Talk:unthaw

I think you'll find it means NOT thawed. As in something that has not thawed enough or in other words is still frozen. See: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/unthawed http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/UNTHAWED
 * You are confusing the adjective unthawed with the verb "to unthaw". --EncycloPetey 21:06, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

You cannot 'unthaw' something. I'm not confusing anything. You can thaw somethng but to 'unthaw' something would mean that you would have to freeze it. Who wrote this nonsense? 'Unthaw' cannot be a verb unless it is intended to be a synonym for 'freeze'.

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"un-" has other meanings besides "not" or "reverse". Think of unroll. "Unroll" is more or less the opposite of "roll up" and synonymous with "roll out". "Unrolling" is more a kind of "rolling" than an opposite of rolling. That said, I wouldn't use "unthaw" because it is confusing. DCDuring TALK 04:51, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Yes, in that case "unroll" is a kind of rolling, but that's really just a coincidence. What's really meant by "unroll" is to "undo" or "reverse" the process of rolling the object up. The problem with the word "unthaw" is that like it or not, it has been used so often to mean "unfreeze," which is really just to thaw (or thaw out) that now "thaw" and "unthaw" mean the same thing even though technically that is incorrect. That's the evolution of our great American English language, ain't it(is it not)? 3/3/10 at 9:51pm jonmvoss@yahoo.com


 * The supposed "re-freeze" sense only exists as unthawing, so it's an adjective; compare undying, where you don't say that a perpetual rumour, etc. "undies". I'll fix it soonish. Equinox ◑ 15:30, 5 May 2018 (UTC)