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freeze
(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.
Phrasal Verb: 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.
freeze out
Idiom: To shut out or exclude, as by cold or unfriendly treatment: The others tried to freeze me out of the conversation.
freeze (someone's) blood
To affect with terror or dread; horrify: a scream that froze my blood.
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.
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freezing
(ˈfriːzɪŋ)adj
informal extremely cold
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freezing
Change of state from liquid to solid.
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| Noun | 1. |  freezing - the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solidfreeze-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 sublimes phase 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 |
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freezing
adjective
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Translations
بَارِدٌ جِداًبارد جدا، مُجَمِّد
ledovýmrazivý
frysendeiskold
jäätävän kylmä
leden
hideg: nagyon hideg
ískaldur
凍るような
혹한의
iskall
เย็นเฉียบ
çok soğukdondurucu
lạnh giá
freezing
[ˈfriːzɪŋ]A. ADJ → glacial, helado
I'm freezing → estoy helado
it's freezing in here → aquí se congela uno, aquí hace un frío que pela
I'm freezing → estoy helado
it's freezing in here → aquí se congela uno, aquí hace un frío que pela
C. N
1. (also freezing point) → punto m de congelación
five degrees below freezing → cinco grados bajo cero
five degrees below freezing → cinco grados bajo cero
2. (= deep freezing) → (ultra)congelación f
3. (fig) [of prices, wages, assets] → congelación f
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
freezing
[ˈfriːzɪŋ] adj
[person] → gelé(e); [hands, feet] → gelé(e)
I'm freezing! → Je suis gelé!
Your hands are freezing cold → Tu as les mains gelées.
I'm freezing! → Je suis gelé!
Your hands are freezing cold → Tu as les mains gelées.
[water] (= very cold) → gelé(e)
n
3 degrees below freezing → 3 degrés au-dessous de zérofreezing point n → point m de congélation
below freezing point → au-dessous de zéro
3 degrees below freezing → 3 degrés au-dessous de zérofreezing point n → point m de congélation
below freezing point → au-dessous de zéro
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freezing
adj
n
(Cook) → Einfrieren nt
(= freezing point) → der Gefrierpunkt; above/below freezing → über/unter null, über/unter dem Gefrierpunkt; to rise above freezing → über null or über den Gefrierpunkt steigen; to fall below freezing → unter null or unter den Gefrierpunkt fallen
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freezing
[ˈfriːzɪŋ]Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
freeze
(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.
2. (of weather) to be at or below freezing-point. If it freezes again tonight all my plants will die.
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).
4. to make (food) very cold in order to preserve it. You can freeze the rest of that food and eat it later.
5. to make or become stiff, still or unable to move (with fear etc). She froze when she heard the strange noise.
6. to fix prices, wages etc at a certain level. If the situation does not improve, wages will be frozen again.
noun a period of very cold weather when temperatures are below freezing-point. How long do you think the freeze will last?
ˈfreezer noun a cabinet for keeping food at, or bringing it down to, a temperature below freezing-point.
ˈfreezing adjective very cold. This room's freezing.
ˈfrozen adjectiveˈfreezing-point noun
the temperature at which a liquid becomes solid. The freezing-point of water is 0 centigrade.
freeze up to stop moving or functioning because of extreme cold. The car engine froze up.
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freezing
→ بَارِدٌ جِداً mrazivý frysende eiskalt παγερός congelado jäätävän kylmä glacé leden gelido 凍るような 혹한의 ijskoud iskald mrożący gelado ледяной iskall เย็นเฉียบ dondurucu lạnh giá 冰冻的Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
freez·ing
n. congelación;
___ point → punto de ___.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
- It's freezing (US)
It's freezing cold (UK)
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