(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.
Unwelcoming
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) NGOs and even the Red Crescent are unwelcome: peacekeepers are rebuffed, hospitals doomed to failure.
(2) At least two social science collaborations with Dutch universities have been told UK partners are unwelcome, one Russell Group university said in the survey.
(3) "This is an unwelcome judgment, but for reasons that are specific to the sector, I think the practical ramifications will be limited," said Alex Denoon at Lawford Davies Denoon, a London-based law firm that specialises in stem cell regulation.
(4) Again, this doesn't get nearly the attention the headline number does but declines in this category are also most unwelcome.
(5) The economy may be getting back on track , unemployment falling and tourist numbers hitting record levels , but the country is now facing the real and unwelcome prospect of yet another general election – on 25 December.
(6) As long as many women still find gyms – and particularly weights areas – unwelcoming, male-dominated spaces, it will prove difficult to tackle such misconceptions.
(7) It’s best not to think at what junctures his advice to “choose a partner, trust your instincts; the next generation will be your legacy” might unexpectedly and unwelcomely spring to mind, but I hope he looks away if there are happy hour shots involved.
(8) The prospect of more rain in the next few weeks will be particularly unwelcome to the thousands of holidaymakers expected to stay in Britain.
(9) But he seemed once again to implicate all Muslims as suspect when he warned, "The sooner the extremists are isolated and unwelcome in Muslim communities, the sooner we will all be safer."
(10) The children at this secondary school will now need to settle in alternative schools, which is an unwelcome disruption to their education.
(11) Sexual harassment and "lad culture" are rife on university campuses, with more than a third of women reporting that they have suffered unwelcome advances in the form of inappropriate groping and touching, research shows.
(12) Although an unwelcome milestone for Athens, it came as no surprise to investors after weeks of stop-start talks, and the euro faded only a little, to $1.1136.
(13) These thoughts are not new – I expect them – but each time they feel painfully new and unwelcome.
(14) The battle for Allergan started to heat up just as AstraZeneca managed to fend off an unwelcome bid from New York-based Viagra maker Pfizer , which walked away on Monday – but could return in six months' time.
(15) That is particularly unwelcome in China, already concerned about inflation.
(16) "Hammami brought a lot of unwelcome outside scrutiny on Shabaab from the international jihadist community.
(17) Inducing a resignation from Goldsmith would be unwelcome, given the slim majority – even if any green concerns Cameron once had appear to be forgotten as a youthful enthusiasm, like a nicer Bullingdon.
(18) Some see a confident, charismatic comedy talent and a welcome point of difference in a bland – and white – late-night landscape, while others see him as an unwelcome reformist who has defaced the Daily Show that Stewart built.
(19) "This unwelcome phenomenon occurred in a number of OECD countries in past recessions when unemployment remained at a new higher plateau compared with the pre-crisis level even after output returned to potential, and it took many years, if ever, to bring it down again to the pre-crisis level," it added.
(20) Clive Efford, the local Labour MP, who was on the streets on Tuesday evening, said EDL activists, who he said were outsiders, were "very unwelcome" in the area.