(a.) Attended with, or producing, frost; having power to congeal water; cold; freezing; as, a frosty night.
(a.) Covered with frost; as, the grass is frosty.
(a.) Chill in affection; without warmth of affection or courage.
(a.) Appearing as if covered with hoarfrost; white; gray-haired; as, a frosty head.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May dismisses reports of frosty dinner with EU chief as ‘Brussels gossip’ The EU delegation are said to have wondered whether Davis might still be in his post following the general election.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frosty … Rafe Spall in Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.
(3) An analysis showed that frosty weather, the existence and direction of a wind, atmospheric-electrical processes preceding the passage of meteorological fronts influenced the nature of proliferative responses.
(4) It is in order to fight in a "lo-tech war" on a world that is never named, "flying the frosty vortices of air above the vast white islands that were the colliding tabular icebergs".
(5) Fifty years later, Frostie, as his aristocratic nephews and nieces sometimes called him (his wife, Carina, was a daughter of the Duke of Norfolk), was still warding off brickbats from high-minded critics.
(6) Photograph: Fosis Ibrahim Ali, vice-president of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies , which says it represents more than 130,000 Muslim students, said the government’s attitude towards his organisation had been “frosty”.
(7) The woman who back in the day managed to win a flame war with Julie Burchill landed the odd decent punch below the belt (Poker Face, she said, perfectly describes Gaga's "frosty mug"), but Gaga remained undemolished as Paglia's critique missed the point by a mile.
(8) However, she is the most astute image-shaper in sport bar none, seducing swathes of tame tennis writers to plug her sweets, charming hosts with just a hint of a smile, disarming critics with a pursed-lip frostiness of which Madonna would be proud.
(9) The prime minister’s spokeswoman denied relations were frosty, saying May had full confidence in Stevens.
(10) Neither of New Orleans nor Philadelphia really lived up to their reputations for explosive offensive football – and perhaps the frosty conditions were a factor here – but they played hard right to the end of a see-saw fourth quarter in which each team had thought the victory was in their grasp long before Shayne Graham’s game-winning kick.
(11) That feeling of Romney's power in New Hampshire is common amid the state's frozen hills and frosty mountains.
(12) Allan Cubitt's startling script turned out to be BBC2's biggest drama launch in years , largely thanks to the warped ying and yang of Gillian Anderson as a frosty detective set against Dornan as Paul Spector, caring therapist by day, rapist and murderer by night.
(13) The frosty relations between Osborne and Johnson, which became semi-public recently when the chancellor’s most loyal supporter, Michael Gove , rubbished the London mayor at a dinner with Rupert Murdoch, are undergoing something of a thaw.
(14) The rain, sleet and snow will be replaced by dry and frosty weather overnight with black ice expected to be an additional hazard in many areas.
(15) It’s meant to be frosty, too, and it’s beautiful when you look up and see the frost in the trees.
(16) Liam Byrne, who had the use of a Jag as chief secretary to the Treasury in the last government, found that crossing a ministerial driver is unwise when details of his allegedly frosty relations with his driver were splashed across the Mail on Sunday in March.
(17) After initially recalling its ambassador to Egypt at the height of diplomatic tensions , Italy has since announced a replacement, though in a sign of the still-frosty relationship he has not yet been sent to Cairo.
(18) All of these acts have been deliberately timed to affect the result of the general election which will take place on 8 June.” Within minutes of Tusk’s intervention, however, senior Tory sources suggested the comments could be aimed as much at Juncker, whose account of the apparently frosty dinner in Downing Street was leaked to the German press, as at the prime minister.
(19) But now, with Frosty dead, and the great inquisitors – Paxo, Humphrys – nearing retirement?
(20) The White House in a statement said: “The two leaders agreed on the importance of deepening the already strong United States-Canada relationship and committed to strengthening the countries’ joint efforts to promote trade,combat terrorism, and mitigate climate change.” Trudeau has said he would work to improve Canada-US relations, which he claims became frosty under Harper.
Frozen
Definition:
(p. p.) of Freeze
(a.) Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook.
(a.) Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones.
(a.) Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding.
Example Sentences:
(1) Limited biopsic retroperitoneal lymphnode dissection subsequently extended following the result of the frozen section histology.
(2) 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.
(3) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
(4) In contrast, in paraffin as well as in frozen sections of chick oviduct, fixed by immersion or in vapor, PR was exclusively nuclear, including in the absence of progesterone, and the intensity of immunostaining was not modified by progesterone treatment.
(5) In this study 470 bitches were inseminated; 405 with fresh semen into the cranial vagina and 65 with frozen semen transcervically into the uterus.
(6) For frozen noises, the same sample of noise was presented throughout a block of 50 trials; for the random noises, different samples of noise were used in each interval of the trials.
(7) Two modalities for long-term treatment are accepted as useful in these children: oral anticoagulant therapy or protein C replacement (fresh frozen plasma or prothrombin complex concentrate).
(8) The linear electric field shift in paramagnetic resonance has, for the first time, been observed in frozen solutions.
(9) Frozen brain specimens from patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurologic diseases were analyzed using immunocytochemical techniques for the presence of TNF.
(10) For example, Asda lifted the price of frozen pizza from £1.50 to £2 as a “two for £3” offer appeared – and dropped the price again when the offer concluded.
(11) Once frozen the specimen must be handled in such a way that it becomes vacuum compatible for subsequent analysis.
(12) We have made an electron microscopic study of replicas of frozen-fractured BHK21 cells (from tissue culture) and of brown fat cells of newborn mice.
(13) The results showed immunostaining to function equally well on frozen and routine sections, and to be superior to Alcian Blue and PAS with regard to morphological detail.
(14) IFN-beta induced more enhanced NK cytotoxicity of normal lymphocytes when frozen tumor target cells were cultured for 4-5 days in the medium, or when these cells were treated with Vibrio cholerae neuraminidase (VCN).
(15) The values of the energy level distributions in crystals obtained from the measurements and analysis reported here are compared with those obtained by a different method for the same protein complex in frozen solution.
(16) Binding of [125I]-labelled ifenprodil, a non-competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonist acting at the polyamine domain, was studied in washed, frozen-thawed synaptic membranes.
(17) Steroid hormone receptors were studied in 45 patients with primary, recurrent, or metastatic ovarian cancer in cryostat-frozen sections and imprint preparations.
(18) Optimal staining of antigen rich tissue, such as frozen sections, with the peroxidase antiperoxidase method required low antiserum concentrations apparently to minimize the binding of both antigen-binding fragments of the bridging antibody to the tissue bound antiserum.
(19) These observations may be important in the development of laboratory protocols for freezing and clinical protocols for using frozen-thawed sperm.
(20) Interpretation of frozen sections of needle biopsies of breast lesions is reliable when performed by experienced surgeons and handled and interpreted by experienced pathologists.