Cool as Ice

cool Adjective

— If something is cool, its temperature is between warm and cold. It's hard to keep the house nice and cool on a hot summer's day. The air was cool, so he put on his jacket. — If you say something is cool you mean it is good and you like it. That's a really cool cell phone! Where did you get it? Wow, your computer looks cool!

cool Verb

— If you cool something, you decrease the temperature. Blow on the coffee to cool it off. — If something cools, its temperature decreases. The soup was too hot, so he waited for it to cool a little.

as Preposition

— A word that is used to compare two things that are equal. As you know, we need more workers. I baked the cake as my mother used to. The room looks just as it did when I was a child. The speech, as he remembered it, was very powerful. Interesting as it seems, I don't think I'll get it. He was as big as a mountain. — A word that is used to show that two things happened at the same time. Just as I went out, it started to rain. We sleep as the world turns in darkness. — A word that is used to show why something happens. As I couldn't understand French, I didn't watch the film.

as Adverb

— A word that is used to compare two things that are equal. (Used before adjectives) You are younger than I am, but nearly as tall. This is not as good as it was last time.

ice Noun

— A gas or liquid, normally water, which has been frozen (made solid) When water is cooled below 0&;deg;C, it freezes into ice. Ice is the solid state of water.

ice Verb

— If you ice something, you cool it by putting ice or something else very cold on it. I iced my knee after I hurt it in soccer. — If you ice a cake, you cover with icing. I iced this cake.