(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.
Cooler
Definition:
(n.) That which cools, or abates heat or excitement.
(n.) Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood samples taken from children at certain ages and during the warmer months contained more lead than samples obtained during the cooler months.
(2) A cooler full of beer is usually at hand, though swimming attire typically isn't.
(3) The warmer half-spindle was longer than the cooler.
(4) TB said "Wouldn't it just be easier if you admitted, in the privacy of these four walls, that you have gone a bit cooler?"
(5) The background was hotter on one side of the sky and cooler on the other: a "dipole" that meant our galaxy was moving at a phenomenal relative speed, which could only be explained if there was a huge undiscovered distant structure somewhere in space, such as a supercluster of galaxies, pulling it (this was found later and is called the "great attractor").
(6) Prices for traded electricity fell today trading after hitting record highs at one stage yesterday, reflecting the belief that the steps taken in France and in Germany, plus a promise of cooler days, would ease demand.
(7) For that matter, mulching with bark, grit or slate will help keep the surface roots cooler and retain moisture in hot weather.
(8) Intraoperative muscle temperature recordings indicated that the iced limbs were an average of 12.9 degrees cooler than noniced limbs before tourniquet inflation.
(9) In the long term, physical conditioning and heat acclimation lead to increases in sweat output during thermal stress, leading to cooler skin and core temperature during exercise, and decreasing the level of skin blood flow needed for regulation of body temperature.
(10) Because the concentration of the ethanol injections was considerably lower than reported ethanol concentrations in the tissues of anoxic goldfish, endogenously produced ethanol may have induced the selection of cooler water by the anoxic goldfish.
(11) In groups I and II, the lateral band was significantly cooler (P less than .01) than the medial arch.
(12) Wine cooler use is viewed inconsistently, perhaps with a tendency toward being seen as appropriate for consumption during integrative social occasions that involve having a good time.
(13) A greater number of viruses were identified in the cooler, drier months of the year.
(14) I’m still going to make records, but not at the intensity at which I was doing it … I fed my ego enough with my solo career that now it’s cooler to be more behind the scenes and helping other bands.
(15) Blind duplicate samples of starch, diluted lemon juice, wine cooler, dehydrated seafood, and instant mashed potatoes were analyzed without spiking and with added sulfite at 2 levels.
(16) "The disabled kids were just cooler, wilder, got up to crazy things.
(17) Porto Alegre, meanwhile, is located in the southern region of the country, where temperatures are much cooler.
(18) Because of the newness of wine coolers and their youthful appeal, questions have arisen of whether consumers have a realistic understanding of coolers' intoxication power.
(19) The capability of birds to keep the brain cooler than the body over a wide range of ambient temperatures is a major thermoregulatory characteristic enabling the defense of the central nervous tissue from overheating, heat storage and saving of water.
(20) humid warm coastal climate compared with dry cooler inland-mountain climate) is not an important factor in the etiology of tinea.