(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.
Shill
Definition:
(v. t.) To shell.
(v. t.) To put under cover; to sheal.
Example Sentences:
(1) The World Bank has revised down growth estimates, and the Kenyan shilling sank to a record low against the dollar in October, pushing food and fuel prices higher.
(2) A friend heard the butcher boast five shillings that he would be let off again by the tribunal, for the sixth time.
(3) A well-meaning litany of no-nos: don't be racist, don't be sexist, don't be homophobic, don't shill the World Cup to countries with human-rights issues .
(4) They charge fees of 3,000 Ugandan shillings – about US$2 – a term.
(5) A note on the text The first edition of Dracula appeared in bookshops on 26 May 1897, price six shillings, in a print run (from the publishers Archibald Constable and Co) of some 3,000 copies bound in plain yellow cloth with the one-word title in simple red lettering.
(6) One gloomy August afternoon Stevenson took Lloyd's shilling box of water-colours and made a map of an island.
(7) I'd go across the street with him and give him a 10-shilling note to get home because he never had any money, and that was it.'
(8) "Today I bought a goat, slaughtered, at 25,000 shillings (around £7)," she says, pausing in her shuttle between customers and pot.
(9) "The fossil fuel industry and its shills are willing to exploit any crisis and go to any lengths in their effort to extract more dirty fuels and dismantle critical climate policies.
(10) With significant donor support from Britain and others, the government has allocated more than 2tn shillings (£856,000) for education in 2010-11, about double its spending on health.
(11) They have only to make their papers good enough in order to win, as well as to merit, success, and the resources of a newspaper are not wholly measured in pounds, shillings, and pence.
(12) But the health centre hasn't the 200,000 shillings (£56) to pay for it.
(13) So why is my overriding desire for the next 12 months to see Morrissey and Marr (and the lawnmower parts ) to put creative differences and court cases behind them, take the shilling for a criminally vulgar reunion concert, and risk tainting my memories?
(14) "Some local staff working for NGOs and UN agencies ask for 3,000 shillings [around £20] to give you a food card.
(15) You then send between 100 shillings (74p) and 35,000 shillings (£259) via text message to the desired recipient - even someone on a different mobile network - who cashes it at an agent by entering a secret code and showing ID.
(16) Osteoarchaeologist Katie Tucker looked again at the bones in the museum when tests showed the team of local historians and residents, and experts from the university, that the bones from St Bartholomew, sold to a 19th-century vicar for 10 shillings as those of Alfred and his family, were centuries too late.
(17) The Uganda Red Cross will need to raise 2.5bn shillings (£640,000) for a three-month operation.
(18) And by doing so I've learned that Thiago Silva is not going to Barcelona because he has signed a new deal that will deliver a few extra PSG shillings into his pockets and keep him at the Parc des Princes until 2018.
(19) A young Treasury minister was once sent out to public meetings to explain currency metrication from the old 20 shillings and 12 pennies.
(20) In 1914 the Treasury printed and issued 10 shilling and £1 notes.