(v. i.) To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.
(v. i.) To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.
(v. t.) To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
(v. t.) To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
(n.) The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
Example Sentences:
(1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
(2) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(3) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
(4) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(5) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
(6) The freeze-etch technique was used to study the morphology of Treponema refringens (Nichols).
(7) Reconstituted freeze dried allogeneic skin grafts contained virtually no blood, a phenomenon possibly analogous to the 'no reflow' phenomenon of microsurgery.
(8) The freezing procedure increased sperm motility in approximately 30% of samples from both animals.
(9) It is suggested that the intercalated disc functioned as a barrier to the freezing process.
(10) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
(11) Freeze-dried mannitol preparations were shown to be of a crystalline nature.
(12) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
(13) The sea ice usually then begins to freeze again over the winter.
(14) We conclude that differences in incorporation between syngeneic and allogeneic bone grafts are reduced by pretreatment with deep-freezing or demineralisation.
(15) Previous studies are reviewed in the light of new information on retrograde axonal transport, circumventricular organs, the proper use of horseradish peroxidase, freeze-fracturing, immunocytochemistry and plasma protein gene expression in the developing human brain.
(16) Freezing enrichment cultures prior to testing for toxicity eliminated many nonbotulinal toxic substances that killed mice.
(17) The process of interaction between macrophages and promastigote and amastigote forms of Leishmania mexicana amazonensis was analyzed using freeze fracture and cytochemistry.
(18) The results of the rapid-freeze and deep-etch procedure showed that the ridges observed by the surface replica method consisted of linear arrangements of elliptical particles on the ES face of the plasma membrane.
(19) Cryotherapy with high-flow nitrous oxide was applied to the lid margin for 45 seconds in a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle.
(20) Three freeze-thaw cycles released a large proportion (50% to 60%) of the TCA-precipitable radioactivity from the worms.
Froze
Definition:
(imp.) of Freeze
() imp. of Freeze.
Example Sentences:
(1) His story - which he was led through on Monday by his lawyer - is that he was outside his house cleaning Sadie, his dog, when the girls came down the road; that he took Holly and Jessica into his house because Holly had a nosebleed; took them upstairs into the bathroom where Holly sat on the edge of the full bath and he gave her tissues to staunch it; took Holly into his bedroom, to sit on the bed while Jessica used the toilet, took Holly back into the bathroom where she could finish cleaning up her nosebleed; accidentally slipped beside Holly and the full bath, and heard a splash; froze in panic; placed his hand over Jessica's mouth because she was screaming, 'You pushed her'.
(2) Supporters of the 1981 budget say Howe raised taxes when he froze personal tax allowances at a time when they should have risen 15% to keep pace with inflation.
(3) Sharply escalating the sanctions regime against Tehran, the EU also froze the Iranian central bank's assets in Europe and banned gold, precious metals and diamond transactions.
(4) Two nights before we arrived a child froze to death in the sub-zero temperatures.
(5) Small calcium injections affected specifically actin-containing motile structures which froze and retracted temporarily.
(6) The US last month froze some aid programmes, as well as cancelling military air exercises and barring entry to the US for specific Ugandan officials involved in "human rights abuses", including against the gay community.
(7) If if was corrupt it should never have been here.” Last month the EU froze assets of former president Yanukovych, and 21 other people held responsible for embezzling state funds.
(8) But it was on 9 August 2007 that fear took over – the banks, terrified at the scale of the toxic debt in the system, simply stopped lending to each other and the world's money markets froze.
(9) This friability and vascularity would have caused severe difficulties in removal had it not been for the facility with which a cryoprobe froze and grasped tumor tissue.
(10) In fact, a stathmokinetic experiment, in which vinblastine was used to prevent cell division in exponentially growing Friend leukemia cell cultures, demonstrated that ditercalinium effectively "froze" cells in position throughout the cell cycle, in a dose-dependent fashion.
(11) In August, DfID froze money to the Ugandan prime minister's office amid reports that funds from several European countries had been funnelled into the private bank accounts of officials in prime minister Patrick Amama Mbabazi's office.
(12) On Monday Liechtenstein's highest court froze accounts in three banks believed to be linked to Abacha and worth about $100m.
(13) Low point Catastrophic defeat in the first round of the 2001 French Open when, despite being the local favourite, her confidence collapsed and she froze on court.
(14) The order of relative survival of the different stages was different from that of the lowest F50 (the temperature at which 50% froze), suggesting that an ability to supercool was not the only determinant of survival.
(15) The topographical distribution of the dopamine, D-LSD and L-isoproterenol adenylate cyclase activities were examined in homogenates prepared from discs punched out on serial frozed (--7C) slices of the striatum.
(16) By contrast, preparations extraced from frozed pituitaries contained GH mainly in the native monomeric form.
(17) That is not on the agenda following his minimal contribution under Brendan Rodgers, who ultimately froze out Balotelli from first-team training, and the accepted panic signing continues to cost Liverpool money.
(18) A 66-year-old defence solicitor said: "The judges froze in the headlights like frightened rabbits, and refused to consider the individual cases that came before them because they were paralysed with fear."
(19) The kingdom’s government has told its people that from now on not only are you not allowed rights, you’re not allowed to complain about it.” Authorities suspended al-Wefaq’s activities and froze its funds last month, accusing the group of creating “a new generation that carries the spirit of hatred” and of having links with “sectarian and extremist political parties that adopt terrorism”.
(20) In a separate tax evasion case in Brazil, Neymar’s parents last week denied any wrongdoing after a judge froze almost £33m of the player’s assets.