(n.) A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
(n.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.
(n.) A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
(n.) An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
(n.) The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
(a.) Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
(a.) Affected by cold.
(a.) Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
(a.) Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
(v. t.) To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.
(v. t.) To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.
(v. t.) To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.
(v. i.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
Example Sentences:
(1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
(2) Scanned rump fat measurements were consistently approximately 20% higher than on the chilled, hanging carcass 24 h after slaughter; after applying the standard correction factor of 1.17, LMA measurements were similar.
(3) Just last week he said: "Maybe I'll be a bit more chilled about it this year.
(4) Trump might say that is what he wants to happen but for us, that’s deeply upsetting,” says Moore, who sits on the board of the Center Against Sexual and Family Violence and expects the case to have a chilling effect on reports of abuse.
(5) The fact that we’re tracking towards the hottest year on record should send chills through anyone who says they care about climate change – especially negotiators at the UN climate talks here in Lima,” said Samantha Smith, who heads WWF’s climate and energy initiative.
(6) At Weledeh Catholic School in Yellowknife, for example, it’s used to determine when to hold playtime indoors (wind chill below -30C, since you asked).
(7) The prime minister has talked on a number of occasions of the chilling effect the situation in the eurozone is having on our economy and the global economy."
(8) If a sparse crowd, shivering in suddenly chill conditions out of step with the warmth Edmonton had enjoyed in previous days, did not exactly help the atmosphere, the action remained intense.
(9) "In recent years, though, the increased threat of costly libel actions has begun to have a chilling effect on scientific and academic debate and investigative journalism."
(10) Twenty minutes after rewarming at 37 degrees C, chilled cells began to return toward normal resistance to aspiration when only 6% had recovered discoid shape.
(11) The main symptoms are intense headache, chills and fever and an irritating non-productive cough.
(12) Just after Louise Mensch asked Rupert Murdoch if he'd considered resigning over phone hacking, she received the sort of email that would chill the blood of any wannabe government minister.
(13) The vapor was generated by passing air over arsenolite (As2O3, s) at various flow rates and temperatures, passed through a particulate filter and then was collected in a series of chilled Greenburg-Smith impingers.
(14) And they kept coming … the hilarious Octodad: Dadliest Catch , the chilling psychological horror game Daylight , which again, uses procedural generation to create new environments (procedural content is another next-gen theme); and Galak-Z from 17bit Studios, described as an AI and physics-driven open-world action game.
(15) The first patient had one day of fever and chills after intravenous heroin use.
(16) The authors present a case report of a 65-year-old male with a two-day history of a painful irreducible right inguinal mass; he denied abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, or chills.
(17) Smith, a climate change sceptic who has also subpoenaed government scientists’ communications, has accused the attorney generals of a political witch-hunt and for causing a “chilling impact on scientific research and development”.
(18) These had such a chilling effect on the provision of abortion that the number carried out by medical staff collapsed in the face of warnings about long terms of imprisonment for those deemed to have broken the law .
(19) The concept of wind chill applies only to unprotected objects.
(20) Deacetylated gellan gum (Gelrite) was used to produce a bead formulation containing sulphamethizole by a hot extrusion process into chilled ethylacetate.
Cill
Definition:
(n.) See Sill., n. a foundation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Alamy Distance 10 ¼ miles Start Ruined church of Cill Chriosd on Broadford to Elgol road, grid ref: NG616207 Further information and maps "A strange wailing sound reached my ears, I could see a long and motley procession winding along the road that led north from Suisnish.
(2) The journalist, Michel du Cille, who has shown no symptoms and even been to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for work since his return, said he is “completely weirded out that a journalism institution that should be seeking out facts and details is basically pandering to hysteria”.
(3) In this study, the potential problems and discrepancies in cill culture techniques were avoided by isolating leukocytes from the peripheral blood of patients with cystic fibrosis and healthy human volunteers and preparing homogenates to determine the specific activities of 5 lysosomal enzymes involved in the degradation of glycoproteins.
(4) Leukocyte filters with a special surface modification reduce the number of leukocytes in platelet concentrates underneath this CILL-value (critical immunogenic load of leukocytes), thus reducing the antigenic, immunogenic effects of leukocyte contamination considerably.
(5) A comparison has been made of the efficiency of human embryo kidney (HEK) cills, HeLa cells, and WI38 cells for the isolation of viruses from the eyes of patients suffering from acute conjunctivitis or keratoconjunctivitis.
(6) The Cleared Coast of Boreraig and Suisnish The ruined church of Cill Chriosd is the walk's starting point.
(7) The leukocyte depletion was even in case of filtering two RCC's through one filter (double filtration) efficient enough in order to keep leukocyte contamination below the 'critical immunogenic load for leukocytes (CILL)'.