What's the difference between freeze and unfreeze?

Freeze


Definition:

  • (n.) A frieze.
  • (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.

Unfreeze


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To thaw.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Contents of water in mitochondria were increased significantly with the ratio of freezable water to unfreezable water unchanged.
  • (2) Mr Taub was summoned following the Israeli decisions to build 3,000 new housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, to unfreeze planning in the area known as E1 and to withhold tax revenue from the Palestinian Authority.
  • (3) Likewise significantly different limit values of unfreezable water Wu were reached for smaller Wt the greater the crosslinking of collagen.
  • (4) But the Guardian understands that the unfreezing of the aid was formally approved by the Department for International Development, the FCO and Downing Street.
  • (5) The remarks by Hague allowed the government to unfreeze £91m in UK assets belonging to the Arabian Gulf Oil Company, a Libyan oil firm under the NTC's control, which had been on an EU sanctions list.
  • (6) He said Britain would work to unfreeze regime assets, including £91m in oil company assets, and make them available to the NTC.
  • (7) Removal of unfreezable water of cells in the drying, therfore, might induce deoxyribonucleic acid strand breaks.
  • (8) Mitchell decided to unfreeze the aid to Rwanda last month, citing progress at the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region under the chairmanship of Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the president of Uganda.
  • (9) The unfreezable water capacity of "matzo" model crackers, as measured by DSC, ranged from ca.
  • (10) But the state of the body also meant the postmortem took longer because the pathologist had to wait for it to unfreeze naturally - a desperate delay for detectives wanting to know how and when Yeates died.
  • (11) Updated at 10.17am GMT 9.33am GMT Eurozone officials predict Greek delays The newswires are now buzzing with eurozone officials saying the decision on Greece's aid deal will be delayed until later this month: • REUTERS: SENIOR EU OFFICIAL SAYS UNLIKELY THAT EURO ZONE MINISTERS CAN TAKE FINAL DECISION ON UNFREEZING AID FOR GREECE ON MON, SECOND MEETING PROBABLY NEEDED DJ FX Trader (@djfxtrader) Very Possible There will be 2nd Round of Discussions on Greece-Euro Zone Official November 9, 2012 9.06am GMT An early bid for quote of the day... Peter Spiegel (@SpiegelPeter) "I'm very much looking forward to 1st boring #eurogroup .
  • (12) Draghi said the "non-standard measures" were aimed at helping to unfreeze lending to households and businesses.
  • (13) Staff development educators are instrumental as change agents in identifying the need for change, developing and implementing a strategic plan to unfreeze, change, and refreeze learning behavior, and evaluating its effectiveness.
  • (14) Britain and France would also press for a fresh UN security council resolution on Friday to unfreeze all Libyan assets, the prime minister said.
  • (15) Water behavior was assessed from high resolution [1H] nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spin-spin relaxation studies and differential scanning calorimetric (DSC) measurements of unfreezable water content.
  • (16) Putin signed a decree on Monday to unfreeze the ban on delivering the $800m (£546m) contract for the Russian-made S-300 missiles as Moscow forged ahead with a $20bn oil-for-goods barter deal with Tehran.
  • (17) Currently the western offer consists of presidential waivers and the unfreezing of blocked Iranian assets in the west.
  • (18) But matching Labor’s commitments on things like unfreezing MBS indexation would blow a hole in the budget worth several billions over the forward estimates, unless the Coalition is now signalling an intention to drop its election commitments, like business tax cuts.
  • (19) The difference between the amount of water molecules that froze in calorimetry and the total amount of water detected by gas chromatography indicates the presence of unfreezable, tightly bound water molecules.
  • (20) Updated at 4.33pm GMT 3.49pm GMT Givat Hamatos While the decision to unfreeze development in the E1 area , is attracting particularly strong condemnation, because it would split the West Bank into two and isolate East Jerusalem, Israel is also set to give its final approval to "a new Jewish neighbourhood in south-east Jerusalem called Givat Hamatos, the first completely detached new Jewish neighbourhood over the Green Line since the construction of Har Homa in 1997".

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