(n.) Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
(n.) Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
(n.) Not pungent or acrid.
(n.) Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
(n.) Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
(n.) Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
(n.) Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
(n.) Not sensitive; not acute.
(n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
(n.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
(n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth.
(n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
(n.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
(v. i.) To become cold.
Example Sentences:
(1) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
(2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
(3) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(4) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
(5) These data suggest that submaximal exercise and cold air exposure enhance nonspecific bronchial reactivity in asthmatic but not in normal subjects.
(6) The relationship between cold-insoluble complexes, or cryoglobulins, and renal disease was studied in rabbits with acute serum sickness produced with BSA.
(7) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1983, pp.
(8) Changes in pain tolerance after administration of differently labelled placebos were studied by measuring the reaction time after a cold stimulus.
(9) The quality of liver grafts was evaluated using an original, blood-free isolated perfusion model, after 8 h cold storage, or after 15 min warm ischemia performed prior to harvesting.
(10) Lymphocytes of inbred mice immunized with allogenic tumour cells were labelled in vitro or in vivo by 3H-thymidine, washed out and incubated with target cells in the presence of "cold" thymidine.
(11) The binding of 125I-labeled core protein to immobilized fibronectin was inhibited by soluble fibronectin and by soluble cold core protein but not by albumin or gelatin.
(12) "The government should be doing all it can to put the UK at the forefront of this energy revolution not blowing hot and cold on the issue.
(13) 1, diarrhea lowered the piglet's ability to maintain body temperature during the cold test.
(14) 3H-uridine or 3H-uracil with cold uridine and uracil, respectively, in amounts corresponding to therapeutic doses of these two pyrimidines as fluoro compounds, were administered with or without microspheres.
(15) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(16) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
(17) A comparison is made between these results and those of other authors who observed microtubule disaggregation by cold with the electron microscope.
(18) Raised cold agglutinin titres were observed in 16 patients with atypical pneumonia.
(19) This initial observation of release of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis in vivo along with histamine assigns the mast cell a central role in cold urticaria.
(20) Detection limits were then calculated for the different sizes of cold spots.
Glacial
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.
(a.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids.
Example Sentences:
(1) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
(2) The fundamental behavioural adaptations implicit in the 'Upper Palaeolithic Revolution' (possibly including language) are thought to have been responsible for this rapid dispersal of human populations over the ecologically demanding environments of last-glacial Europe.
(3) IXb, diacetate of IX, unpurified, was converted to IXf with chromium trioxide in glacial acetic acid.
(4) The same analogue also manifested a marked analgesic effect with the two tests used: hot plate test and the peritoneal test with glacial acetic acid.
(5) Fix for 4 days in 18 parts 80% ethanol, 1 part 10% formalin, and 1 part glacial acetic acid.
(6) Larvae for morphological study were collected by pepsin digestion, fixed in glacial acetic acid, and cleared in glycerin.
(7) We used a polyclonal antibody (West antibody) to measure ACTH-like immunoactivity in glacial acetic acid extracts of five tissues in adult male rats at increasing times (1, 7, 14, and 28 days) after hypophysectomy or adrenalectomy, and in normal control rats.
(8) This report presents a case of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy developing within 2 h after ingestion of 96% (glacial) acetic acid in an attempted suicide.
(9) It’s because we are right, and however glacially society evolves, it is evolving in the right direction.
(10) Thirty-nine patients with benign prostatic enlargement were treated by transperineal intrasprostatic injections composed of phenol 2%, glacial acetic acid 2%, and glycerine 4%, in distilled water.
(11) Guinness also wielded glacial fierceness and terror with unchallengeable authority.
(12) A variant Golgi technique was developed that consisted of substituting osmium tetroxide with formaldehyde as the initial fixative in intracardiac perfusion, along with the addition of glacial acetic acid to the chromating fluid.
(13) The series of pictures tell a story not only about the dramatic reductions in glacial ice in the Himalayas, but also the effects of climate change on the people who live there .
(14) The mobile phase was used in the form of a solvent system: n-heptan-glacial acetic acid (95:5).
(15) And yet despite the iconography of her glacial portraits and the tales of wicked Sir Oswald, Britain's only significant fascist (and, in case it should be forgotten, previously a leading light in the MacDonald-era Labour party), Lady Mosley's real significance rests on her supporting role in a much grander tableau: the story of the Mitford girls and the 80-year sway that they have exerted over upper-level English society.
(16) The level of all three microbial parameters studied slowly increased as the river flowed from its glacial source out into the prairies.
(17) And there are signs from Europe, too, that attitudes are – albeit glacially – starting to shift: on Monday, Europe's food safety agency ruled against a temporary French ban on a strain of GM maize made by the US company Monsanto , saying there was "no specific scientific evidence, in terms of risk to human and animal health or the environment" to justify it.
(18) But Big Content and Big Telecom, as we know, move glacially.
(19) The main product of the oxidation of catechol in glacial acid is N-(2-carbomethoxyethyl)-phenoxaz-2,3-dione.
(20) When Fritz Müller and Erwin Schneider battled ice storms, altitude sickness and snow blindness in the 1950s to map, measure and photograph the Imja glacier in the Himalayas, they could never have foreseen that the gigantic tongue of millennia-old glacial ice would be reduced to a lake within 50 years.