Definitions for Cold

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Cold cold

Spelling: [kohld]

IPA: /koʊld/

Cold is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in Cold (cdlo).

Definitions for Cold

noun

1. the relative absence of heat:
2. the sensation produced by loss of heat from the body, as by contact with anything having a lower temperature than that of the body:
3. cold weather:
4. Also called common cold. a respiratory disorder characterized by sneezing, sore throat, coughing, etc., caused by an allergic reaction or by a viral, bacterial, or mixed infection.

Idioms

1. catch / take cold, to get or suffer from a cold:
2. go cold, Slang. (in sports and games) to become unproductive or ineffective; be unable to score.
3. in cold blood. blood (def 20).
4. in from the cold, out of a position or condition of exile, concealment, isolation, or alienation:
5. left out in the cold, neglected; ignored; forgotten: Also, out in the cold.
6. throw cold water on, to disparage; disapprove of; dampen the enthusiasm of:

adverb

1. with complete competence, thoroughness, or certainty; absolutely:
2. without preparation or prior notice:
3. in an abrupt, unceremonious manner:
4. Metalworking. at a temperature below that at which recrystallization can occur (sometimes used in combination):

adjective

1. having a relatively low temperature; having little or no warmth:
2. feeling an uncomfortable lack of warmth; chilled:
3. having a temperature lower than the normal temperature of the human body:
4. lacking in passion, emotion, enthusiasm, ardor, etc.; dispassionate:
5. not affectionate, cordial, or friendly; unresponsive:
6. lacking sensual desire:
7. failing to excite feeling or interest:
8. unexcitable; imperturbable:
9. depressing; dispiriting:
10. unconscious because of a severe blow, shock, etc.:
11. lacking the warmth of life; lifeless:
12. faint; weak:
13. (in games) distant from the object of search or the correct answer.
14. Slang. (in sports and games) not scoring or winning; ineffective:
15. Art. having cool colors, especially muted tones tending toward grayish blue. being a cool color.
16. slow to absorb heat, as a soil containing a large amount of clay and hence retentive of moisture.
17. Metalworking. noting or pertaining to any process involving plastic deformation of a metal at a temperature below that at which recrystallization can occur because of the strain:

Origin of Cold

before 950; Middle English; Old English cald, ceald; cognate with Gothic kalds, Old Norse kaldr, German kalt, Dutch koud; akin to Latin gel- in gelidus gelid

Examples for Cold

When he awoke the cold light of the morning was stealing in.

Combine the cold butter and flour in the bowl of a food processor.

He would shake a chilled Coke, and then spray the soda into a cold glass of milk.

This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.

Accusing his opponents of being locked in a cold War mind-set, it is Stone who is beholden to old orthodoxies.

You can't get them too cold for Perce at breakfast, nowadays.

The struggle to keep alive during the cold period was terrible.

cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.

It had grown much too cold to do without some sort of artificial covering.

Hunger and cold seemed to have driven them from their former homes.