Chill

[tʃɪl]

Definition

(noun.) coldness due to a cold environment.

(noun.) a sudden numbing dread.

(noun.) a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever.

(verb.) depress or discourage; 'The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers'.

Typist: Maura--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.

(n.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.

(n.) A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.

(n.) An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.

(n.) The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.

(a.) Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.

(a.) Affected by cold.

(a.) Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.

(a.) Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.

(v. t.) To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.

(v. t.) To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.

(v. t.) To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.

(v. i.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.

Inputed by Alan

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Cold, frigid, chilly, bleak.

v. a. [1]. Make chilly, make cold.[2]. Depress, discourage, deject, dampen, dishearten.

Editor: Simon

Definition

n. coldness: a cold that causes shivering: anything that damps or disheartens.—adj. shivering with cold: slightly cold: opposite of cordial.—v.i. to grow cold.—v.t. to make chill or cold: to blast with cold: to discourage.—adj. Chilled made cold: hardened by chilling as iron.—n. Chill′iness.—adj. Chill′ing cooling cold.—n. Chill′ness.—adj. Chilly that chills: somewhat chill.—Take the chill off to give a slight heat: to make lukewarm.

Edited by Jacqueline

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Checker: Monroe

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