Cold \Cold\ (k[=o]ld), a. [Compar. Colder (-[~e]r); superl.
Coldest.] [OE. cold, cald, AS. cald, ceald; akin to OS.
kald, D. koud, G. kalt, Icel. kaldr, Dan. kold, Sw. kall,
Goth. kalds, L. gelu frost, gelare to freeze. Orig. p. p. of
AS. calan to be cold, Icel. kala to freeze. Cf. Cool, a.,
Chill, n.]
1. Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or
hot; gelid; frigid. "The snowy top of cold Olympis."
--Milton.
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2. Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the
absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
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3. Not pungent or acrid. "Cold plants." --Bacon
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4. Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion;
spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
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A cold and unconcerned spectator. --T. Burnet.
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No cold relation is a zealous citizen. --Burke.
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5. Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory. "Cold news for
me." "Cold comfort." --Shak.
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6. Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
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What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the
better part of life in! --B. Jonson.
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The jest grows cold . . . when in comes on in a
second scene. --Addison.
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7. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but
feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
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8. Not sensitive; not acute.
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Smell this business with a sense as cold
As is a dead man's nose. --Shak.
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9. Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object,
of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
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10. (Paint.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
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Cold abscess. See under Abscess.
Cold blast See under Blast, n., 2.
Cold blood. See under Blood, n., 8.
Cold chill, an ague fit. --Wright.
Cold chisel, a chisel of peculiar strength and hardness,
for cutting cold metal. --Weale.
Cold cream. See under Cream.
Cold slaw. See Cole slaw.
In cold blood, without excitement or passion; deliberately.
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He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over.
--Sir W.
Scott.
To give one the cold shoulder, to treat one with neglect.
Syn: Gelid; bleak; frigid; chill; indifferent; unconcerned;
passionless; reserved; unfeeling; stoical.
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Cold \Cold\, n.
1. The relative absence of heat or warmth.
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2. The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness
or chillness.
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When she saw her lord prepared to part,
A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart. --Dryden.
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3. (Med.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by
exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
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Cold sore (Med.), a vesicular eruption appearing about the
mouth as the result of a cold, or in the course of any
disease attended with fever.
To leave one out in the cold, to overlook or neglect him.
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Cold \Cold\, v. i.
To become cold. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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cold
adj 1: used of physical coldness; having a low or inadequate
temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or
having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration; "a
cold climate"; "a cold room"; "dinner has gotten
cold"; "cold fingers"; "if you are cold, turn up the
heat"; "a cold beer" [ant: hot]
2: extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness;
without human warmth or emotion; "a cold unfriendly nod";
"a cold and unaffectionate person"; "a cold impersonal
manner"; "cold logic"; "the concert left me cold" [ant: hot]
3: having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold
trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"
4: (color) giving no sensation of warmth; "a cold bluish gray"
5: marked by errorless familiarity; "had her lines cold before
rehearsals started"
6: no longer new; uninteresting; "cold (or stale) news" [syn: stale]
7: so intense as to be almost uncontrollable; "cold fury
gripped him"
8: sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid
woman" [syn: frigid]
9: without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood";
"cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: cold-blooded,
inhuman, insensate]
10: feeling or showing no enthusiasm; "a cold audience"; "a cold
response to the new play"
11: unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication; "the boxer
was out cold"; "pass out cold"
12: of a seeker; far from the object sought
13: lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave"
n 1: a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory
passages (but not the lungs); "will they never find a
cure for the common cold?" [syn: common cold]
2: the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible";
"come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor"
[syn: coldness, low temperature] [ant: hotness]
3: the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered
from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head" [syn: coldness]
WordNet (r) 2.0
421 Moby Thesaurus words for "cold":
Asiatic flu, Hong Kong flu, Laodicean, Olympian, Siberian,
abruptly, absolutely, acute bronchitis, adenoiditis, affectless,
ague, aguey, aguish, algid, aloof, aluminosis, amygdalitis,
anesthetized, anthracosilicosis, anthracosis, apathetic, arctic,
arid, arrogant, asbestosis, asexual, asleep, asthma,
atypical pneumonia, audacious, autistic, backward, barren, bashful,
below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bituminosis, black,
black lung, blah, blank, bleak, bloodless, blue with cold, blunt,
boreal, bracing, brisk, bronchial pneumonia, bronchiectasis,
bronchiolitis, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia, brumal, bug,
bumptious, callous, calloused, castrated, cataleptic, catarrh,
catatonic, chalicosis, characterless, chattering, cheerless, chill,
chilled, chilling, chilly, chromatic, chronic bronchitis,
cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble,
cold of heart, cold-blooded, coldblooded, coldhearted, coldness,
collapsed lung, colorific, coloring, colorless, comatose,
common cold, completely, coniosis, constrained, contumelious, cool,
coryza, crisp, croup, croupous pneumonia, cutting, dead,
dead as mutton, deadening, deceased, defunct, departed, depressing,
detached, dichromatic, disaccordant, discouraging, discreet,
disdainful, disheartening, dismal, dispassionate, dispiriting,
distant, dithery, doped, double pneumonia, draggy, drear,
drearisome, dreary, drugged, dry, dry pleurisy, dryasdust, dull,
effete, elephantine, emasculated, emotionally dead, emotionless,
emphysema, empty, empyema, entirely, epidemic pleurodynia,
etiolated, eunuchized, exanimate, exclusive, expressionless,
extinct, fade, faint, familiar, far, fervorless,
fibrinous pneumonia, flat, flinthearted, flu, forbidding, forward,
freezing, freezing cold, frigid, frigidity, frosted, frosty,
frozen, frozen to death, frustrated, gelid, glacial, gloomy,
glowing, grippe, guarded, half-conscious, half-frozen, halfhearted,
hard, hard of heart, hardened, hardhearted, harmonious, hay fever,
heartless, heavy, hibernal, hiemal, ho-hum, hollow, hubristic,
hyperboreal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, iced, icelike,
iciness, icy, immediately, immovable, impassible, impassive,
impersonal, impotent, inaccessible, inane, inanimate, inclement,
incompatible, indifferent, inexcitable, influenza, inhibited,
inhospitable, inimical, insensitive, insipid, insolent, insulting,
insusceptible, introverted, jejune, joyless, keen, la grippe,
laryngitis, late, leaden, lifeless, lipoid pneumonia,
lobar pneumonia, low-spirited, lukewarm, lung cancer, lung fever,
many-colored, matching, matter-of-fact, medley, modest,
monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, narcotized, neuter,
neutral, nipping, nippy, nirvanic, nonemotional, numbing, obdurate,
objective, oblivious, obtrusive, obtuse, off the track, offish,
old, oppressive, out, out cold, out of it, out of touch,
overpresumptuous, overweening, pale, pallid, parti-colored,
passionless, pedestrian, penetrating, perfunctory, pharyngitis,
piercing, pigmentary, pinching, pleurisy, pleuritis, plodding,
pneumococcal pneumonia, pneumoconiosis, pneumonia, pneumonic fever,
pneumothorax, pointless, poky, polar, polychromatic, ponderous,
presuming, presumptuous, prismatic, procacious, promptly, pushy,
quinsy, rainbow, raw, remote, removed, repressed, reserved,
restrained, reticent, retiring, rheum, rigorous, seclusive,
self-absorbed, semiconscious, senseless, severe, sexless, shaky,
sharp, shivering, shivery, shrinking, siderosis, silicosis, sleety,
slow, slushy, snappy, sniffles, solemn, somber, sore throat,
soulless, spaced out, spectral, spiritless, stale, standoff,
standoffish, stereotyped, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stone-cold,
stone-dead, stoned, stonyhearted, strained, strung out, stuffy,
subdued, subzero, supercooled, superficial, suppressed, swine flu,
tasteless, tedious, tense, tepid, the sniffles, the snuffles,
thoroughly, tinctorial, tingent, toning, tonsilitis, trite,
unaffable, unaffectionate, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachable,
uncaring, uncongenial, unconscious, uncordial, undemonstrative,
undersexed, unemotional, unenthusiastic, unexpansive, unfeeling,
unfriendly, ungenial, unharmonious, unheated, unimpassioned,
unimpressionable, unlively, unloving, unmerciful, unmoved,
unmoving, unnatural, unpassionate, unprepared, unready,
unreservedly, unresponding, unresponsive, unsexed, unsexual,
unsociable, unsusceptible, unsympathetic, untouchable, uppish,
uppity, vapid, variegated, virus pneumonia, warm, weak,
wet pleurisy, whooping cough, winterbound, winterlike, wintery,
wintry, with chattering teeth, withdrawn, wooden, zealless, zonked,
zonked out
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
COLD
Computer Output on LaserDisk
Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
COLD
1. A sugared version of COLD-K.
2. Computer Output to Laser Disc.
(1995-01-04)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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