

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2Make or become more tender or loving:[WITH OBJECT]: Richard gave her a smile which melted her heart[NO OBJECT]: she was so beautiful that I melted

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3[NO OBJECT, WITH ADVERBIAL] Disappear or disperse:the compromise was accepted and the opposition melted away

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3.1(melt into) Change or merge imperceptibly into (another form or state):the cheers melted into gasps of admiration

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noun

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1An act or period of melting:the precipitation falls as snow and is released during the spring melt

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1.1[MASS NOUN] Metal or other material in a melted condition.

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1.2A quantity of metal melted at one operation.

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1.3[WITH MODIFIER] North American A sandwich, hamburger, or other dish containing or topped with melted cheese:a tuna melt

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Phrases

melt in the mouth

(Of food) be deliciously light or tender and need little chewing:they ate lamb which melted in the mouth