Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word COLD

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Definitions of COLD

1. Completely unprepared; without introduction.
2. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
3. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
4. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
5. Without preparation.
6. Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
7. Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
8. Without electrical power being supplied.
9. At a low temperature.
10. (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
11. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
12. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
13. (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
14. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
15. (obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
16. (obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
17. (obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
18. (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
19. (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
20. (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
21. (informal) Not radioactive. [from the 20^thc.]
22. (firearm) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
23. (with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
24. (slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
25. (slang) Cool, impressive.
26. (computing) Acronym of computer output to laser disc.
27. Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
28. (uncountable) A condition of low temperature.
29. (countable, pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
30. (uncountable, slang) Rheum; sleepy dust.

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Examples of Using COLD in a Sentence

• Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, his sculpture was inspired by the Baroque and the classical revival, and has been characterised as having avoided the melodramatics of the former, and the cold artificiality of the latter.
• It is well adapted to living in cold environments, and is best known for its thick, warm fur that is also used as camouflage.
• It is a country with the largest geographic extension of Amazonian plains and lowlands, mountains and Chaco with a tropical climate, valleys with a warm climate, as well as being part of the Andes of South America and its high plateau areas with cold climates, hills and snow-capped mountains, with a wide biome in each city and region.
• The order Carnivora is the sixth largest order of mammals, comprising at least 279 species on every major landmass and in a variety of habitats, ranging from the cold polar regions of Earth to the hyper-arid region of the Sahara Desert and the open seas.
• The efficiency depends only upon the absolute temperatures of the hot and cold heat reservoirs between which it operates.
• The Chalcolithic covers both the early cold working (hammering) of near pure copper ores, as exhibited by the likes of North American Great Lakes Old Copper complex, from around 6,500 BC, through the later copper smelting cultures.
• Dextromethorphan, or DXM, a common active ingredient found in many over-the-counter cough suppressant cold medicines, is used as a recreational drug and entheogen for its dissociative effects.
• The elements, a term used to refer to natural perils such as erosion, rough terrain, rust, cold, heat, and disastrous weather.
• The Faroe Islands generally have cool summers and cool to cold winters, with a usually overcast sky and frequent fog and strong winds.
• Factors affecting traffic include the sparse population and long distance between towns and cities, and the cold climate with waterways freezing and land covered in snow for winter.
• In models for the gravitational formation of structure with cold dark matter, the smallest structures collapse first and eventually build the largest structures, clusters of galaxies.

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