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cold definition
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Grep of noun cold cold cold's foot cold-water flat cold cereal cold chisel cold comfort cold cream cold cuts cold duck cold feet cold fish cold frame cold front cold fusion cold medicine cold rubber cold shoulder cold snap cold sore cold spell cold stuffed tomato cold sweat cold turkey cold war cold wave cold weather coldheartedness coldness common cold common scold head cold scold Overview of noun cold The noun cold has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (5) cold, common cold -- (a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs); "will they never find a cure for the common cold?") 2. (5) coldness, cold, low temperature -- (the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor") 3. cold, coldness -- (the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head") Overview of adj cold The adj cold has 13 senses (first 3 from tagged texts) 1. (40) cold -- (used of physical coldness; 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") 2. (13) cold -- (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") 3. (1) cold -- (having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent") 4. cold -- ((color) giving no sensation of warmth; "a cold bluish gray") 5. cold -- (marked by errorless familiarity; "had her lines cold before rehearsals started") 6. cold, stale -- (no longer new uninteresting; "cold (or stale) news") 7. cold -- (so intense as to be almost uncontrollable; "cold fury gripped him") 8. cold, frigid -- (sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman") 9. cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate -- (without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction") 10. cold -- (feeling or showing no enthusiasm; "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play") 11. cold -- (unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication; "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold") 12. cold -- (of a seeker; far from the object sought) 13. cold -- (lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave") Antonyms of adj cold 13 senses of cold Sense 1 cold (vs. hot) hot (vs. cold) => baking, baking hot => blistering, blistery => boiling, scalding => burning(postnominal) => calefacient, warming => calefactory, calefactive, heating => calorifacient => calorific => heated, heated up het, het up => hottish => red-hot => sizzling => sultry, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous => sweltering, sweltry => thermal => torrid, sultry => tropical, tropic => white, white-hot => fervent, fervid => fiery, igneous => heatable => overheated => scorching Sense 2 cold (vs. hot) hot (vs. cold) => boiling, sizzling => fiery, flaming => heated => red-hot, sizzling => sensual, sultry => torrid => white-hot Sense 3 cold INDIRECT (VIA stale) -> fresh Sense 4 cold INDIRECT (VIA cool) -> warm Sense 5 cold INDIRECT (VIA perfect) -> imperfect Sense 6 cold, stale INDIRECT (VIA old) -> new Sense 7 cold INDIRECT (VIA intense) -> mild Sense 8 cold, frigid INDIRECT (VIA unloving) -> loving Sense 9 cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate INDIRECT (VIA inhumane) -> humane Sense 10 cold INDIRECT (VIA unenthusiastic) -> enthusiastic Sense 11 cold INDIRECT (VIA unconscious) -> conscious Sense 12 cold INDIRECT (VIA far) -> near close Sense 13 cold INDIRECT (VIA dead) -> alive Similarity of adj cold 13 senses of cold Sense 1 cold (vs. hot) => acold => algid => arctic, freezing, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar => bleak, cutting, raw => chilled, ice-cold, iced => chilled, shivering => crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy, parky => frigorific => frore => frosted, frosty, rimed, rimy => refrigerant, refrigerating => shivery => stone-cold => unheated, unwarmed => heatless => refrigerated Also See-> cool#1; frozen#1 Sense 2 cold (vs. hot) => emotionless, passionless => frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry Also See-> cool#4; passionless#1 Sense 3 cold => stale (vs. fresh) Sense 4 cold => cool (vs. warm) Sense 5 cold => perfect (vs. imperfect) Sense 6 cold, stale => old (vs. new) Sense 7 cold => intense (vs. mild) Sense 8 cold, frigid => unloving (vs. loving) Sense 9 cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate => inhumane (vs. humane) Sense 10 cold => unenthusiastic (vs. enthusiastic) Sense 11 cold => unconscious (vs. conscious) Sense 12 cold => far (vs. near) Sense 13 cold => dead (vs. alive) Attributes of adj cold 2 of 13 senses of cold Sense 1 cold (vs. hot) => temperature Sense 2 cold (vs. hot) => emotionality, emotionalism Familiarity of adj cold cold used as an adjective is familiar (polysemy count = 13) Grep of adj cold acold cold cold-blooded cold sober coldhearted ice-cold stone-cold Overview of noun cold The noun cold has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts) 1. (5) cold, common cold -- (a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs); "will they never find a cure for the common cold?") 2. (5) coldness, cold, low temperature -- (the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor") 3. cold, coldness -- (the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head") Overview of adj cold The adj cold has 13 senses (first 3 from tagged texts) 1. (40) cold -- (used of physical coldness; 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") 2. (13) cold -- (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") 3. (1) cold -- (having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent") 4. cold -- ((color) giving no sensation of warmth; "a cold bluish gray") 5. cold -- (marked by errorless familiarity; "had her lines cold before rehearsals started") 6. cold, stale -- (no longer new uninteresting; "cold (or stale) news") 7. cold -- (so intense as to be almost uncontrollable; "cold fury gripped him") 8. cold, frigid -- (sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman") 9. cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate -- (without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction") 10. cold -- (feeling or showing no enthusiasm; "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play") 11. cold -- (unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication; "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold") 12. cold -- (of a seeker; far from the object sought) 13. cold -- (lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave")
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