(v. i.) The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.
(v. i.) The state or temperature of the air which occasions congelation, or the freezing of water; severe cold or freezing weather.
(v. i.) Frozen dew; -- called also hoarfrost or white frost.
(v. i.) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
(v. t.) To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants.
(v. t.) To cover with hoarfrost; to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass.
(v. t.) To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather.
Example Sentences:
(1) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
(2) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(3) Barbara Frost, WaterAid’s chief executive, said: “We welcome the agreement, the work of member state negotiators to get here and, most significantly, the overarching commitment to end extreme poverty through sustainable development by 2030.” Dominic Haslam, director of policy at Sightsavers, applauded the goals for including specific targets to improve access to employment, education and transport for people with disabilities.
(4) However, earlier work from this laboratory (Frost, Frewin and Gerke, 1977; Frost, Frewin, Gerke and Downey, 1978; Frost, Halloran, Frewin, Gerke and Downey, 1978) on blood vessels in the rat tail has suggested that the drug acts predominantly as an indirect sympathomimetic agent.
(5) Peter Jay, who founded TV-am alongside Frost, told BBC News: "On the screen he was a very talented and original performer, but it was his talent off-screen, his quality as a human being, his capacity for friendship and loyalty, that were in my opinion the thing that raised him to quite an exceptional level."
(6) It was on the set of The Frost Report that production staff began to refer to Barker and Corbett as "the two Ronnies", while the writing team included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, and Eric Idle – every Monty Python member bar Terry Gilliam – as well as Marty Feldman and lead writer Antony Jay, who went on to create Yes, Minister.
(7) During a break between Detective Frost and Whitechapel, I decided to have a farewell glass of port in the honesty bar adjacent to the library.
(8) Each week, Frost's script, the sketches and topical songs would riff on a single theme - for example class, when John Cleese, Corbett and Barker appeared in one of the most famous sketches in the annals of British comedy.
(9) He was best known for Frost on Sunday, a politics and showbusiness chatshow, and took the weekend format to the BBC in 1993 as Breakfast with Frost.
(10) A significant potential for the long frosted contact probe may be its use in combining interstitial hyperthermia and interstitial photodynamic therapy.
(11) The Frost Programme Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frost's first outing as a more serious interviewer came with The Frost Programme, for which he returned to Associated Rediffusion, the then-ITV franchise for London for whom he had worked as a trainee after leaving Cambridge.
(12) Frost, wind, rain and drought can discolour and blemish produce but there is no loss of nutrients.
(13) We report a case of frosted branch angiitis in a 16-year-old-girl.
(14) It’s going to be quite difficult.” ‘David Frost’s gave guests an easy ride’ In a wide-ranging interview with fellow BBC radio presenter Nicky Campbell, Humphrys also criticised the late Sir David Frost’s interviewing style as “damaging” and giving guests an “easy ride”.
(15) These findings show that the outcome of frost-bite can not be accurately predicted from early frost-bite lesions, because thrombosis and medial degeneration are not evident in early lesions.
(16) David Frost, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "His relentless focus on making sure that the banks lend to viable, creditworthy businesses will be a critical part of his new position.
(17) From then on, Frost was a regular TV figure on both sides of the Atlantic, with shows including The Frost Report and Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life.
(18) Fighter pilots sent to shadow the plane saw its windows frosting over and the pilot slumped over but breathing.
(19) In pride of place above the fireplace sits a shot of his sons, alongside one of him interviewing Mandela and a US magazine cover which followed the marathon 1977 confrontation with Richard Nixon that earned him a place in history - and provided the subject matter for an award-winning play that will this year become a film starring Michael Sheen as Frost and Frank Langella as Nixon.
(20) The wreckage of the high-performance plane carrying Rochester real estate developer Laurence Glazer and his entrepreneur wife, Jane, both experienced and enthusiastic pilots had not been found early on Saturday, a day after US fighter pilots launched to shadow the unresponsive aircraft observed the pilot slumped over and its windows frosting over.
Frostbite
Definition:
(n.) The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose.
(v. t.) To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.
Example Sentences:
(1) The diagnostic use of Tc-99m-phosphates in assessing the viability of soft tissue and bone in frostbite was evaluated in the early post-thaw period.
(2) In frostbites of I--II degree this is due to a limited volume of tissue injury, in frostbites of III--IV degree-to the fixation of decay products in the pathological focus, resulting from blood circulation disorders in the frostbitten zone.
(3) Regional medical sympathectomy achieved by the intra-arterial injection of reserpine appeared to be of benefit in the treatment of five patients with acute or chronic frostbite injuries.
(4) The precise knowledge of weather conditions and position of patrols over the length of the course enabled intensity of cold exposure to be related to onset of frostbite: an index termed "Arolla" is proposed which in contrast to the windchill index allows for exposure time.
(5) This drug has been reported to decrease tissue loss in human frostbite patients when given intravenously during thawing (J.
(6) A follow-up study of 40 patients with documented frostbite injuries reveals that 65% are still having symptoms attributable to their initial injuries.
(7) Cold injury should be divided by pathological means in general hypothermia and local frostbite injuries.
(8) In most cases, the auricular changes are preceded by acute, severe hypothermia (frostbite).
(9) A variety of cold exposure injuries were discussed, including frostnip, chilblains, trench foot, frostbite, and hypothermia.
(10) This new knowledge has led to a better understanding of physiology and resulted in better prevention, recognition, and treatment of hyperthermia, hypothermia, and frostbite.
(11) They set forth the treatment that seems still limited to save what can be spared; and this is valid for severe frostbite, the only ones to put problems.
(12) The statistics of frostbites of the Chamonix Hospital surgical service include 1232 cases, 587 of them having been treated at the hospital.
(13) It’s a concern that it’s going up, the numbers of people using are quite stunning, but it’s not the most dangerous thing by a mile.” This is a position supported by DrugScience (formerly the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs) which, while pointing out the dangers surrounding frostbite from the cold temperature of canisters and potential vitamin B12 deficiency from heavy use, describes nitrous oxide as “ one of the least risky drugs ”.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Doctors at an MSF clinic say they have seen frostbite and burns resulting from inhalation of toxic smoke.
(15) The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of frostbite among reindeer herders and to clarify the co-factors that may relate to these injuries.
(16) They expect to see a rise in respiratory infections, especially among the young and the old, burn injuries caused by makeshift fires, and chilblains and frostbite among the many whose feet are clad only in plastic flip-flops or sandals.
(17) Two weeks after this induction of frostbite, all the rabbits were randomly divided into two groups: a vascularized tendon graft group and a free tendon graft group.
(18) Treatment is discussed, which still appears to be limited to saving viable tissue, especially for severe frostbite lesions, the only ones which pose problems.
(19) If frostbite is to be treated successfully, direct and indirect effects of injury must be understood.
(20) Severe frostbite and altitude sickness have left more than 30 climbers on Mount Everest needing medical help, after two climbers died on the world’s highest mountain over the weekend.