cold meaning

• Adjective: cold (colder,coldest)  kówld
  1. 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. 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. Having lost freshness through passage of time
     "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent" 
  4. (colour) giving no sensation of warmth
     "a cold bluish grey" 
  5. Marked by errorless familiarity
     "had her lines cold before rehearsals started" 
  6. Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
     - stale, dusty, moth-eaten 
  7. So intense as to be almost uncontrollable
     "cold fury gripped him" 
  8. Sexually unresponsive
     "was cold to his advances"
     - frigid 
  9. Without compunction or human feeling
     "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"
     - cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate 
  10. Feeling or showing no enthusiasm
      "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play" 
  11. Unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
      "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold" 
  12. Of a seeker; far from the object sought 
  13. Lacking the warmth of life
      "cold in his grave"
  Noun: cold  kówld
  1. 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 
  2. The absence of heat
     "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor"
     - coldness, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness 
  3. 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

• 
  [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.

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Examples

1. the president's look was cold and penetrating.
2. he changed his manner; became very cold.
3. there was a bitterly cold east wind blowing.
4. it 's damp and cold, i think it 's going to rain.
5. my skin soon chaps in cold weather.