Cold

[kəʊld] or [kold]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the sensation produced by low temperatures; 'he shivered from the cold'; 'the cold helped clear his head'.

(noun.) a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs); 'will they never find a cure for the common cold?'.

(adj.) lacking the warmth of life; 'cold in his grave' .

(adj.) of a seeker; far from the object sought .

(adj.) unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication; 'the boxer was out cold'; 'pass out cold' .

(adj.) feeling or showing no enthusiasm; 'a cold audience'; 'a cold response to the new play' .

(adj.) having lost freshness through passage of time; 'a cold trail'; 'dogs attempting to catch a cold scent' .

(adj.) having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration; 'a cold climate'; 'a cold room'; 'dinner has gotten cold'; 'cold fingers'; 'if you are cold, turn up the heat'; 'a cold beer' .

(adj.) extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion; 'a cold unfriendly nod'; 'a cold and unaffectionate person'; 'a cold impersonal manner'; 'cold logic'; 'the concert left me cold' .

(adj.) without compunction or human feeling; 'in cold blood'; 'cold-blooded killing'; 'insensate destruction' .

(adj.) sexually unresponsive; 'was cold to his advances'; 'a frigid woman' .

(adj.) so intense as to be almost uncontrollable; 'cold fury gripped him' .

(adj.) lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; 'moth-eaten theories about race'; 'stale news' .

(adj.) marked by errorless familiarity; 'had her lines cold before rehearsals started' .

(adj.) (color) giving no sensation of warmth; 'a cold bluish grey' .

黛比手打--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.

(n.) Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.

(n.) Not pungent or acrid.

(n.) Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.

(n.) Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.

(n.) Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.

(n.) Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.

(n.) Not sensitive; not acute.

(n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.

(n.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.

(n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth.

(n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.

(n.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.

(v. i.) To become cold.

科南錄入

同義詞及近義詞：

a. [1]. Frigid, GELID, cool, not warm, not hot.[2]. Bleak, raw, biting, cutting, nipping, frosty, icy, wintry, hyemal, brumal.[3]. Chilly, chill, shivering.[4]. Apathetic, phlegmatic, stoical, unfeeling, unsusceptible, unimpressible, passionless, cold-blooded, sluggish, torpid, lukewarm, dead, indifferent, unconcerned.[5]. Unaffecting, uninteresting.

n. [1]. Absence of warmth, privation of heat.[2]. Coldness, chilliness.[3]. Catarrh, cough (or other inflammatory disease produced by exposure to cold).

休伯特校對

同義詞及反義詞：

[See FRIGID]

艾琳校對

解釋/意思:

adj. the opposite of hot: shivering: without passion or zeal: spiritless: unfriendly: indifferent: reserved.—n. a relative want of sensible heat: the feeling or sensation caused by the absence of heat: coldness: a spell of cold weather: a disease caused by cold a catarrhal inflammation of the mucous membrane of the respiratory organs usually accompanied by hoarseness and coughing: catarrh: chillness.—adj. Cold′-blood′ed having cold blood as fishes: without feeling: hard-hearted—of persons or actions.—adv. Cold′-blood′edly.—ns. Cold′-blood′edness; Cold′-Chis′el a strong and finely-tempered chisel for cutting cold metal as distinguished from a blacksmith's chisel for cutting hot iron; Cold′-cream the name applied to a creamy ointment usually made of almond-oil spermaceti white wax and rose-water used as a cooling dressing for the skin.—adjs. Cold′-heart′ed wanting feeling: indifferent; Cold′ish somewhat cold.—adv. Coldly.—ns. Cold′ness; Cold′-pig (coll.) the application of cold water to wake a person.—adj. Cold′-short brittle when cold: (fig.) of the temper.—ns. Cold′-wat′er water at its natural temperature; Cold′-without′ brandy with cold water and no sugar.—Cold as charity a proverbial phrase expressing ironically great coldness or indifference.—Catch cold Take cold to acquire the malady—a cold.—Give the cold shoulder to show indifference: to give a rebuff.—In cold blood with deliberate intent not under the influence of passion.—Leave out in the cold to neglect ignore.—Throw cold water on to discourage.

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