Freezing

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • 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.
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  • adjective. Suffering or causing frost
  • adjective. Very cold
  • noun. The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
  • noun. The action of numbing with anesthetics.
  • verb. Present participle of freeze.
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  • noun. the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
    • Word Usage
    "That's what we call freezing rain, Fredricka, where it comes down as rain and then it freezes on contact."
    Form
    freezing point  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    chilling  cooling  phase change  phase transition  physical change  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    freeze-drying  frost  icing  lyophilisation  lyophilization  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    appeasing  easing  pleasing  seizing  sneezing  
    verb-stem
    freeze  
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