coldness
寒冷,冷漠,寒冷度,冰冷
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Definitions
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cold·er, cold·est.
- : having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth: cold water; a cold day.
- : feeling an uncomfortable lack of warmth; chilled: The skaters were cold.
- : having a temperature lower than the normal temperature of the human body: cold hands.
- : lacking in passion, emotion, enthusiasm, ardor, etc.; dispassionate: cold reason.
- : not affectionate, cordial, or friendly; unresponsive: a cold reply; a cold reception.
- : lacking sensual desire: She remained cold to his advances.
- : failing to excite feeling or interest: the cold precision of his prose.
- : unexcitable; imperturbable: cold impassivity.
- : depressing; dispiriting: the cold atmosphere of a hospital waiting room.
- : unconscious because of a severe blow, shock, etc.: I knocked him cold with an uppercut.
- : lacking the warmth of life; lifeless: When the doctor arrived, the body was already cold.
- : faint; weak: The dogs lost the cold scent.
- : distant from the object of search or the correct answer.
- : Slang. not scoring or winning; ineffective: Cold shooting and poor rebounding were their undoing.
- : Art. having cool colors, especially muted tones tending toward grayish blue.being a cool color.
- : slow to absorb heat, as a soil containing a large amount of clay and hence retentive of moisture.
- : Metalworking. noting or pertaining to any process involving plastic deformation of a metal at a temperature below that at which recrystallization can occur because of the strain: cold working.
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- : the relative absence of heat: Everyone suffered from the intense cold.
- : the sensation produced by loss of heat from the body, as by contact with anything having a lower temperature than that of the body: He felt the cold of the steel door against his cheek.
- : cold weather: He can't take the cold.
- : Also called common cold. a respiratory disorder characterized by sneezing, sore throat, coughing, etc., caused by an allergic reaction or by a viral, bacterial, or mixed infection.
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- : with complete competence, thoroughness, or certainty; absolutely: He learned his speech cold.
- : without preparation or prior notice: She had to play the lead role cold.
- : in an abrupt, unceremonious manner: He quit the job cold.
- : Metalworking. at a temperature below that at which recrystallization can occur: to cold-hammer an iron bar; The wire was drawn cold.
Phrases
- cold cash
- cold comfort
- cold feet, get
- cold fish
- cold hands, warm heart
- cold shoulder
- cold shower
- cold snap
- cold storage
- cold sweat
- cold turkey
- blow hot and cold
- catch cold
- come in from the cold
- in a cold sweat
- in cold blood
- in cold storage
- in the cold light of day
- knock out (cold)
- leave one cold
- make one's blood run cold
- out cold
- out in the cold
- pour cold water on
- stone cold
- stop cold
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
How the companies addressed those four challenges is likely the key to how cold the vaccines need to be, Mishra says.
A coat that CYOAThere are different coats for different occasions and activities, but we should all have one for when we just don’t want to be cold.
What’s more, there are opportunities to use insects for learning outdoors, even if in colder climates there might not be year-round opportunities as we have in Florida.
I pounded a cold instant coffee, dismantled camp, and rappelled.
At the Judiciary Square testing site, hundreds of people wrapped around several city blocks Wednesday, bundled in scarves, blankets and headbands to fend off the cold.
Eleanor was even more bitter than her husband, refusing to forgive Barrow for his coldness.
This she did (we are not told how), and Beethoven reacted with ‘repellent coldness’.
The result will be an epic cold air outbreak, with much of the coldness being channeled southward from Greenland.
That coldness had begun to reflect in Carl, who shot and killed a teenage boy from Woodbury even as the kid was surrendering.
They are identifiable by their coldness, pale skin, and ice-blue eyes.
He had seen her name in a hotel list of Mentone; he surprised her with a visit; he was received with inexplicable coldness.
The interior, however, lacks interest, and the absence of stained glass gives an air of coldness.
Could Tessa have heard his voice, she would never again have accused him of coldness.
Your anxiety lest any coldness should arise between Mr. E. and me will, I hope, prove groundless.
When the servant had gone out, a moment of silence fell between them, a glacial coldness.