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Cold Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Cold? [n] the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor" [n] the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head" [n] a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs); "will they never find a cure for the common cold?" [adj] unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication; "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold" [adj] lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave" [adj] of a seeker; far from the object sought [adj] feeling or showing no enthusiasm; "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play" [adj] having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent" [adj] 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" [adj] 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" [adj] without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [adj] sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman" [adj] so intense as to be almost uncontrollable; "cold fury gripped him" [adj] no longer new; uninteresting; "cold (or stale) news" [adj] marked by errorless familiarity; "had her lines cold before rehearsals started" [adj] (color) giving no sensation of warmth; "a cold bluish gray" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Cold: acold \| algid \| arctic \| bleak \| chilled \| cold-blooded \| coldness \| coldness \| common cold \| crisp \| cutting \| dead \| emotionless \| far \| freezing \| frigid \| frigorific \| frore \| frosted \| frosty \| gelid \| glacial \| heatless \| ice-cold \| iced \| icy \| inhuman \| inhumane \| insensate \| intense \| low temperature \| nipping \| nippy \| old \| parky \| passionless \| perfect \| polar \| raw \| refrigerant \| refrigerated \| refrigerating \| rimed \| rimy \| shivering \| shivery \| snappy \| stale \| stone-cold \| unconscious \| unenthusiastic \| unheated \| unloving \| unwarmed \| wintry Related Terms \| Find terms related to Cold: abruptly \| absolutely \| acute bronchitis \| adenoiditis \| affectless \| ague \| aguey \| aguish \| algid \| aloof \| aluminosis \| amygdalitis \| anesthetized \| anthracosilicosis \| anthracosis \| apathetic \| arctic \| arid \| arrogant \| asbestosis \| asexual \| Asiatic flu \| asleep \| asthma \| atypical pneumonia \| audacious \| autistic \| backward \| barren \| bashful \| below zero \| biting \| bitter \| bitterly cold \| bituminosis \| black \| black lung \| blah \| blank \| bleak \| bloodless \| blue with cold \| blunt \| boreal \| bracing \| brisk \| bronchial pneumonia \| bronchiectasis \| bronchiolitis \| bronchitis \| bronchopneumonia \| brumal \| bug \| bumptious \| callous \| calloused \| castrated \| cataleptic \| catarrh \| catatonic \| chalicosis \| characterless \| chattering \| cheerless \| chill \| chilled \| chilling \| chilly \| chromatic \| chronic bronchitis \| cold as charity \| cold as death \| cold as ice \| cold as marble \| cold of heart \| coldblooded \| cold-blooded \| coldhearted \| coldness \| collapsed lung \| colorific \| coloring \| colorless \| comatose \| common cold \| completely \| coniosis \| constrained \| contumelious \| cool \| coryza \| crisp \| croup \| croupous pneumonia \| cutting \| dead \| dead as mutton \| deadening \| deceased \| defunct \| departed \| depressing \| detached \| dichromatic \| disaccordant \| discouraging \| discreet \| disdainful \| disheartening \| dismal \| dispassionate \| dispiriting \| distant \| dithery \| doped \| double pneumonia \| draggy \| drear \| drearisome \| dreary \| drugged \| dry \| dry pleurisy \| dryasdust \| dull \| effete \| elephantine \| emasculated \| emotionally dead \| emotionless \| emphysema \| empty \| empyema \| entirely \| epidemic pleurodynia \| etiolated \| eunuchized \| exanimate \| exclusive \| expressionless \| extinct \| fade \| faint \| familiar \| far \| fervorless \| fibrinous pneumonia \| flat \| flinthearted \| flu \| forbidding \| forward \| freezing \| freezing cold \| frigid \| frigidity \| frosted \| frosty \| frozen \| frozen to death \| frustrated \| gelid \| glacial \| gloomy \| glowing \| grippe \| guarded \| half-conscious \| half-frozen \| halfhearted \| hard \| hard of heart \| hardened \| hardhearted \| harmonious \| hay fever \| heartless \| heavy \| hibernal \| hiemal \| ho-hum \| hollow \| Hong Kong flu \| hubristic \| hyperboreal \| hyperborean \| ice-cold \| iced \| ice-encrusted \| icelike \| iciness \| icy \| immediately \| immovable \| impassible \| impassive \| impersonal \| impotent \| inaccessible \| inane \| inanimate \| inclement \| incompatible \| indifferent \| inexcitable \| influenza \| inhibited \| inhospitable \| inimical \| insensitive \| insipid \| insolent \| insulting \| insusceptible \| introverted \| jejune \| joyless \| keen \| la grippe \| Laodicean \| laryngitis \| late \| leaden \| lifeless \| lipoid pneumonia \| lobar pneumonia \| low-spirited \| lukewarm \| lung cancer \| lung fever \| many-colored \| matching \| matter-of-fact \| medley \| modest \| monochromatic \| monochrome \| monochromic \| motley \| narcotized \| neuter \| neutral \| nipping \| nippy \| nirvanic \| nonemotional \| numbing \| obdurate \| objective \| oblivious \| obtrusive \| obtuse \| off the track \| offish \| old \| Olympian \| oppressive \| out \| out cold \| out of it \| out of touch \| overpresumptuous \| overweening \| pale \| pallid \| parti-colored \| passionless \| pedestrian \| penetrating \| perfunctory \| pharyngitis \| piercing \| pigmentary \| pinching \| pleurisy \| pleuritis \| plodding \| pneumococcal pneumonia \| pneumoconiosis \| pneumonia \| pneumonic fever \| pneumothorax \| pointless \| poky \| polar \| polychromatic \| ponderous \| presuming \| presumptuous \| prismatic \| procacious \| promptly \| pushy \| quinsy \| rainbow \| raw \| remote \| removed \| repressed \| reserved \| restrained \| reticent \| retiring \| rheum \| rigorous \| seclusive \| self-absorbed \| semiconscious \| senseless \| severe \| sexless \| shaky \| sharp \| shivering \| shivery \| shrinking \| Siberian \| siderosis \| silicosis \| sleety \| slow \| slushy \| snappy \| sniffles \| solemn \| somber \| sore throat \| soulless \| spaced out \| spectral \| spiritless \| stale \| standoff \| standoffish \| stereotyped \| sterile \| stiff \| stodgy \| stone-cold \| stoned \| stone-dead \| stonyhearted \| strained \| strung out \| stuffy \| subdued \| subzero \| supercooled \| superficial \| suppressed \| swine flu \| tasteless \| tedious \| tense \| tepid \| the sniffles \| the snuffles \| thoroughly \| tinctorial \| tingent \| toning \| tonsilitis \| trite \| unaffable \| unaffectionate \| unamiable \| unamicable \| unapproachable \| uncaring \| uncongenial \| unconscious \| uncordial \| undemonstrative \| undersexed \| unemotional \| unenthusiastic \| unexpansive \| unfeeling \| unfriendly \| ungenial \| unharmonious \| unheated \| unimpassioned \| unimpressionable \| unlively \| unloving \| unmerciful \| unmoved \| unmoving \| unnatural \| unpassionate \| unprepared \| unready \| unreservedly \| unresponding \| unresponsive \| unsexed \| unsexual \| unsociable \| unsusceptible \| unsympathetic \| untouchable \| uppish \| uppity \| vapid \| variegated \| virus pneumonia \| warm \| weak \| wet pleurisy \| whooping cough \| winterbound \| winterlike \| wintery \| wintry \| with chattering teeth \| withdrawn \| wooden \| zealless \| zonked \| zonked out See Also \| chill \| chilliness \| communicable disease \| cool \| cool \| coolness \| frostiness \| frozen \| gelidity \| head cold \| iciness \| respiratory disease \| respiratory disorder \| rhinorrhea \| temperature \| temperature \| vasoconstrictive \| vasoconstrictor Cold In Webster's Dictionary \Cold\ (k[=o]ld), a. [Compar. {Colder} (-[~e]r); superl. {Coldest}.] [OE. cold, cald, AS. cald, ceald; akin to OS. kald, D. koud, G. kalt, Icel. kaldr, Dan. kold, Sw. kall, Goth. kalds, L. gelu frost, gelare to freeze. Orig. p. p. of AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala to freeze. Cf. {Cool}, a., {Chill}, n.] 1. Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid. ``The snowy top of cold Olympis.'' --Milton. 2. Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold. 3. Not pungent or acrid. ``Cold plants.'' --Bacon 4. Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved. A cold and unconcerned spectator. --T. Burnet. No cold relation is a zealous citizen. --Burke. 5. Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. ``Cold news for me.'' ``Cold comfort.'' --Shak. 6. Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting. What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! --B. Jonson. The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a second scene. --Addison. 7. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent. 8. Not sensitive; not acute. Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a dead man's nose. --Shak. 9. Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. 10. (Paint.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. {Warm}, 8. {Cold abscess}. See under {Abscess}. {Cold blast} See under {Blast}, n., 2. {Cold blood}. See under {Blood}, n., 8. {Cold chill}, an ague fit. --Wright. {Cold chisel}, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness, for cutting cold metal. --Weale. {Cold cream}. See under {Cream}. {Cold slaw}. See {Cole slaw}. {In cold blood}, without excitement or passion; deliberately. He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over. --Sir W. Scott. {To give one the cold shoulder}, to treat one with neglect. Syn: Gelid; bleak; frigid; chill; indifferent; unconcerned; passionless; reserved; unfeeling; stoical. \Cold\, n. 1. The relative absence of heat or warmth. 2. The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness. When she saw her lord prepared to part, A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart. --Dryden. 3. (Med.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh. {Cold sore} (Med.), a vesicular eruption appearing about the mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any disease attended with fever. {To leave one out in the cold}, to overlook or neglect him. [Colloq.] \Cold\, v. i. To become cold. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Cold Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cold?

[n] the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor"
[n] the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"
[n] a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs); "will they never find a cure for the common cold?"
[adj] unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication; "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold"
[adj] lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave"
[adj] of a seeker; far from the object sought
[adj] feeling or showing no enthusiasm; "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play"
[adj] having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"
[adj] 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"
[adj] 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"
[adj] without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"
[adj] sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman"
[adj] so intense as to be almost uncontrollable; "cold fury gripped him"
[adj] no longer new; uninteresting; "cold (or stale) news"
[adj] marked by errorless familiarity; "had her lines cold before rehearsals started"
[adj] (color) giving no sensation of warmth; "a cold bluish gray"

Cold In Webster's Dictionary

\Cold\ (k[=o]ld), a. [Compar. {Colder} (-[~e]r); superl.
{Coldest}.] [OE. cold, cald, AS. cald, ceald; akin to OS.
kald, D. koud, G. kalt, Icel. kaldr, Dan. kold, Sw. kall,
Goth. kalds, L. gelu frost, gelare to freeze. Orig. p. p. of
AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala to freeze. Cf. {Cool}, a.,
{Chill}, n.]
1. Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or
   hot; gelid; frigid. ``The snowy top of cold Olympis.''
   --Milton.

2. Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the
   absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.

3. Not pungent or acrid. ``Cold plants.'' --Bacon

4. Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion;
   spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.

         A cold and unconcerned spectator.     --T. Burnet.

         No cold relation is a zealous citizen. --Burke.

5. Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. ``Cold news for
   me.'' ``Cold comfort.'' --Shak.

6. Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.

         What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the
         better part of life in!               --B. Jonson.

         The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a
         second scene.                         --Addison.

7. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but
   feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.

8. Not sensitive; not acute.

         Smell this business with a sense as cold As is a
         dead man's nose.                      --Shak.

9. Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object,
   of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.

10. (Paint.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. {Warm}, 8.

{Cold abscess}. See under {Abscess}.

{Cold blast} See under {Blast}, n., 2.

{Cold blood}. See under {Blood}, n., 8.

{Cold chill}, an ague fit. --Wright.

{Cold chisel}, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness,
   for cutting cold metal. --Weale.

{Cold cream}. See under {Cream}.

{Cold slaw}. See {Cole slaw}.

{In cold blood}, without excitement or passion; deliberately.

         He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over.
                                               --Sir W.
                                               Scott.

{To give one the cold shoulder}, to treat one with neglect.

Syn: Gelid; bleak; frigid; chill; indifferent; unconcerned;
     passionless; reserved; unfeeling; stoical.


\Cold\, n.
1. The relative absence of heat or warmth.

2. The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness
   or chillness.

         When she saw her lord prepared to part, A deadly
         cold ran shivering to her heart.      --Dryden.

3. (Med.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by
   exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.

{Cold sore} (Med.), a vesicular eruption appearing about the
   mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any
   disease attended with fever.



{To leave one out in the cold}, to overlook or neglect him.
   [Colloq.]


\Cold\, v. i.
To become cold. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

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