freeze, freezing
(noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
Source: WordNet® 3.1
freezing (comparative more freezing, superlative most freezing)
(literally) Suffering or causing frost
(by extension, chiefly, hyperbole) Very cold
• (literally): frosty, frigorific
• (very cold): ice-cold, icy
freezing (countable and uncountable, plural freezings)
(uncountable, physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
(countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
• frost
freezing
present participle of freeze
Source: Wiktionary
Freez"ing, a.
Definition: Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner.
– Frrez"ing*ly, adv. Freezing machine. See Ice machine, under Ice.
– Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold.
– Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezing point is at 32º Fahr., and at 0º Centigrade.
Freeze, n. (Arch.)
Definition: A frieze. [Obs.]
Freeze, v. i. [imp. Froze; p. p. Frozen; p. pr. & vb. n. Freezing.] Etym: [OE. fresen, freosen, AS. freósan; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushva ice, prush to spirt. Frost.]
1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.
Note: Water freezes at 32º above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40º below zero.
2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins. To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.]
Freeze, v. t.
1. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
2. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill. A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life. Shak.
Freeze, n.
Definition: The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed. [Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 June 2025
(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
