freeze
see also: Freeze
Pronunciation
Freeze
Proper noun
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see also: Freeze
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfɹiːz/
freeze (freezes, present participle freezing; past froze, past participle frozen)
- (intransitive) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
- 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, Book XX: The Famine,
- Ever thicker, thicker, thicker / Froze the ice on lake and river,
- 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!, Winter Memories, I,
- He got to Dawson before the river froze, and now I suppose I won't hear any more until spring.
- 1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, The How and Why Library: Wonders, Section II: Water,
- Running water does not freeze as easily as still water.
- 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, Book XX: The Famine,
- (transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
- Don't freeze meat twice.
- 1888, Elias Lönnrot, John Martin Crawford (translator, from German), The Kalevala, Rune XXX: The Frost-fiend,
- Freeze the wizard in his vessel, / Freeze to ice the wicked Ahti, ...
- (intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
- It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh.
- (intransitive, informal) To be affected by extreme cold.
- It's freezing in here!
- Don't go outside wearing just a t-shirt; you'll freeze!
- (intransitive) (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
- Since the last update, the program freezes / freezes up after a few minutes of use.
- (intransitive) (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
- Despite all of the rehearsals, I froze up as soon as I got on stage.
- (transitive) To cause someone to become motionless.
- (figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
- Over time, he froze towards her, and ceased to react to her friendly advances.
- 1898, Robert Burns, John George Dow (editor), Selections from the poems of Robert Burns, page lviii,
- The other side to this sunny gladness of natural love is his pity for their sufferings when their own mother's heart seems to freeze towards them.
- 1988, Edward Holland Spicer, Kathleen M. Sands, Rosamond B. Spicer, People of Pascua, page 37,
- If you cheat them, they don't say anything but after that they freeze towards you.
- To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, / That almost freezes up the heat of life.
- (transitive) To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
- The court froze the criminal's bank account.
- Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.
- (become solid) solidify
- (stop functioning) freeze up, grind to a halt, hang, lock up, seize, seize up
- (cause someone to become motionless) halt, immobilize; See also Thesaurus:immobilize
- French: geler, glacer
- German: gefrieren
- Italian: gelare, ghiacciare
- Portuguese: gelar, congelar
- Russian: замерза́ть
- Spanish: helar
- French: congeler
- German: einfrieren
- Italian: congelare
- Portuguese: congelar
- Russian: замора́живать
- Spanish: helar, congelar
- French: figer
- Russian: ви́снуть
- French: figer
- French: se refroidir
- French: refroidir
freeze (plural freezes)
- A period of intensely cold weather.
- 2009, Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy, 2nd Edition, page 38,
- In order to work properly, the cotton stripper required that the plant be brown and brittle, as happened after a freeze, so that the cotton bolls could snap off easily.
- 2009, Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy, 2nd Edition, page 38,
- A halt of a regular operation.
- 1982 October, William Epstein, The freeze: a hot issue at the United Nations, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
- Without a freeze it might be possible to proceed with the production and deployment of such destabilizing systems as the MX, Trident II, cruise missiles and SS-18s, -19s and -20s.
- 1983 October 3, Ted Kennedy, speech, Truth and Tolerance in America,
- Critics may oppose the nuclear freeze for what they regard as moral reasons.
- 1985 April 27, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address,
- Many of our opponents in Congress are advocating a freeze in Federal spending and an increase in taxes.
- 1982 October, William Epstein, The freeze: a hot issue at the United Nations, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
- (computer) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
- (curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
- (business, finance) A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.
- a hiring freeze; a pay freeze
- (computer) hang
- French: gel
- French: gel, plantage
- German: Einfrieren
- Portuguese: bloquear
- Russian: зависа́ние
- Spanish: colgarse
- French: gel
freeze (plural freezes)
- Obsolete form of frieze#English|frieze.
Freeze
Proper noun
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