Cold
[kəʊld] or [kold]
Definition
(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' .
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
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).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FRIGID]
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Definition
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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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of suffering from cold, you are warned to look well to your affairs. There are enemies at work to destroy you. Your health is also menaced.
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Examples
- The day was cold and dark and wintry and the stone of the houses looked cold. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Citizen Evremonde, she said, touching him with her cold hand. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Dorothea by this time had turned cold again, and now threw herself back helplessly in her chair. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This vapor is rendered intensely cold by expansion, and this cold is imparted to the water in tank _a_ to freeze it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Another way to make the composition is to soak over night in cold water best gelatine or glue 1 part, and the excess of water poured off. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- In some cases freckles are permanent, but in most cases they disappear with the coming of cold weather. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The blinding snow and bitter cold are nothing to her, I believe; yet she is but a 'chitty-faced creature,' as my mother would say. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But no love shines on her brow, Nor breaks she a marriage-vow, Love is colder. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- If this extra cool air is used for cooling another batch of air under pressure, the latter upon expansion becomes still colder than the first batch expanded. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He thought, then, that her cheek was more strained than usual, and that it was colder. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There is no reason to believe that this view is any colder than that of the war of class against class. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Guardian, said I, venturing to put my hand, which was suddenly colder than I could have wished, in his, nothing! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It was colder outside and there was a mist in the trees. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Her hand struck colder to mine than ever. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Damp, but not wet linen, may possibly give colds; but no one catches cold by bathing, and no clothes can be wetter than water itself. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- People do not die of little trifling colds. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But colds were never so prevalent as they have been this autumn. Jane Austen. Emma.
- They would catch worse colds at the Crown than anywhere. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Semi-starvation and neglected colds had predisposed most of the pupils to receive infection: forty-five out of the eighty girls lay ill at one time. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- For the same reason, colds and sore throat sometimes induce temporary deafness. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Summer colds are always a little trying. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Some very grave reproof, or at least the coldest expression of indifference, must be coming to distress her brother, and sink her to the ground. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Nay, she could love and dwell with tenderness on the look and voice of her friend, while her demeanour expressed the coldest reserve. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He was on the coldest terms--in some cases on the worst terms with the families of his own rank and station who lived near him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- On Egdon, coldest and meanest kisses were at famine prices, and where was a mouth matching hers to be found? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The most severe winter cannot freeze a deep lake solid, and in the coldest weather a hole made in the ice will show water beneath the surface. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Late in the afternoon, when she next appears upon the staircase, she is in her haughtiest and coldest state. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This particular bit of acting was heightened by the fact that even in the coldest weather he wears thin summer clothes, generally acid-worn and more or less disreputable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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