freeze : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: freeze	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
freeze n the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid Synonym(s): freeze, freezing weather cold enough to cause freezing Synonym(s): freeze, frost an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze" Synonym(s): freeze, halt fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level; "a freeze on hiring" v stop moving or become immobilized; "When he saw the police car he froze" Synonym(s): freeze, stop dead change to ice; "The water in the bowl froze" Antonym(s): boil be cold; "I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on" cause to freeze; "Freeze the leftover food" stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country" Synonym(s): freeze, suspend be very cold, below the freezing point; "It is freezing in Kalamazoo" change from a liquid to a solid when cold; "Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit" Synonym(s): freeze, freeze out, freeze down prohibit the conversion or use of (assets); "Blocked funds"; "Freeze the assets of this hostile government" Synonym(s): freeze, block, immobilize, immobilise Antonym(s): free, release, unblock, unfreeze anesthetize by cold suddenly behave coldly and formally; "She froze when she saw her ex-husband"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Freeze \Freeze\, v. t. {To freeze out}, to drive out or exclude by cold or by cold treatment; to force to withdraw; as, to be frozen out of one's room in winter; to freeze out a competitor. [Colloq.] A railroad which had a London connection must not be allowed to freeze out one that had no such connection. --A. T. Hadley. It is sometimes a long time before a player who is frozen out can get into a game again. --R. F. Foster. d8Freiherr \[d8]Frei"herr`\, n.; pl. {Freiherrn}. [G., lit., free lord.] In Germany and Austria, a baron.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Freeze \Freeze\, n. (Arch.) A frieze. [Obs.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Freeze \Freeze\, v. i. [imp. {Froze}; p. p. {Frozen}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Freezing}.] [OE. fresen, freosen, AS. fre[a2]san; 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. prushv[be] ice, prush to spirt. [?] 18. Cf. {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 32[deg] above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40[deg] 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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Freeze \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Freeze \Freeze\, n. The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed. [Colloq.]
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
freeze v. To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be released with some hope of stability. Carries the strong implication that the item in question will `unfreeze' at some future date. "OK, fix that bug and we'll freeze for release." There are more specific constructions on this term. A `feature freeze', for example, locks out modifications intended to introduce new features but still allows bugfixes and completion of existing features; a `code freeze' connotes no more changes at all. At Sun Microsystems and elsewhere, one may also hear references to `code slush' -- that is, an almost-but-not-quite frozen state.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
freeze To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be released with some hope of stability. Carries the strong implication that the item in question will "unfreeze" at some future date. There are more specific constructions on this term. A "feature freeze", for example, locks out modifications intended to introduce new features but still allows bugfixes and completion of existing features; a "code freeze" connotes no more changes at all. At {Sun Microsystems} and elsewhere, one may also hear references to "code slush" - that is, an almost-but-not-quite frozen state. [{Jargon File}]