(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.
Nerveless
Definition:
(a.) Destitute of nerves.
(a.) Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless.
Example Sentences:
(1) I just thought it was a little beyond me this year.” On those hazy days in London Ennis-Hill had blown away the opposition with a nerveless and spectacularly quick hurdles on the opening morning of competition that left her cruising to victory.
(2) HU-P animals resemble nerveless animals in their lack of behavioural responses but they contain about 2% nerve cells.
(3) Southampton must be optimistic for the rest of the season too, after nervelessly outplaying Liverpool on their own turf.
(4) Come the bell, the upstart nervelessly played it cool, almost a laughingly gay matador, his speed of hand and foot totally nullifying Liston’s wicked jab, the key to his armoury.
(5) Scott Murray Benteke scored a spectacular bicycle kick at Old Trafford, tucked away the most nerveless penalty of the season at Crystal Palace, and was one of only three players to score a winner against Leicester.
(6) Cabaye’s retake to the top corner was nerveless after his first effort was disallowed for encroachment by the young man whose ongoing silliness would soon lead to an early exit.
(7) Just before 7pm, when the Wolverhampton-born gymnast Kristian Thomas landed the final tumble of a highly charged and nerveless routine, the North Greenwich Arena (as we call it for the Games) filled with the kind of national excitement for which it was conceived: Britain's men had won its first team gymnastics medal for exactly a century.
(8) Both a nerveless goalscorer and the hare that made an entire team run behind him.
(9) Accepting a pass from Geremi, who had collected Gabbidon's poor clearance, he hit an angled shot that was deflected by Collins's boot into the path of Crespo, who provided a nerveless finish from close range.
(10) Owen Farrell's nerveless goal-kicking and another Charlie Hodgson charge-down did the job.
(11) Upon hand feeding, some HU-P animals will recover but most will produce nerveless buds.
(12) What little Matic and Mikel let through, John Terry or Gary Cahill were generally managing to mop up, until with one sublime turn and purposeful sprint towards goal, Sterling split the centre-backs and came up with a nerveless finish to give Liverpool a lifeline.
(13) Nerveless animals show broad tentacle distribution patterns with increased means and variances.
(14) His 85th-minute penalty provoked a dispute with Jordan Henderson on the pitch and a rebuke from Steven Gerrard sitting in a television studio, but all that mattered was that it was nerveless, accurate and broke Besiktas’ resilience in the Europa League .
(15) With the half-time substitute Mertens and Eden Hazard finally injecting some urgency, the pair combined on the counterattack and the Napoli player nervelessly slotted home the winner.
(16) You’d walk past him in the street without taking a second look, but he is Virgin Galactic’s chief test pilot and therefore possesses the kind of nerveless courage that is the preserve of a tiny fraction of humanity.
(17) Tom Daley delivered a nerveless performance on Saturday night to claim an extraordinary bronze medal in the 10m platform dive .
(18) And Graham does it – splitting the uprights nervelessly to win the game for New Orleans.
(19) Another was blown away by a nerveless drive volley from midcourt.
(20) Neverless hydra produced by hydroxyurea resemble nerveless animals produced by other techniques, in their behavioural, morphological and developmental properties.