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| 3 results for freezing | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Freezing \Freez"ing\, a. 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 32[deg] Fahr., and at 0[deg] Centigrade. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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.] | |
