What's the difference between cold and snub?

Cold


Definition:

  • (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.

Snub


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To sob with convulsions.
  • (v. t.) To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of; to nop.
  • (v. t.) To check, stop, or rebuke, with a tart, sarcastic reply or remark; to reprimand; to check.
  • (v. t.) To treat with contempt or neglect, as a forward or pretentious person; to slight designedly.
  • (n.) A knot; a protuberance; a song.
  • (n.) A check or rebuke; an intended slight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest No shake: Donald Trump snubs Angela Merkel during photo op The piece of pantomime was in stark contrast to the visit of Theresa May in January.
  • (2) Some observers believed the story was planted by Netanyahu aides in order to show the president in a poor light for snubbing the leader of one of America's closest allies.
  • (3) That followed Pyongyang's snubbing of Beijing's wishes when it conducted a missile test in late 2012, followed by the underground detonation of a nuclear device last spring.
  • (4) "I didn't come here to apologise," Bush told world leaders in a defiant seven-minute speech, even as the IPS daily conference newspaper Terra Viva led off with the story in an arresting headline: "US President Snubs His Nose at Rest of the World."
  • (5) His critics have variously attacked him for not bowing low enough at the cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday , appearing not to sing the national anthem at a service and “snubbing” the Rugby World Cup opening ceremony by turning down an invitation to attend.
  • (6) That spirit of co-operation represents a drastic change from the calamitous Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, when diplomatic snubs and general distrust between the two countries wrecked any prospect for a deal.
  • (7) Speaking at a graduation ceremony for international students, Erdoğan finally broke his silence after voters snubbed his plans to change the constitution in order to extend his grip on power.
  • (8) Ukraine winger Yevhen Konoplyanka has insisted he has no regrets over snubbing the Premier League in favour of a move to Sevilla this summer, describing La Liga as the best in the world.
  • (9) It was supposed to be a small snub to the group and the Conservative party,” he says.
  • (10) Swedish frustration with Saudis over speech may jeopardise arms agreement Read more The snub was compounded when Arab League foreign ministers backed the Saudis and expressed “condemnation and astonishment” at her planned remarks, which were “incompatible with the fact that the constitution of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is based on sharia [law]”.
  • (11) Postwar, the Mosleys set up Euphorion Books to publish his anathemised writing, although printers snubbed them.
  • (12) At the time it was a relatively new medium, snubbed by some of his contemporaries as crassly commercial and distorting of reality.
  • (13) But although last week's reporting suggested that a huge number of stay-at-home mothers are "betrayed" by the government's snub to the 1950s family, the ratio of working to SAH mothers means the great majority of working parents will be more preoccupied with its continued failure to help ordinary families pay for some of the most costly childcare in Europe.
  • (14) Earlier this month, the Tories announced they had hired M&C Saatchi to work alongside Euro RSCG, in a move that was widely interpreted as a snub to their original agency.
  • (15) Washington Wizards break .500 If there has been any sort of major All-Star snub it might be that the Washington Wizards' John Wall deserved to be among the Eastern Conference All-Star starters over Kyrie Irving of the Cleveland Cavaliers .
  • (16) True, as we were reminded last week, members of the EDL have miraculously survived all such conditioning; equally, these extremists now risk being righteously snubbed in Mens' Socks.
  • (17) Regardless, with all the signs of maturity MLS has shown, the All-Star "snub" may be the most logical.
  • (18) 5 February 2009 : Sri Lanka snubs the international community's call for a ceasefire, saying troops will not suspend their offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels.
  • (19) November 8, 2015 Grenville Wilson (@GBHeritage) Corbyn's bow at the Cenotaph was virtually nonexistent, more of a twitch, obviously a deliberate snub November 8, 2015 Others were quick to claim that the rightwing media and Conservative supporters had leaped on the footage to politicise the Remembrance Sunday service.
  • (20) However, activists say the deteriorating human rights situation under president Xi Jinping means the IOC should snub China’s bid for the event, to be held in February and March 2022.

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