cold meaning
- Adjective: cold (colder,coldest) kówld
- 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" - 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" - Having lost freshness through passage of time
"a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent" - (colour) giving no sensation of warmth
"a cold bluish grey" - Marked by errorless familiarity
"had her lines cold before rehearsals started" - Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
- stale, dusty, moth-eaten - So intense as to be almost uncontrollable
"cold fury gripped him" - Sexually unresponsive
"was cold to his advances"
- frigid - Without compunction or human feeling
"in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"
- cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate - Feeling or showing no enthusiasm
"a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play" - Unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
"the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold" - Of a seeker; far from the object sought
- Lacking the warmth of life
"cold in his grave"
- A mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
"will they never find a cure for the common cold?"
- common cold - The absence of heat
"come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor"
- coldness, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness - The sensation produced by low temperatures
"he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"
- coldness
Sounds like: coaled
Derived forms: colds, colder, coldest
See also: acold [archaic], algid, arctic, bleak, chilly, coldly, coldness, cool, crisp, cutting, dead, emotionalism, emotionality, emotionless, far, frigid, frigorific, frore [archaic], frosty, frozen, gelid, glacial, heatless, ice-cold, icy, inhumane, intense, nipping, nippy [Brit, Cdn], parky [Brit], passionless, perfect, polar, raw, refrigerant, refrigerated, refrigerating, rimed, rimy, shivery, snappy, stale, stone-cold, temperature, unconscious, unenthusiastic, unheated, unloving, unoriginal, unwarmed, wintry
Type of: communicable disease, pressor, respiratory disease, respiratory disorder, respiratory illness, temperature, vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor
Antonym: hot
Encyclopedia: Cold, Cheap & Disconnected Cold Cold, Cold Heart Cold, dead hands Cold, dead hand
- Having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
[American slang]
mod. not good.
• That new CD is real cold. The sound is bad and the performance is too.
• The lecture was cold and dull.
[Electronics]
1. Pertaining to an electrical circuit, component, or terminal that is at ground potential.
2. A term denoting a bad solder joint.
3. Pertaining to an unheated electrode or element. See COLD CATHODE.
[Medicine]
An absence of warmth or heat or a temperature notably below an accustomed norm.n
1 : bodily sensation produced by loss or lack of heat
2 : a bodily disorder popularly associated with chilling:
a in humans : COMMON COLD
b in domestic animals : CORYZA
COLD
abbr chronic obstructive lung disease
adj
1
a : having or being a temperature that is noticeably lower than body temperature and esp. that is uncomfortable for humans it is cold outside today a cold drafty exercise room
b : having a relatively low temperature or one that is lower than normal or expected the bath water has gotten cold
c : receptive to the sensation of coldness : stimulated by cold a cold spot is a typical receptor in higher vertebrates
2 : marked by the loss of normal body heat cold hands
3 : DEAD
4 : exhibiting little or no radioactivity — cold·ness n
[Computer]
1. <language> A sugared version of COLD-K.
2. <storage> Computer Output to Laser Disk - see Enterprise Report Management.
- cold bending, cold gagging: [Architecture]The ...
- cold cut, cold cutter: [Architecture]A co ...
- (the) cold shoulder: [British slang]Nou ...
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- the president's look was cold and penetrating.
- he changed his manner; became very cold.
- there was a bitterly cold east wind blowing.
- it 's damp and cold, i think it 's going to rain.
- my skin soon chaps in cold weather.