(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.
Hoar
Definition:
(a.) White, or grayish white; as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs.
(a.) Gray or white with age; hoary.
(a.) Musty; moldy; stale.
(n.) Hoariness; antiquity.
(v. t.) To become moldy or musty.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hoare was subsequently interviewed under caution by the Metropolitan police.
(2) Only one country – China – could apply serious leverage – because it is North Korea's major supplier of oil and food and main trading partner, Hoare said.
(3) You could fire a rocket or two somewhere near Incheon airport, just to show you could do it … or push ships south of the [disputed] Northern Limit Line ," said Dr James Hoare, the former British chargé d'affaires in Pyongyang.
(4) • Philip Hoare will be speaking at the Bournemouth Natural Sciences Society on 8 October at 7.30pm.
(5) [The call] is encouraging people to break their country’s laws, with no consideration of the possible consequences,” said James Hoare, a former British Charge D’affaires to Pyongyang.
(6) He had been in Iraq for just 36 hours when he shot dead two colleagues , Scottish security guard Paul McGuigan and Australian Darren Hoare, after a night of heavy drinking.
(7) Dr J E Hoare was Britain’s first diplomatic representative in North Korea from 2001-2002 Facebook Twitter Pinterest North Korean workers pack vitamin-and mineral-enriched biscuits at a factory in Sinuiju city.
(8) Today assistant commissioner John Yates took to the airwaves to defend the force but said the new allegations in the New York Times from a former tabloid reporter, Sean Hoare, would be examined.
(9) One former journalist, Sean Hoare, has said Coulson "actively encouraged" phone hacking and an executive, Paul McMullan, claimed that the former editor must have been aware of it.
(10) Exposures previously suspected of being associated with CLL were examined using a job-exposure matrix developed by Hoar et al and a linkage between observed occupational exposures and specific occupations, by industry, based on data collected in the National Occupational Hazard Survey (NOHS).
(11) In a BBC radio interview, Hoare accused Coulson of lying.
(12) The piece in the New York Times quoted a former News of the World reporter, Sean Hoare, who said Andy Coulson, the former editor, was aware of the practice.
(13) But one of his former reporters, Sean Hoare, reignited the row last week by publicly claiming his boss had been aware of the activities.
(14) But former reporter Sean Hoare reignited the row last week by publicly claiming his boss was aware of the activities.
(15) Labour peer Baroness Morgan was removed as chair of Ofsted in May to be replaced by David Hoare , a trustee of the UK's largest academy chain, AET.
(16) Police and the Crown Prosecution Service will have to decide whether Hoare is interviewed as a witness, or under criminal caution as a potential suspect.
(17) Someone went a bit too far," said James Hoare, a former British charge d'affaires in Pyongyang.
(18) Hoare claimed Coulson "actively encouraged" him to hack into people's voicemail messages.
(19) Sprouting broccoli, the thin-stemmed variety with the deep purple heads, will withstand the winter cold, a hoar frost or even deep snow.
(20) Danny Fitzsimons, 31, a former paratrooper from Middleton, Manchester, shot dead Briton Paul McGuigan and Australian Darren Hoare, colleagues at the UK security firm ArmorGroup, now part of G4S, and injured an Iraqi security guard 36 hours after arriving in Iraq in 2009.