(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.
Sniffle
Definition:
(v. i.) To snuffle, as one does with a catarrh.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few sniffles and damp cheeks are endearing by comparison.
(2) In this study, we are interested in the character of the mucosa and their changes as affected by long-term injury from the trauma of the inspiratory and expiratory air currents, which, on sniffling or snorting, may reach hurricane speeds.
(3) Though I'm not one to spend January in a hair shirt of self‑denial, I have to say that this week's liquid theme came as a bit of a relief – especially to a household struck down by seasonal sniffles.
(4) So if China gets the sniffles, then the rest of the world should probably keep the tissues handy.
(5) Trump lobbed in: “That makes me smart.” Trump's sniffles distract viewers at first presidential debate with Clinton Read more Had the class clown just admitted on live television, before a global audience of tens of millions, that he has not in fact paid income tax?
(6) Echinacea , a favourite herbal remedy for parents to give children with the sniffles, should not be given to the under-12s , said the Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency last week.
(7) In over half the cases the infants had a cold, the sniffles, or other respiratory tract congestion within two weeks of the date of death, which seems to support the oft-quoted contention concerning the possibility of nasal obstruction which could initiate the fatal apnea.
(8) Trump’s repeated sniffling during the first two debates has also drawn attention, and Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont, was forced to apologise for tweeting a suggestion that it could be due to cocaine use.
(9) They also recorded the severity of their clinical symptoms (runny nose, sniffles, sneezing, postnasal drip, cough and sore throat) on symptom cards.
(10) However, at the less illustrious end of the scale, this surely also means physicians dealing with pest-patients who won't accept that either there's nothing wrong with them or that there is no treatment available, except for their malady to run its course while they sniffle under a duvet in front of a Breaking Bad box set.
(11) Then, right at the end, like a long-suffering, frosty school principal, she decided to expel the ranting, sniffling, whining 70-year-old schoolboy who had not done his homework.
(12) They may indicate a sniffle in the relations between the two countries.
(13) Dr Mark Sonderup, the vice-chairman at the South African Medical Association, told the Mail & Guardian newspaper this week : "I'm not sure we should press the panic button every single time a man of his age has the sniffles.
(14) By the time the service was over their steps were inaudible amid the chorus of sobs and sniffles.
(15) Having always thought of cinema as a safe space, I was ready to cry about five minutes into Nancy Meyers’ The Intern , and then continued wailing and sniffling until the end credits rolled.
(16) Trump hit Clinton on trade and her political record – issues that have helped him draw level in recent polls and may yet dominate the election – but appeared thin-skinned and under-prepared as he sniffled his way through the debate.
(17) And the first lady, Robin Wright’s Claire Underwood, sleeping in a spare bedroom due to a “cold” that is suspiciously sniffle-free, has demanded from her husband a nomination as US ambassador to the United Nations.