| 单词 | freeze |
| 释义 | freeze (friːz ) Word forms: freezes , freezing , froze , frozen 1. verb B1+ If a liquid or a substance containing a liquid freezes, or if something freezes it, it becomes solid because of low temperatures. If the temperature drops below 0°C, water freezes. [VERB] The ground froze solid. [VERB adjective] ...the discovery of how to freeze water at higher temperatures. [VERB noun] ...frozen puddles. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: ice over or up, harden, stiffen, solidify 2. verb B1+ If you freeze something such as food, you preserve it by storing it at a temperature below freezing point. You can also talk about how well food freezes. You can freeze the soup at this stage. [VERB noun] Most fresh herbs will freeze successfully. [VERB adverb] Synonyms: deep freeze, cool, ice, chill 3. verb B1+ If something such as a pipe or machine freezes, it becomes blocked or stiff with ice or frozen liquid. The water pipes will freeze. [VERB] 4. verb B1+ When it freezes outside, the temperature falls below freezing point. What if it rained and then froze all through those months? [VERB] Freeze is also a noun. The trees were damaged by a freeze in December. 5. verb B2 If you freeze, you feel extremely cold. The windows didn't fit at the bottom so for a while we froze even in the middle of summer. [VERB] Your hands will freeze doing this. [VERB] 6. verb B2 If someone who is moving freezes, they suddenly stop and become completely still and quiet. [written] She froze when the beam of the flashlight struck her. [VERB] Synonyms: stop, stop dead, stop suddenly, stop in your tracks 7. verb If the government or a company freeze things such as prices or wages, they state officially that they will not allow them to increase for a fixed period of time. [business] They want the government to freeze prices. [VERB noun] Wages have been frozen and workers laid off. [VERB noun] Synonyms: fix, hold, limit, hold up Freeze is also a noun. A wage freeze was imposed on all staff earlier this month. ...a freeze on the prices of consumer goods. 8. verb If a government freezes a plan or process, they state officially that they will not allow it to continue for a period of time. Britain has already frozen its aid programme. [VERB noun] Diplomatic relations were frozen until August this year. [be VERB-ed] Freeze is also a noun. ...a freeze in nuclear weapons programs. 9. verb If someone in authority freezes something such as a bank account, fund, or property, they obtain a legal order which states that it cannot be used or sold for a particular period of time. [business] The governor's action freezes 300,000 accounts. [VERB noun] Under these laws, he said, Mr. Rice's assets could have been frozen. [be VERB-ed] Freeze is also a noun. ...a freeze on private savings. 10. See also freezing, frozen Phrasal verbs: freeze out phrasal verb If you freeze someone out of an activity or situation, you prevent them from being involved in it by creating difficulties or by being unfriendly. Other traders did everything they could to freeze us out of the business. [VERB noun PARTICLE + of] freeze over phrasal verb B2 If something freezes over, it becomes covered with a layer of ice or other frozen substance. The air temperature was well below freezing, and lakes and rivers froze over. [VERB PARTICLE] The lakes are still frozen over. [VERB-ed PARTICLE] freeze up phrasal verb B2 If something freezes up or if something freezes it up, it becomes completely covered or blocked with ice. ...lavatories that often freeze up in winter. [VERB PARTICLE] Ice could freeze up their torpedo release mechanisms. [VERB PARTICLE noun] Idioms: cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey [British, informal] extremely cold It was a cold snap in the middle of spring with winds cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: announce a freeze A pay and hiring freeze has been announced. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The Government has already announced a pay freeze for doctors as part of its spending cuts. The Sun (2010) Amid fears that large numbers of supporters are being priced out of live matches, several clubs reduced their prices or announced price freezes for last season. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The subsequent budget freeze for science was greeted with relief, given that most education budgets were severely cut. Times, Sunday Times The extra expenditure from next year breaks a defence budget freeze that was capped at €31.4 billion a year in 2013. Times, Sunday Times He campaigned on a budget freeze, a ten percent flat tax and a line-item veto. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But a budget freeze can have other- often unintended- consequences. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A budget freeze can have political implications, especially in the case of the government, but also where businesses are concerned. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This indicates that the rate at which banks lend to each other has risen despite steps by governments worldwide to tackle the credit freeze. Times, Sunday Times Investors should be more confident in lending to each other, which should help to thaw the credit freeze. Times, Sunday Times Now the credit freeze has acted like the ice age in reverse and left the dinosaur standing. Times, Sunday Times The financial firms that plunged the world into a credit freeze have, in many cases, been bailed out. Times, Sunday Times But the credit freeze cannot be allowed to continue indefinitely. Times, Sunday Times How many women know you can freeze your eggs in your twenties and use them in your forties? Times, Sunday Times (2013) Women can pay more than 10,000 to freeze their eggs. Times, Sunday Times (2016) I could still freeze my eggs. Times,Sunday Times (2020) This was partly due to better meal planning and freezing excess food. Times,Sunday Times (2020) There were also signs that consumers were changing the way they shop for groceries, with frozen food enjoying a revival. The Sun (2008) You can freeze foods right up to the use by date. The Sun (2016) Supercooled water droplets, or freezing rain, strike a surface but do not freeze instantly. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If such cold spaces or the pipes serving them are not well insulated and are exposed to ambient humidity, the moisture will freeze instantly depending on the freezer temperature. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Frozen veg have a bad reputation, but they are picked and frozen instantly and retain many of their nutrients. The Sun Even in this, with its four fires, any water spilled froze instantly on the floor. Times, Sunday Times So energy companies will have to freeze prices and landlords freeze rents. The Sun (2014) We've frozen season ticket prices for next season - we want us all to stick together. The Sun (2014) How nice of them to freeze prices this winter. The Sun (2011) It has also emerged the number of firms freezing wages has gone up. The Sun (2012) But hundreds of thousands of social workers, classroom assistants and street cleaners have had their wages frozen. The Sun (2010) More than half of companies say they will freeze wages this year Times, Sunday Times (2009) It was bitterly cold now and the ground was frozen hard. Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781 (1990) This was soon followed by a cold wind that swept in from the east, leaving southern England frozen hard. Times, Sunday Times (2016) These are created when the wet ground freezes to ice after a rapid and extreme drop in temperature. Times, Sunday Times They are created by small explosions as the ground freezes following an extreme drop in temperature. Times, Sunday Times Once winter has properly set in, and the ground freezes, they'll be forced to fly farther afield to find food, which will turn their fat into muscle. Times, Sunday Times After a sudden and extreme drop in temperature, the ground freezes so rapidly that its moisture suddenly turns to ice, this then expands and cracks, producing a loud explosive noise. Times, Sunday Times As the water in the ground freezes in winter, it expands. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A hiring freeze announced two weeks ago will remain. Times, Sunday Times The company has taken on 150 new staff now that the hiring freeze of the past couple of years has been lifted. Times, Sunday Times A pay and hiring freeze has been announced. Times, Sunday Times The group announced a crisis cost-cutting plan, including redundancies and a hiring freeze, aimed at saving between ¤110 million and ¤125 million. Times, Sunday Times The think-tank believes 27,000 will be lost in 2011, and that employers will impose a hiring freeze next year. Times, Sunday Times It could impose a freeze or raise them slightly - but probably by less than 2.40 a week. The Sun Imposing a freeze on business rates in 2013. Times, Sunday Times He has imposed a freeze on new hires, ordered a review of its freelance bill and halted discretionary spending, such as buying tables at award shows. Times,Sunday Times It imposed a freeze on the base pay of all executives. Times, Sunday Times But the research also revealed employers are keeping a tight rein on salaries - with half planning a total pay freeze. The Sun (2009) Exempt our war-weary troops from the pay freeze now. The Sun (2012) Like all public servants they are subject to a pay freeze. The Sun (2011) The government has already put a freeze on all new consulting work. Times, Sunday Times (2010) A lot of firms have put recruitment freezes in place. Times, Sunday Times (2008) But I've also read that some lenders are putting a freeze on new mortgage offers. Times,Sunday Times (2020) Unlike many other government departments that face an immediate spending freeze, its income will carry on increasing in real terms. Times, Sunday Times Democrats are evenly divided between spending cuts and a spending freeze. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He has advocated for an across-the-board spending freeze, including entitlement programs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But he will inflict another round of bitter cuts and spending freezes. The Sun He also needs to extend a temporary freeze on fuel duty and temporary stamp duty concessions. Times, Sunday Times During lockdown a number of open-ended property funds were suspended because of uncertainty about property valuations and the temporary freeze in sales. Times,Sunday Times And there's the temporary freeze on energy prices. The Sun The situation has, understandably, made him feel 'very anxious', amid fears that the temporary freeze on his funds might become a permanent one. Times, Sunday Times Such impurities don’t fit in the regular hexagonal structure of ice that forms as water freezes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You couldn't tell us why hot water freezes faster than cold. Times, Sunday Times The updraughts inside the cloud also hurl raindrops so high that the water freezes into pellets of ice, before falling downwards and collecting more rain. Times, Sunday Times Leave outside overnight, so that the water freezes. Times, Sunday Times Eventually, the whole tube of water freezes solid, leaving a marvellous pinnacle of ice standing up. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 冻结, 冷冻 Japanese: 凍る, ･･･を冷凍する |
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