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ADJECTIVE cold COMPARATIVE colder SUPERLATIVE coldest

cold English

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Definitions in simple English

cold Adjective

— If something is cold, it is low in temperature. The wind made her hands cold. It's going to be very cold today so wear a jacket. — If someone is cold, they are not kind. She's always so friendly to everyone, but she's really cold to him. — If you have cold feet, you are nervous about something you planned to and you feel like not doing it. I almost took the new job, but in the end I got cold feet. — If you give someone the cold shoulder, you ignore them or you are unfriendly towards them. — If you stop cold, you stop very suddenly. — If you are out cold, you are unconscious. — A cold light or colour is a one, often with some blue, that makes you feel cold or empty. — If you do something cold, you do it without any preparation. — Cold cash is coins and bills, not promises to pay. — If something leaves you cold, it doesn't interest you at all. — If someone's or something's trail is cold, you can't find them because they have been missing for too long.

cold Noun

— A mild sickness. It gives your trouble with your nose and throat. He has a cold, so he stayed in bed, kept warm, and took some medicine.

cold

— adjective 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 — adjective 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 — noun (= common cold) a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs) will they never find a cure for the common cold? — noun (= coldness) the absence of heat the coldness made our breath visible come in out of the cold cold is a vasoconstrictor — adjective having lost freshness through passage of time a cold trail dogs attempting to catch a cold scent — adjective (color) giving no sensation of warmth a cold bluish grey — adjective (= cold-blooded, insensate) without compunction or human feeling in cold blood cold-blooded killing insensate destruction — adjective feeling or showing no enthusiasm a cold audience a cold response to the new play — adjective (= frigid) sexually unresponsive was cold to his advances a frigid woman — adjective so intense as to be almost uncontrollable cold fury gripped him — adjective marked by errorless familiarity had her lines cold before rehearsals started — adjective (= stale, moth-eaten) lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new moth-eaten theories about race stale news — adjective unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication the boxer was out cold pass out cold — adjective of a seeker; far from the object sought — adjective lacking the warmth of life cold in his grave — noun the sensation produced by low temperatures he shivered from the cold the cold helped clear his head

Synonyms cold synonyms

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cool chilly chill frigid coldness common cold frigidity catarrh flu icy freezing coolness freeze bleak indifferent frosty cold weather chilliness influenza frozen frost chilled stale low temperature cough cold-blooded wintry wet unfriendly very cold short ice fever distant curt blunt unsympathetic unkind malaria heartless head cold gelid frigidness fresh congeal cold air callous be cold aloof winter

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Topics cold topics

What do people use cold to talk about?

States Quality Hot

Disease

What words refer to a disease of the nose and throat?

cough whooping cough cold sore throat influenza flu chill

Universe, creation Animal

Types of animals

Person Healthy Disease

Skin disease

What words refer to a sore in the skin?

boil infection sore open sore scab rash ulcer abscess bunion growth tumor bruise gangrene inflammation pox lesion canker corn eruption blister bedsore cold sore

Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Uninterested, bored

What words refer to feeling uninterested in something?

not be interested lack interest be bored (with) be fed up with be tired of don't care (about) can't be bothered your heart's not in it be cool towards show no interest express no interest leave someone cold

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Afraid

What words refer to causing someone to feel afraid?

frighten give someone a fright frighten the life out of someone alarm (v) cow (v) give someone the creeps daunt intimidate petrify rattle (v) scare spook startle terrify terrorize unnerve make your hair stand on end make your blood run cold

Social behavior Behavior Do good to Meddle

Spoil

What words refer to spoiling someone's work?

spoil mess up undermine sabotage throw a wrench in the works pour cold water on

Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to trouble

Cowardice

What words refer to becoming cowardly?

lose your nerve get cold feet not dare chicken out not have the guts not have the nerve

Social behavior Conflict

Hostility

What words refer to hostility between people?

conflict antagonism discord disharmony friction hostility ill feeling rivalry strife tension sit on a powder key cold war phony war

States Time Period of time

Season

What words refer to a season related to the weather?

season rainy season long rains short rains dry season cold season hot season

Examples cold examples

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Simple sentences

It's cold.

Since you have a cold, you must not go out.

How long will this cold weather go on?

I am thirsty. Please give me something cold to drink.

I was very thirsty and I wanted to drink something cold.

I dislike cold weather.

My feet get cold.

He was blue from the cold.

It's just a cold.

Do you have anything for a cold?

My voice is hoarse from a cold.

I have a cold.

It's cold today!

Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much rancor between the Russians and the Germans, especially in areas once occupied by the Soviet Union.

Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much bitterness between Germans and Russians, especially in areas which were occupied by the Soviet Union.

You've given me your cold.

You'll soon get accustomed to this cold weather.

You will catch cold.

It's awfully cold today.

It's awfully cold this evening.

Fish are cold-blooded animals.

My joints ache when it gets cold.

I was very careful, but I caught a cold.

Movie subtitles

You'll catch cold like that.

You seem sort of cold towards her lately.

It doesn't have enough greenhouse gases to trap in heat and it's become a cold, barren, desert world.

And it's cold enough that the methane precipitates and drops, like raindrops, and falls out onto the surface of Titan.

On Earth, methane is a flammable gas, but the temperatures on Titan are so cold, minus 1 80 degrees Celsius, that the methane can form liquid.

This damn town, I found out they are so cold-hearted at that time.

We're going to need cold swabs.

Yep. You're looking at 28 cubic feet of self-regulated, vacuum-sealed cold.

But I just plugged it in, and it's already ice-cold.

Ah, the very cold case, yes.

I told you, I've gone cold turkey on the Chan.

I wonder if Phillip got cold feet.

I had this friend, Lefty, and he was always inviting me out for a cold one, but I was too busy raising a family and defending our great country.

You know, by the way, I reread the fantasy novel we outlined last night. - Let me tell you, even in the cold, hard light of day, this thing is fantastic.

Isn't this a bit cold? - No.

It's rather cold in here, wouldn't you agree?

After a while, the cold gets to you.

The food's getting cold.

With the end of the Cold War, the Zero-Zero cyborgs went completely off the grid and were eventually forgotten by the public.

During the reign of king Johan III a bitterly cold winter swept over Sweden, the likes of which had never been seen in living memory.

In the enemy's country hopelessly lost, helplessly cold and horribly hungry.

Cold and hungry, she is stymied by hallucinations.

The men must all be very old, the women warm, the champagne cold.

This one was anemic and couldn't stand the cold.

Men, we can't have cold-blooded murderers among us.

It's so cold, it'll freeze your hooves off.

But those two men killed a man in cold blood, and they've got to pay.

Darling, the coffee's getting cold.

That's cold, man.

I'm wet, I'm cold and I'm hungry.

Just cold and wet and hungry.

He's out cold.

Her dinner's going cold, Mum.

Why, you keep your kitchen so far back of the lines. we never get anything to eat until it's cold and we're asleep!

Mother, you'll catch cold here.

You're cold, aren't you?

Cold?

Are you cold?

You come here, sit in cold, you sit in without any dough.

News and current affairs

This dream quickly faded when the Cold War divided the world into two hostile blocs.

But in some ways the 1945 consensus, in the West, was strengthened by Cold War politics.

During the Cold War, most Europeans tolerated America's tendency to lead unilaterally, because of the Soviet threat and the preponderance of US power.

But America is having a hard time understanding the new circumstances of the post-Cold war era.

But, when the Cold War ended, so, too, did his dogmatism.

This would not be achieved, however, through an inevitably imperfect sanctions regime, or by America's resort to Cold War logic aimed at breaking Iran's backbone by drawing it into a ruinous arms race.

Twenty years after the Cold War's end, Japan will at last have a post-Cold War system of government.

The most damning criticism of McCain's plan is that it would launch a new Cold War between states labeled democracies and autocracies.

We've continued as if the Cold War never came to an end, spending as much on defense as the rest of the world combined.

WASHINGTON, DC - I grew up in the shadow of World War II, and at the dawn of the Cold War.

A decade later, with the Cold War's end, the new conventional wisdom was that the world was a unipolar American hegemony.

With Russia's invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea, the disintegration of Iraq's and Syria's borders, and increasing Chinese assertiveness in the South and East China Seas, the post-Cold War era appears to have ended in 2014.

The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.

This dream quickly faded when the Cold War divided the world into two hostile blocs. But in some ways the 1945 consensus, in the West, was strengthened by Cold War politics.

The old Cold War world order was based on the nuclear arms race between the two superpowers, the United States and Soviet Union.

If Suu Kyi is permitted to campaign free of restraint, for both her own seat and to boost the electoral chances of her NLD colleagues, it will be clear that Thein Sein and his government are truly determined to bring their country in from the cold.

The Cold War ended when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, and is now remembered only as history to most people around the world.

The Korean Peninsula, however, remains divided along ideological lines, and the two Koreas co-exist as living remnants of the Cold War.

The post-Cold War era of US unipolarity has ended, owing to America's economic mismanagement, the war in Iraq, the continuing rise of other countries, and globalization.

But this amalgam of competing strategic visions probably marks the end of America's post-Cold War power.

As a result, America's cold war with Iran is likely to persist.

Only if the trans-Atlantic partnership proves effective, as it did to meet the demands of the Cold War and the end of Europe's division, can the West contribute to realizing the hopes engendered by the Arab uprisings.

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