(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.
Groovy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The yes campaign is really suggesting that Scotland becomes Britain's Massachusetts, lacking its own currency and central bank but using its limited autonomy to have higher taxes and public spending, and to be altogether more groovy than the rest of the country.
(2) Corrupt officers based at the now disbanded unit were known as the "groovy gang".
(3) Using the Twitter handle @3rdeyegirl , the singer has since promoted the video for his new single, Groovy Potential, which now appears on the 3rd Eye Girl YouTube account .
(4) With lots of pockets and slightly puffy sleeves (yet curiously appearing as though it would be too tight to zip up) the jacket was East Berlin before the wall went down, it was Malcolm Turnbull on Q&A and before he lost weight, it was your “groovy” maths teacher supervising your year 10 formal, it was the Masters Apprentices reunion tour in the early 1990s.
(5) "This bill will go down in history as an actual groovy piece of legislation," he said.
(6) This wasn't just the case, as it had been in the 1960s, of groovy pop singers wearing cool clothes.
(7) • Calle 31 de Agosto 3, +34 943 427495. restaurantelavina.com , open daily except closed all November and last week of June, from €1.60 Atari Gastroteka Bang opposite the baroque basilica of Santa Maria, this friendly modern gastro-bar attracts a young, groovy crowd.
(8) There isn't a plethora of dining options in José Ignacio - apart from Namm, which serves so-so sushi and fusion cuisine in groovy beach huts, and the aforementioned La Huella and Marismo, you have to drive out to celebrity chef Francis Mallmann's Garzón if you want something spectacular on your plate.
(9) In the homemade LGSM documentary, we also glimpse a tall, handsome fellow wearing groovy leather trousers, shaking a donations bucket outside Gay's the Word bookshop in London's Marchmont Street – this is Jonathan Blake.
(10) Despite the grooviness of being a “hands-on dad”, as suggested by various male celebrities (“I did the first nappy: it’s a badge of honour” – Prince William; “You need to get a bit of shit on your hands” – Rio Ferdinand; “I actually like being with my children” – Nick Clegg), the majority of mums still do the majority of childcare.
(11) Google and Pixar led the way with their infamously groovy work practices, but other employers are joining in.
(12) The recognition of the Horrible Histories brand is so strong that they even cheered the names Groovy Greeks and Rotten Romans."
(13) And finally, at the opposing end of the spectrum to the other end of the spectrum – thereby hopelessly triangulating the spectrum – we have "blue-sky" policy guru Steve Hilton, who apparently wanders around Downing Street barefoot, "thinking outside the box" like some groovy CEO.
(14) It was too slow for the punks, not groovy enough for the disco chaps.
(15) Still, that's not the point of this rather groovy feature, dad, which sadly ends tonight.
(16) Just as I'm forced to mentally excise myself from the reality that my personal tax contributions pay for refugee internment camps, so the Australian right must suck it up, accept that libertarianism is more than just a conservative attempt at a groovy haircut, and learn to live with the free and democratic expressions of people whom they don't like.
(17) groovy CEO bullshit routinely found cluttering the shelves of every airport bookshop in the world.
(18) Guests can cook in the huge communal kitchen, kick back in the groovy bar tucked up in the trees and, on rainy days, chill out in the movie room.
(19) His new tour will see him recording podcasts in front of UK audiences, as well as screening the hour-long animated film Jay and Silent Bob's Super Groovy Cartoon Movie (directed by Steve Stark).
(20) Weil even moonlights as a DJ, spinning powerpop by acts including the Flamin’ Groovies.