What's the difference between breeze and freeze?

Breeze


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Breeze fly
  • (n.) A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
  • (n.) An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
  • (n.) Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
  • (n.) Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
  • (v. i.) To blow gently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Old fishing nets and briny ropes enclose the gardens, and lines of washing flap in the Atlantic breeze.
  • (2) He "jumped without hesitation", said official sources quoted in the Daily Breeze.
  • (3) Wenger had complained of a sinister media plot to brainwash Arsenal's home fans, as though they were easily led and swing in the breeze, but it all was sweetness and light as Aaron Ramsey continued his early season swagger.
  • (4) The only sound was the breeze whispering to the grass: splendour in solitude.
  • (5) Invited by Marcus Rashford to make a dart into the area Martial breezed past a bewildered Besic to cut the ball back from the byline and present Marouane Fellaini with a goal against his former club.
  • (6) As the heat of a desert sunrise bears down on the breeze-block walls of the Visión En Acción asylum, casualties and refugees from the most dangerous city in the world begin another day.
  • (7) In Zanzibar she lived in a modest breeze-block house with some of her "grandchildren" and their pigeons.
  • (8) But here, in our PS4 demo, everything is rendered in exquisite detail with real-time sunlight pouring in over the undulating mountains, reflecting over grasslands that sway in the breeze.
  • (9) The notion drifted away on the Istanbul breeze in the second-half, particularly after he had been forced to substitute Ramsey and Mathieu Flamini at half-time.
  • (10) A stark figure strode across its windswept hilltop, his black frock coat flapping in the breeze as he descended a winding cliff-side staircase, incongruous against the bleak backdrop.
  • (11) The beach itself is a long and fine one, with South Atlantic breezes cooling the heels of groups of novice surfers in wetsuits and ladies being massaged in the thatched treatment hut close to the lighthouse.
  • (12) Crowley, adds Breeze, “was many things and excelled at most: a record-setting mountaineer, a competition-level chess player, the best metrical poet of his generation in the estimation of some, a literary critic of international reputation, an innovative editor and book designer, a pioneer in the use of entheogens, and a lion of sexual liberation – he was above all a lover, of men, women, gods, goddesses and himself”.
  • (13) "Banter", for me, is like a spitty wind, one that either breezes past gently, or batters me round the cheeks with its mindless force.
  • (14) One clip shows Yeates breezing into the shop, allowing the door to swing closed behind her.
  • (15) "I have felt like St Peter with the Apostles in the boat on the Sea of Galilee: the Lord has given us many days of sunshine and gentle breeze, days in which the catch has been abundant; [then] there have been times when the seas were rough and the wind against us … and the Lord seemed to be sleeping," he said.
  • (16) There is an abundance of wildlife here in summer, holly blue butterflies flutter on the breeze and buzzards circle high overhead.
  • (17) The occurrence of high concentrations of a PCB (Aroclor 1254) in the Pensacola estuary prompted field and laboratory studies by the Gulf Breeze Environmental Research Laboratory (EPA).
  • (18) The architecture of the city acts as a giant cooling system that funnels Atlantic breezes through shaded streets in a triumph of civil engineering.
  • (19) What, after all, do a majority of votes matter, when your opponent has described you to history as a "mangy maggot", " the old desiccated coconut ", "araldited to the seat" and a "dead carcass, swinging in the breeze"?
  • (20) This created a single new company with a different name, Solar Breeze (Consolidated) Limited.

Freeze


Definition:

  • (n.) A frieze.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. i.) 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.
  • (v. t.) To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
  • (v. t.) To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
  • (n.) The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
  • (2) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
  • (3) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
  • (4) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
  • (5) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
  • (6) The freeze-etch technique was used to study the morphology of Treponema refringens (Nichols).
  • (7) Reconstituted freeze dried allogeneic skin grafts contained virtually no blood, a phenomenon possibly analogous to the 'no reflow' phenomenon of microsurgery.
  • (8) The freezing procedure increased sperm motility in approximately 30% of samples from both animals.
  • (9) It is suggested that the intercalated disc functioned as a barrier to the freezing process.
  • (10) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
  • (11) Freeze-dried mannitol preparations were shown to be of a crystalline nature.
  • (12) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
  • (13) The sea ice usually then begins to freeze again over the winter.
  • (14) We conclude that differences in incorporation between syngeneic and allogeneic bone grafts are reduced by pretreatment with deep-freezing or demineralisation.
  • (15) Previous studies are reviewed in the light of new information on retrograde axonal transport, circumventricular organs, the proper use of horseradish peroxidase, freeze-fracturing, immunocytochemistry and plasma protein gene expression in the developing human brain.
  • (16) Freezing enrichment cultures prior to testing for toxicity eliminated many nonbotulinal toxic substances that killed mice.
  • (17) The process of interaction between macrophages and promastigote and amastigote forms of Leishmania mexicana amazonensis was analyzed using freeze fracture and cytochemistry.
  • (18) The results of the rapid-freeze and deep-etch procedure showed that the ridges observed by the surface replica method consisted of linear arrangements of elliptical particles on the ES face of the plasma membrane.
  • (19) Cryotherapy with high-flow nitrous oxide was applied to the lid margin for 45 seconds in a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle.
  • (20) Three freeze-thaw cycles released a large proportion (50% to 60%) of the TCA-precipitable radioactivity from the worms.