freezing

4 definitions found

freezing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Freeze \Freeze\, v. i. [imp. Froze (fr[=o]z); p. p. Frozen
     (fr[=o]"z'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Freezing.] [OE. fresen,
     freosen, AS. fre['o]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[=a]
     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.
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     Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] above zero by Fahrenheit's
           thermometer; mercury freezes at 40[deg] below zero.
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     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.
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     To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor.
        [Colloq.]
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  Freezing \Freez"ing\, a.
     Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in
     manner. -- Frrez"ing*ly, adv.
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     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.
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freezing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  freezing
      n 1: the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to
           a solid [syn: freeze, freezing]

freezing - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  124 Moby Thesaurus words for "freezing":
     Siberian, adiabatic absorption, adiabatic demagnetization,
     adiabatic expansion, air conditioning, air cooling, algid, algific,
     anhydration, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold,
     blast freezing, blast-freezing, bleak, boreal, bottling, brining,
     brisk, brumal, canning, chill, chilling, chilly, cold,
     cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble,
     congealing, congealment, congelation, cooling, corning, crisp,
     cryogenics, curing, cutting, deep freezing, dehydration,
     dehydrofreezing, desiccation, dry-curing, drying,
     electric refrigeration, embalming, evaporation, food freezing,
     freezable, freeze-drying, freezing cold, frigid, frigorific,
     frosty, frozen, fuming, gas refrigeration, gelid, glaciable,
     glacial, glaciation, glacification, hibernal, hiemal, hyperboreal,
     hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement,
     infrigidation, irradiation, jerking, keen, marination,
     mechanical refrigeration, mummification, nipping, nippy, numbing,
     penetrating, perishing, pickling, piercing, pinching, polar,
     potting, quick freezing, quick-freezing, raw,
     reduction of temperature, refreezing, refrigerant, refrigeration,
     refrigerative, refrigeratory, regelation, rigorous, salting,
     seasoning, severe, sharp, sharp freezing, sharp-freezing,
     shivering, shivery, sleety, slushy, smoking, snappy, stone-cold,
     stuffing, subzero, super-cooling, supercooled, taxidermy, tinning,
     winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry