Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of hardening, congealing, or solidifying with cold; freezing or chilling treatment.
- Such as to freeze; specifically, at or below the temperature of 32° F. (0° C.), which is called the freezing-point, because water freezes at that temperature; in general, very cold: as, freezing weather.
- Figuratively, haughty; stern; chilling: as, freezing politeness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.
- adjective See Ice machine, under
Ice . - adjective a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold.
- adjective that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose
freezing point is at 32° Fahr., and at 0° Centigrade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective literally Suffering or causing
frost - adjective by extension Very
cold - noun uncountable, physics, chemistry The change in
state of a substance fromliquid tosolid bycooling to a critically low temperature. - noun countable, medicine The action of
numbing withanesthetics . - verb Present participle of
freeze .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
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Examples
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That's what we call freezing rain, Fredricka, where it comes down as rain and then it freezes on contact.
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Every one knows that we determine that one fixed point of our thermometer scale which we call the freezing point of zero by placing the thermometer in a mixture of pure water and ice.
Ice and Glaciers 1909
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"Steve says we must do what he calls freezing him out -- make him feel that we do not want him here."
Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Water melts at what we call the freezing, but might just as wisely, though not as conveniently, call the melting, point; and radiates as it cools into the most beautiful of all known crystals.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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Water melts at what we call the freezing, but might just as wisely, though not as conveniently, call the melting, point; and radiates as it cools into the most beautiful of all known crystals.
The Ethics of the Dust John Ruskin 1859
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Depending on how cold that surface layer is, and how thick, the rain falling through that colder air will either freeze as it falls, landing as sleet; or, it will freeze on contact with the surface, which we call freezing rain.
Blog updates 2009
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The hole would persist in freezing up, and thus gave them many
In a Far Country 2010
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Health: Keeping healthy while standing for hours in freezing rain
Proud Dad Alert! 2009
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Health: Keeping healthy while standing for hours in freezing rain
Proud Dad Alert! 2009
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Additionally, I have no idea where, or how, you would change a wet diaper in freezing temperatures outdoors.
Ban on Strollers for Inauguration - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
sarra commented on the word freezing
yes I am
November 3, 2008
bilby commented on the word freezing
Awww. See warm.
November 3, 2008
sarra commented on the word freezing
Bless you!
November 3, 2008