(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.
Legit
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) "When I got to hear that NI had called it legit too, by that stage I'd entered 'what the hell' territory and thought I'd just carry on and see where it went, seeing as Twitter had already verified it.
(2) (Not that his prospects for winning were any good – an actual, legit poll has Corbett down 17% with less than a month before Election Day .)
(3) There is a lot the advertising industry, credit card industry and search industry can do to help protect legit content.” Last month, Google UK was lambasted for not doing enough to curb online piracy in a report by David Cameron’s intellectual property adviser, Mike Weatherley.
(4) We fact-checked, it was all legit …" he trails off.
(5) The choice between pirated and legit content is a combination of ease-of-use, pricing and availability on a given market.
(6) Now, if it was Phoenix, Winnipeg, Edmonton, etc... yeah, legit "argument".
(7) Photograph: Rex Features The 90s hip-hop star who gave us songs like Can't Touch This and 2 Legit 2 Quit has been in the tech investment game for some time, although he hasn't had much luck.
(8) He reportedly turned down an invitation to host NBC’s Meet the Press , so it’s unlikely that he will want to provide jokes on a more “legit” broadcast, and certainly not one mired in a scandal.
(9) January 10, 2017 “Not how journalism works: Here’s a thing that might or might not be true, without supporting evidence; decide for yourself if it’s legit,” tweeted Brad Heath, an investigative reporter for USA Today.
(10) "Of course JCS subsequently became a legit theatre stalwart, but I, personally, have always hankered after seeing it again in the arenas where it started," said Andrew Lloyd Webber in a statement.
(11) It looks legit to us," CIA spokesperson Marie Harf says in an email.
(12) Like businessmen who insist a deal is legit, politicians protesting they have done something "meaningful" arouse suspicions that the opposite is in fact true.
(13) "Totally legal and legit and my accountants and advisers would take care to complete the formalities which included dealing with HMRC.
(14) If you think the very concept of marriage is hot garbage, that’s legit.
(15) Some television angles, however, suggest that his feet were legit, with only his jutting torso breaching the rules, and no linesman should raise the flag for that.
(16) In a statement on her website after it emerged that she was one of a number of well-known names who were part of the Liberty tax scheme, she said it was presented to her by financial advisers in 2008 as "legal and legit".
(17) The online portal continues: While the process of registering the flight numbers of crashed aircraft might be completely legit, and Seyefull Investments Ltd might actually succeed in their attempt to make money off any mention of "MH17" and "MH370", it still remains a fact that this is an ugly, opportunistic attempt at cashing in on the suffering and pain of thousands of grieving family members and millions of people worldwide - not to mention the ended lives of the hundreds of people on board both doomed jetliners.
(18) The abandonment of the Production Code in 1968 opened the floodgates for sex to migrate from dirty theatres to more legit venues.
(19) Leaning against the wall outside the job centre in an Islington side street the 28-year-old, who lost his position as a security guard at Tesco a year ago, said: "If people can't get money in a legit way they are going to get it in a non-legit way, 100%."
(20) My initial response was to tweet: “Fit model is a legit job that needs specific body dimensions.