(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.
Perishing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Perish
Example Sentences:
(1) Not one life was lost – though of course millions of votes might well have perished in this inhospitable terrain.
(2) The groups of survived and perished animals differed (the difference was statistically significant) by the extent of coordination of the enzymatic lymphocyte systems: the correlation of enzymatic indices in the survived animals was greater than in the perished ones.
(3) Yesterday, Harry Patch died peacefully in his bed at his residential home in Wells, Somerset, a man who spent his last years urging his friends and many admirers never to forget the 9.7 million young men who perished during the 1914-18 war.
(4) The six trained together, were dispatched to Afghanistan together and, in the end, perished together when their armoured vehicle was hit by a massive Taliban bomb.
(5) The authors report about 3 cases of the congenital adreno-genital syndrome in first-born children with a high weight at birth (3900, 3600, and 4200 g) who perished in early infancy.
(6) Wet corn gluten feed is also an adequate supplement for raising dairy replacements, allowing more rapid utilization of this perishable feed resource by the dairy herd.
(7) Niger to ban women and children travelling in Sahara after 92 perish Read more The sub-Saharan migrants are determined.
(8) Final internal processing temperatures within the range of 63 to 74 degrees C did not alter the degree of botulinal inhibition in inoculated perishable canned comminuted cured pork abused at 27 degrees C. Adding hemoglobin to the formulation reduced residual nitrite after processing and decreased botulinal inhibition.
(9) In 1945 I got word that my two sons had died in the Leningrad blockade and my husband had perished fighting in Smolensk.
(10) Non-perishables – spaghetti, rice, flour, condensed milk, tomato sauce – come from the food bank.
(11) More than 30 of the 189 Americans who perished on the flight were from the state of New Jersey.
(12) The heroine of Jane Eyre is hypnotised by this cold and saintly missionary, who proposes that they marry and go to India together to convert heathens (and perish doing God's holy work).
(13) There was not only an increase in average days of survival of those that perished, but also a marked increase in the number of greater than 60-day survivors.
(14) After a crisis meeting at the Elysée on Friday morning, Hollande confirmed that all 118 people on board – 112 passengers and six Spanish crew – had perished.
(15) Your little country will forever be honoured as the site that made the Princess Diana thing look like a restrained wake for a loathed spinster who perished alone on a desert island.
(16) It became clear that there was no chance of a successful rescue and the children perished.
(17) The control group was composed of 7 practically healthy persons who had perished suddenly as a result of craniocerebral trauma.
(18) It was found that in the gills of minnow, the other mass fish in the northern rivers of the USSR, larvae of M. margaritifera cannot develop and perish.
(19) We're here to celebrate not only comrade Madiba but all the men and women who perished in the liberation war."
(20) When using in the lymphocytotoxic reaction lymphocytes stored in frozen condition the proportion of perished cells after thawing should not exceed 10-20%.