Meaning of cold | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Acronym of computer output to laser disc.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
2. cold (having a low temperature)
3. A condition of low temperature.
   uncountable
4. Fry.
5. cool
6. A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
7. Lacking benefits given to others; neglected.
8. cold (unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling)
9. A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
   countable
10. coldness. — algid, adj.
    adj
11. cool (of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself)
12. Rheum; sleepy dust.
    slang, uncountable
13. an abnormal fear or dislike of cold.
14. cold, coldness (a condition of low temperature)
15. the branch of physics that studies the production and effects of very low temperatures. — cryogenic, adj.
    adj
16. a thermometer for measuring very low temperatures.
17. the measurement of extremely low temperatures, by means of a cryometer. — cryometric, adj.
    adj
18. Biology. a preference for low temperatures. — cryophile, n. — cryophilic, adj.
    Biology
19. an abnormal fear of ice or frost.
20. the study of the freezing points of fluids.
21. a surgical technique using freezing to destroy tissue.

Equivalents

Examples

“Come in, out of the cold.”

“The former politician was left out in the cold after his friends deserted him.”

“I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week”

“Dr. Jon S. Abramson, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Wake Forest Medical School, has found no medical evidence to support feeding a cold and starving a fever. He is particularly offended by the latter part of the phrase. […] “Always feed both colds and fevers,” Abramson said.”

“Who the fuck is this, pagin' me at 5:46 in the morning? / crack of dawn and now I'm yawnin' / wipe the cold out my eye, see who's this pagin' me and why”

“But I remember this, moms would lick her finger tips / to wipe the cold out my eye before school with her spit”

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