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FREEZING
freeze, freezing
(noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
freezing (comparative more freezing, superlative most freezing)
(literally) Suffering or causing frost
(by extension, chiefly, hyperbole) Very cold
Synonyms
• (literally): frosty, frigorific
• (very cold): ice-cold, icy
Noun
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.
Synonyms
• frost
Verb
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 32Âș Fahr., and at 0Âș Centigrade.
FREEZE
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. freĂłsan; 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 32Âș above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40Âș 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
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HABIT
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