cold
1 saying how cold sth is
2 when your body is cold
3 keeping cool when the weather is hot
keeping food cold FOOD
see also HOT, WEATHER
1 saying how cold sth is
- not hot, having a low temperature: cold; noun (U): cold
Turn the heating up - I'm cold. ◎ a cold winter ◎ The water was extremely cold. ◎ Come inside - you shouldn't stay out in the cold so long.
- a little cold: cool; noun (U): cool
a cool drink ◎ the cool of the evening
- if sth is completely cold, it is stone-cold
I can't eat this soup - it's stone-cold!
- to get colder: cool down/off; to make sb/sth get colder: cool sb/sth down/off
I'll eat it when it's cooled down a bit.
- to become hard because of extreme cold: freeze*
The ground had frozen hard.
- very cold: (informal) freezing, (informal) freezing cold
You've got no coat on - you must be freezing! ◎ I'd stay in today if I were you - it's freezing cold out there.
※ cold liquids LIQUID, WATER, ICE
- measuring temperature HOT
2 when your body is cold
- when your body shakes because of the cold, you shiver
- when your teeth knock together because you are shivering, they chatter
- the small points which appear on your skin when you are cold: goose-flesh (noun U), goose pimples (AmE goose bumps)(noun plural)
- a serious injury to the fingers, toes, etc caused by extreme cold: frostbite (noun U); adjective: frostbitten
- to die because of staying in extreme cold: freeze* to death, die of cold
- if you often feel cold (more than most people), you feel* the cold
Old people tend to feel the cold more than the young.
3 keeping cool when the weather is hot
- a system for keeping buildings cool when the weather is hot: air-conditioning (noun U)
- a machine for air-conditioning: air-conditioner
- cooled by air-conditioning: air-conditioned
an air-conditioned office
- an electrical machine with blades which turn around and keep the air moving in a room: fan
- to cool sb/sth by waving sth in the air: fan sb/sth/yourself
It was hot in the theatre and some of the audience started fanning themselves with their programmes.
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