| 单词 | cold |
| 释义 | cold (once / 33 pages) 1adjn 2adj 3adj 4adj 5adj 6adj 7adj 8n Cold is the opposite of hot. It can refer to temperature, passion, friendliness, and even your personality. All cold things are icy in some way. Your tea can be cold, and someone can be cold to you. If a play leaves you cold, you don't like it. If police find a criminal’s trail has gone cold, they're out of clues. If you're searching for something, and someone tells you you’re "very cold," it means you're not very close to the prize. A cold is also the infection that gives you a runny nose and sore throat. WORD FAMILYcold: colder, coldest, coldly, coldness, colds+/coldness: coldnesses USAGE EXAMPLESSzeles imbues his performance with a humanity that is missing from what is a rather cold portrayal from Cross. Los Angeles Times(Dec 01, 2016) The site, on S Norfolk Street, currently houses a warehouse, cold storage facility, and retail and office buildings totaling 963,000 square feet in all. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) I dressed for the moon in fleece and rain layers and I was still cold. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1 1adj 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 Syn|Ant frozen turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold acoldof persons; feeling cold algidchilly arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polarextremely cold bleak, cutting, rawunpleasantly cold and damp chilly, parkyappreciably or disagreeably cold crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappypleasantly cold and invigorating frigorificcausing cold; cooling or chilling frorevery cold frosty, rimed, rimycovered with frost heatlesswithout generating heat ice-coldas cold as ice refrigerant, refrigeratingcausing cooling or freezing refrigeratedmade or kept cold by refrigeration shiverycold enough to cause shivers stone-coldcompletely cold unheated, unwarmednot having been heated or warmed coolneither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat hot used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning baking, baking hotas hot as if in an oven blistering, blisteryhot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters calefacient, warmingproducing the sensation of heat when applied to the body calefactive, calefactoryserving to heat calorifacientproducing heat; usually used of foods calorificheat-generating fervent, fervidextremely hot fiery, igneouslike or suggestive of fire heatablecapable of becoming hot heated, heated up, het, het upmade warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated') hottishsomewhat hot overheatedheated beyond a safe or desirable point red-hotglowing red with heat scorchinghot and dry enough to burn or parch a surface sizzlinghot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous, sultrycharacterized by oppressive heat and humidity sweltering, sweltryexcessively hot and humid or marked by sweating and faintness thermalcaused by or designed to retain heat torridextremely hot tropic, tropicalof weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics white, white-hotglowing white with heat warmhaving or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat 2adj lacking the warmth of life cold in his grave Syn dead no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life 3n the absence of heat come in out of the cold cold is a vasoconstrictor Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature heat, high temperature, hotness the presence of heat chill, gelidity, iciness coldness due to a cold environment chilliness, coolness, nipthe property of being moderately cold frostinesscoldness as evidenced by frost coolthe quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature pressor, vasoconstrictive, vasoconstrictor any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure temperaturethe degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity) 4n the sensation produced by low temperatures 2he shivered from the cold the cold helped clear his head Syn|Hyper coldness temperature the somatic sensation of cold or heat 1adj 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 Syn|Ant emotionless, passionless unmoved by feeling frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintrydevoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain passionlessnot passionate coolpsychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike hot extended meanings; especially of psychological heat; marked by intensity or vehemence especially of passion or enthusiasm fiery, flamingvery intense heatedmarked by emotional heat; vehement red-hot, sizzlingcharacterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement sensual, sultrysexually exciting or gratifying torridemotionally charged and vigorously energetic white-hotintensely zealous or fervid passionatehaving or expressing strong emotions 2adj feeling or showing no enthusiasm a cold audience a cold response to the new play Syn unenthusiastic not enthusiastic; lacking excitement or ardor 3adj sexually unresponsive was cold to his advances Syn unloving not giving or reciprocating affection 4adj without compunction or human feeling 3in cold blood cold-blooded killing Syn cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate inhumane lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion 1adj lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new Syn dusty, moth-eaten, stale unoriginal not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual 2adj having lost freshness through passage of time a cold trail dogs attempting to catch a cold scent Syn stale lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age 3adj of a seeker; far from the object sought 4Syn far located at a great distance in time or space or degree adj (color) giving no sensation of warmth 5a cold bluish grey Syn cool (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets adj marked by errorless familiarity 6had her lines cold before rehearsals started Syn perfect being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish adj so intense as to be almost uncontrollable 7cold fury gripped him Syn intense possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree adj unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication 8the boxer was out cold pass out cold Syn unconscious not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead 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? Syn|Hypo|Hyper common cold head cold a common cold affecting the nasal passages and resulting in congestion and sneezing and headache communicable disease a disease that can be communicated from one person to another respiratory disease, respiratory disorder, respiratory illnessa disease affecting the respiratory system |
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