What's the difference between cool and frigid?

Cool


Definition:

  • (superl.) Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.
  • (superl.) Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.
  • (superl.) Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
  • (superl.) Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.
  • (superl.) Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
  • (superl.) Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
  • (n.) A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of the day; the cool of the morning or evening.
  • (v. t.) To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.
  • (v. t.) To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
  • (v. i.) To become less hot; to lose heat.
  • (v. i.) To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Do [MPs] remember the madness of those advertisements that talked of the cool fresh mountain air of menthol cigarettes?
  • (2) "In a sea of bubblegum-cute popsters, Sistar stand out for their cool and sexy image," says Scobie.
  • (3) The fact that proteolytic activity could be detected within 2 days at 7 degrees C is significant, since bulk cooled milk is normally held for 3 to 4 days at temperatures between 4 and 7 degrees C at farms or factories prior to processing.
  • (4) The rise of the membrane resistance during cooling was unaffected.
  • (5) Cooling of the necrotic limb with the application of a tourniquet and general nonoperative treatment were conducted in preparation for amputation.
  • (6) A study was carried out to evaluate the effects of direct cooling on the exocrine pancreas.
  • (7) Day-0 rabbits kept for 1 h in a warm (41 degrees C), neutral 39 degrees C) or cool (28 degrees C) environment selected a different TE at 39.8, 39.5 and 37.3 degrees C, giving colonic temperatures (TC) of 40.8, 39.9 and 37.7 degrees C, respectively.
  • (8) Single postganglionic neurones to hairy skin and hairless skin of the hindleg were investigated on spinal cord heating and spinal cord cooling in chloralose anesthetized cats.
  • (9) During suction a flow of cold, dry room air replaces the warm, moist cavity air, causing cooling both directly and by vaporization of water.
  • (10) The conformational similarity between tubules, sheets, and the dry powder is corroborated by calorimetry, which reveals a cooling exotherm at the same temperature where tubules form upon cooling hydrated sheets.
  • (11) The mechanism of action of cooling was investigated.
  • (12) There was a best negative correlation between latencies (P27, P40 and the interpeak latency between P40 and P27 (P40-P27)) and nasopharyngeal temperature, but no correlation was found between latencies and plantar temperature during cooling and rewarming (27-37 degrees C) with cardiopulmonary bypass.
  • (13) Breath was passed through a cooled loop of alumina to adsorb, concentrate, and release, on heating, pentane.
  • (14) Napthine chose not to directly criticise Tony Abbott – it’s not his style – but the coolness was clear.
  • (15) It would appear that there was airborne spread of the organism from these cooling water systems which had not received conventional treatment to inhibit corrosion and organic growth.
  • (16) Observed proliferations of E. coli inocula in cooling cartons of product were compared with the proliferations calculated from temperature histories obtained from sites close to inocula.
  • (17) Recent experiments involving cooling of the human arm are then described.
  • (18) But Matt Collins of Exeter University said it was unlikely to cause an absolute cooling: "It could offset some of the warming, but really the greenhouse gas signal wins over the AMOC.
  • (19) To examine the effects of focally cooling three areas (rostral, intermediate, and caudal) of the ventral medullary surface (VMS) on respiratory oscillations in cervical sympathetic and phrenic nerve activity, 12 cats were anesthetized, vagotomized, paralyzed, and artificially ventilated with 7% CO2 in O2.
  • (20) The other method allowed the castings to bench cool to room temperature.

Frigid


Definition:

  • (a.) Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.
  • (a.) Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.
  • (a.) Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s not easy to kick well in frigid conditions – and the temperature before kickoff was just shade over 20F.
  • (2) The incidence of premarital sexual relations was greater among the frigid patients when compared with those who achieved orgasm.
  • (3) Frigid temperatures made fresh water unavailable, forcing the birds to ingest the saline waters with resultant toxic effects.
  • (4) That bullshit jury was fixed,” read the placard of a young man in a hoodie, bandana and gloves on the now-frigid streets of a town where clashes with police raged this August.
  • (5) Mostly, I thought about being at Barack Obama’s inauguration ; not at the ceremony itself, but the back of the crowd approximately three miles away, in frigid DC weather and surrounded by thousands of other scuffling, freezing, depressed-looking people, trying to squeeze a sense of occasion from what felt like being at the back of a demo.
  • (6) Li spent most of his career ascending the Communist party ranks, beginning in the frigid northern province Heilongjiang in the mid-1980s.
  • (7) In their cynicism about Putin, western diplomats are making the Ukrainian crisis worse | Mary Dejevsky Read more But the men were exhausted after spending the past month in frigid dugouts with holes blown in the roofs by near-constant shelling.
  • (8) The remaining women reported sexual frigidity, permanent distress due to changes in menstrual pattern, and a changed attitude to pregnancy as the reason for regret.
  • (9) The calculations show airway wall temperatures in the upper intrathoracic airways that are below core body temperature during hyperpnea of frigid air and upper thoracic airways that are cooler than more peripheral airways.
  • (10) Not only did the 49ers, Saints and Chargers all win on the road in frigid conditions, but Colin Kaepernick even rocked up without long sleeves for a game played in temperatures not much higher than 0F.
  • (11) I feel abandoned,” said Frank Archambault, a relative of the chairman and member of Standing Rock, huddled inside a packed tent on a frigid morning.
  • (12) Though Obama’s decision led many to leave the camps, a core group remained through the frigid winter , preparing for the expected battle with Trump.
  • (13) There was no relation found between sexual frigidity and diabetes, essential hypertension, marital status, pathological gynecological findings, or localization of the infarction.
  • (14) In front of me was a hole cut into the ice and a makeshift stairway led down into a black, frigid abyss.
  • (15) Short of sending a spacecraft or astronaut to the red planet to haul back rocks, Martian meteorites are the next best thing for scientists seeking to better understand how Earth's neighbour transformed from a tropical environment to a frigid desert.
  • (16) A comedian Virginie Tellene, better known by her stage name Frigide Barjot, is leading the anti-gay marriage street marches.
  • (17) Frigidity titles then increased slightly, but dropped to zero after 1979.
  • (18) However, it will be as cold if not a touch more frigid than the NFC Championship of January 2008.
  • (19) The commonest causes of female sexual frigidity in general practice are outlined.
  • (20) Police on site, at the intersection of West Fillmore Street and South Homan Avenue, refused the Guardian access to Homan Square on a frigid recent morning.