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Cold   /koʊld/   Listen
Cold

adjective
(compar. colder; superl. coldest)
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 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 and unaffectionate person" , "A cold impersonal manner" , "Cold logic" , "The concert left me cold"
3.
Having lost freshness through passage of time.  "Dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"
4.
(color) giving no sensation of warmth.
5.
Marked by errorless familiarity.
6.
Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new.  Synonyms: dusty, moth-eaten, stale.  "Stale news"
7.
So intense as to be almost uncontrollable.
8.
Sexually unresponsive.  Synonym: frigid.  "A frigid woman"
9.
Without compunction or human feeling.  Synonyms: cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate.  "Cold-blooded killing" , "Insensate destruction"
10.
Feeling or showing no enthusiasm.  "A cold response to the new play"
11.
Unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication.  "Pass out cold"
12.
Of a seeker; far from the object sought.
13.
Lacking the warmth of life.
noun
1.
A mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs).  Synonym: common cold.
2.
The absence of heat.  Synonyms: coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature.  "Come in out of the cold" , "Cold is a vasoconstrictor"
3.
The sensation produced by low temperatures.  Synonym: coldness.  "The cold helped clear his head"



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"Cold" Quotes from Famous Books



... hath made the best vinyard that I have heard of in England. He sayes that the Navarre grape is the best for our climate, and that the eastern sunn does most comfort the vine, by putting off the cold. Mr. Jo. Ash, of Teffont Ewyas, has a pretty vineyard of about six acres, made anno 1665. Sir Walter Erneley, Baronet, told me, a little before he died, that he was making one at Stert, I thinke, neer ...
— The Natural History of Wiltshire • John Aubrey

... afternoon's work, because it rested her to go into it, and she always hoped to snatch a few minutes to sit down in the soft chair and look about her, and think about the wonderful good fortune of the child who owned such surroundings and who went out on the cold days in beautiful hats and coats one tried to catch a glimpse of through ...
— A Little Princess • Frances Hodgson Burnett

... this is so, that these painted Gospel leaves stuck on the cell walls are merely such mechanical aids to devotion, explains the curious and startling treatment of some of the subjects, which are yet, despite the seeming novelty and impressiveness, very cold, undramatic, and unimaginative. Thus, there is the fresco of Christ enthroned, blindfold, with alongside of Him a bodiless scoffing head, with hat raised, and in the act of spitting; buffeting hands, equally detached ...
— Renaissance Fancies and Studies - Being a Sequel to Euphorion • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)

... that a man's life is worth saving, whoever it belongs to. (Richard makes him an ironical bow. Anderson returns the bow humorously.) Come: you'll have a cup of tea, to prevent you catching cold? ...
— The Devil's Disciple • George Bernard Shaw

... answer to this is twofold. Firstly, the theatre has never been, and never will be, a moral dissecting room, nor has the theatrical audience anything in common with a class of students dispassionately following a professor's demonstration of cold scientific facts. Secondly, in the particular case in point, the dramatist makes a manifest appeal to our sympathies. There can be no doubt that we are intended to take Lona's part, as against the representatives of propriety and convention assembled ...
— Play-Making - A Manual of Craftsmanship • William Archer


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