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freezing
freeze F0314100 (frēz)v. froze (frōz), fro·zen (frō′zən), freez·ing, freez·es v.intr.1. a. To pass from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.b. To acquire a surface or coat of ice from cold: The lake froze over in January. Bridges freeze before the adjacent roads.2. To become clogged or jammed because of the formation of ice: The pipes froze in the basement.3. To be at that degree of temperature at which ice forms: It may freeze tonight.4. To be killed or harmed by cold or frost: They almost froze to death. Mulch keeps garden plants from freezing.5. To be or feel uncomfortably cold: Aren't you freezing without a coat?6. a. To become fixed, stuck, or attached by or as if by frost: The lock froze up with rust.b. To stop functioning properly, usually temporarily: My computer screen froze when I opened the infected program.7. a. To become motionless or immobile, as from surprise or attentiveness: I heard a sound and froze in my tracks.b. To become unable to act or speak, as from fear: froze in front of the audience.8. To become rigid and inflexible; solidify: an opinion that froze into dogma.v.tr.1. a. To convert into ice.b. To cause ice to form upon.c. To cause to congeal or stiffen from extreme cold: winter cold that froze the ground.2. To preserve (foods, for example) by subjecting to freezing temperatures.3. To damage, kill, or make inoperative by cold or by the formation of ice.4. To make very cold; chill.5. To immobilize, as with fear or shock.6. To chill with an icy or formal manner: froze me with one look.7. To stop the motion or progress of: The negotiations were frozen by the refusal of either side to compromise; froze the video in order to discuss the composition of the frame.8. a. To fix (prices or wages, for example) at a given or current level.b. To prohibit further manufacture or use of.c. To prevent or restrict the exchange, withdrawal, liquidation, or granting of by governmental action: freeze investment loans during a depression; froze foreign assets held by US banks.9. To anesthetize by chilling.10. Sports To keep possession of (a ball or puck) so as to deny an opponent the opportunity to score.n.1. a. The act of freezing.b. The state of being frozen.2. A spell of cold weather; a frost.3. A restriction that forbids a quantity from rising above a given or current level: a freeze on city jobs; a proposed freeze on the production of nuclear weapons.Phrasal Verb: freeze out To shut out or exclude, as by cold or unfriendly treatment: The others tried to freeze me out of the conversation.Idiom: freeze (someone's) blood To affect with terror or dread; horrify: a scream that froze my blood.
[Middle English fresen, from Old English frēosan; see preus- in Indo-European roots.]
freez′a·ble adj.Word History: Describing the landscape of Hell in Book II of Paradise Lost, Milton depicts "a frozen Continent ... beat with perpetual storms ... the parching Air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of Fire." It is evident from these lines that frore has some relationship to frozen, but what exactly is it? The Modern English paradigm for the verb freeze is freeze, froze, frozen, with a z throughout. However, in Old English, the principal parts were frēosan, frēas, froren. The r in the past participle froren is from a prehistoric s that became r by Verner's Law, a sound shift that changed s in certain positions into r. (The effects of Verner's Law can also be seen in such Modern English pairs as was and were, and lose and (love-)lorn.) During the Middle English period, a new past participle frosen was created using the s from the first two principal parts; this survives as frozen nowadays. The older participle, spelled froren or frore in Middle English, lived on as a poetic word for "cold," but well before Milton's day it had become archaic in the standard language.freezing (ˈfriːzɪŋ) adjinformal extremely coldfreezingChange of state from liquid to solid.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  freezing - the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solidfreezechilling, cooling, temperature reduction - the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperaturefreeze-drying, lyophilisation, lyophilization - a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimesicing, frost - the formation of frost or ice on a surfacephase change, phase transition, physical change, state change - a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition |
freezingadjective1. icy, biting, bitter, raw, chill, chilled, penetrating, arctic, numbing, polar, Siberian, frosty, glacial, wintry, parky (Brit. informal), cold as ice, frost-bound, cutting a freezing January afternoon2. frozen, chilled, numb, chilly, very cold, shivery, benumbed, frozen to the marrow You must be freezing!freezingadjectiveVery cold:arctic, boreal, frigid, frosty, gelid, glacial, icy, polar, wintry.Archaic: frore.Idiom: bitter cold.Translationsfreeze (friːz) – past tense froze (frəuz) : past participle frozen (ˈfrəuzn) – verb1. to make into or become ice. It's so cold that the river has frozen over. 結冰 结冰2. (of weather) to be at or below freezing-point. If it freezes again tonight all my plants will die. 冰凍 冰冻3. to make or be very cold. If you had stayed out all night in the snow you might have frozen to death (= died of exposure to cold). 凍僵 冻僵4. to make (food) very cold in order to preserve it. You can freeze the rest of that food and eat it later. 冷凍 冷冻5. to make or become stiff, still or unable to move (with fear etc). She froze when she heard the strange noise. 愣住 愣住6. to fix prices, wages etc at a certain level. If the situation does not improve, wages will be frozen again. 凍結 冻结 noun a period of very cold weather when temperatures are below freezing-point. How long do you think the freeze will last? 嚴寒期 严寒期ˈfreezer noun a cabinet for keeping food at, or bringing it down to, a temperature below freezing-point. 冰箱 冰箱ˈfreezing adjective very cold. This room's freezing. 極冷的 极冷的ˈfrozen adjective 冰凍的 冰冻的ˈfreezing-point noun the temperature at which a liquid becomes solid. The freezing-point of water is 0 centigrade. 冰點 冰点freeze up to stop moving or functioning because of extreme cold. The car engine froze up. 凍結 冻结- It's freezing (US)
It's freezing cold (UK) → 天气很冷
IdiomsSeefreezefreezing
freezing, change of a substance from the liquid to the solid state. The temperature at which freezing occurs for a pure crystalline solid is called the freezing point and is a characteristic of the particular substance. The reverse process, the change of a solid to a liquid, is called melting. See melting pointmelting point,
temperature at which a substance changes its state from solid to liquid. Under standard atmospheric pressure different pure crystalline solids will each melt at a different specific temperature; thus melting point is a characteristic of a substance and can be used
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process for drawing heat from substances to lower their temperature, often for purposes of preservation. Refrigeration in its modern, portable form also depends on insulating materials that are thin yet effective.
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freez·ing (frē'zing), 1. The temperature below which a liquid becomes solid. 2. Congealing, stiffening, or hardening by exposure to cold. freez·ing (frēz'ing) Congealing, stiffening, or hardening by exposure to cold. Patient discussion about freezingQ. why my hands are getting purple and freezing? A. thank you, but these answers are not correct answers for my question More discussions about freezingFinancialSeeAbendAcronymsSeeFZfreezing
Related to freezing: freezing coldSynonyms for freezingadj icySynonyms- icy
- biting
- bitter
- raw
- chill
- chilled
- penetrating
- arctic
- numbing
- polar
- Siberian
- frosty
- glacial
- wintry
- parky
- cold as ice
- frost-bound
- cutting
adj frozenSynonyms- frozen
- chilled
- numb
- chilly
- very cold
- shivery
- benumbed
- frozen to the marrow
Synonyms for freezingadj very coldSynonyms- arctic
- boreal
- frigid
- frosty
- gelid
- glacial
- icy
- polar
- wintry
- frore
Synonyms for freezingnoun the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solidSynonymsRelated Words- chilling
- cooling
- temperature reduction
- freeze-drying
- lyophilisation
- lyophilization
- icing
- frost
- phase change
- phase transition
- physical change
- state change
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