It is true that heat and acid can cause proteins to denature, which means that they lose their 3-dimensional shape. A cooked egg white that becomes opaque and solid is an example. When milk is treated with acid, the protein casein curdles into a solid and the whey separates, still liquid.
The noun TOCCATA has 1 sense: 1. a baroque musical composition (usually for a keyboard instrument) with full chords and rapid elaborate runs in a rhythmically free style. Familiarity information: TOCCATA used as a noun is very rare.
Use the word lilt to describe a swinging kind of tempo in music. You might love old fashioned big band jazz because of its distinctive lilt. Upbeat, rhythmic music of any kind has a lilt, and you can also describe certain ways of speaking as having a lilt. Lilt can be a verb, too, as when you lilt out a song.