COOLER

cooler, ice chest

(noun) a refrigerator for cooling liquids

cooler, tank

(noun) a cell for violent prisoners

cooler

(noun) an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

cooler (countable and uncountable, plural coolers)

(countable) Anything which cools.

(countable) An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping.

A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.

(US, countable or uncountable) A mixed drink, especially one served chilled.

(US, slang) A prison.

(poker, gambling, colloquial, countable) A cold deck.

(countable) A bouncer or doorman.

Synonyms

• (insulated box)

car fridge

cool bag, cool box (UK)

chilly bin (New Zealand)

esky (Australia)

ice chest

Adjective

cooler

comparative form of cool

Anagrams

• recool

Source: Wiktionary


Cool"er, n.

Definition: That which cools, or abates heat or excitement. if acid things were used only as coolers, they would not be so proper in this case. Arbuthnot.

2. Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.

COOL

Cool, a. [Compar. Cooler; superl. Coolest.] Etym: [AS. col; akin to D. koel, G. kühl, OHG. chouli, Dan. kölig, Sw. kylig, also to AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala. See Cold, and cf. Chill.]

1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. Fanned with cool winds. Milton.

2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater. For a patriot, too cool. Goldsmith.

3. Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.

4. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.

5. Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior. Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable. Hawthorne.

6. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. He had lost a cool hundred. Fielding. Leaving a cool thousand to Mr.Matthew Pocket. Dickens.

Syn.

– Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.

Cool, n.

Definition: A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.

Cool, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cooled; p.pr. & vb.n. Cooling.]

1. To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water. Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue. Luke xvi. 24.

2. To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate. We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts. Shak. To cool the heels, to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.] Dryden.

Cool, v. i.

1. To become less hot; to lose heat. I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool. Shak.

2. To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate. I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I should cool. Congreve.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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