Cold Hot Kəʊld Water Room I Person Blood

• i'm cold. turn the heating up.
• to feel cold
• cold weather/temperatures/air
• a cold day/night/winter/wind

cold

1. having a lower than usual temperature; having a temperature lower than the human body
• SEE ALSO ice-cold
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/ice-cold
• I'm cold. Turn the heating up.
• to feel cold
• cold weather/temperatures/air
• a cold day/night/winter/wind
• a cold room/house
• cold hands and feet
• a cold beer
• hot and cold water in every room
• I was thoroughly cold and wet now.
• It's freezing cold.
• Hurry up—your dinner's getting cold
• a bitterly cold morning
• You look cold. Do you want to go back indoors?
• Isn't it cold today?
• It has suddenly turned very cold.
• the coldest May on record
• The water has gone cold.

Extra Examples

• I'm afraid the coffee's gone cold.
• In January it turned very cold.
• It's bitterly cold outside.
• The rain overnight had made the water cold.
• The room grew cold.
• There was a freezing cold wind.
• Use ice to keep the drinks cold.
• Your dinner's getting cold.
• Every room has hot and cold water.
• It grew colder as the evening came.
• It was the coldest winter on record.
• The stream was icy cold.
2. not heated; cooled after being cooked
• SEE ALSO cold cuts
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cold-cuts
• a cold drink
• Hot and cold food is available in the cafeteria.
• Bake in the oven for twenty minutes. Serve hot or cold.
• It's cold chicken for lunch.
• a lunch of cold meat and salad
3. without emotion; not friendly
• to give somebody a cold look/stare
• Her manner was cold and distant.
• He was staring at her with cold eyes.
• She was very cold towards me.
• He received a cold welcome.

Extra Examples

• I found him a rather cold person.
• He was portrayed as a cold, calculating terrorist.
• She gave David a cold look of disapproval.
4. seeming to lack any warm feeling, in an unpleasant way
• clear cold light
• cold grey skies
5. not easy to find
• The police followed the robbers to the airport but then the trail went cold.
6. used in children’s games to say that the person playing is not close to finding a person or thing, or to guessing the correct answer
7. unconscious
• He was knocked out cold in the second round.
8. facts with nothing added to make them more interesting or pleasant
• SEE ALSO coldly
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/coldly
9. to change your opinion about something often
10. a person who seems unfriendly and without strong emotions
11. to suddenly become nervous about doing something that you had planned to do
• He was going to ask her but he got cold feet and said nothing.
12. to treat somebody in a way that is not friendly
• SEE ALSO cold-shoulder
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cold-shoulder
13. to experience a sudden feeling of fear or worry
• When the phone rang I just went hot and cold.
14. acting in a way that is deliberately cruel
• to kill somebody in cold blood
15. when you have had time to think calmly about something; in the morning when things are clearer
• These things always look different in the cold light of day.
16. to fail to affect or interest somebody
• Most modern art leaves me cold.
17. to make somebody very frightened or fill them with horror
• The sound of laughter in the empty house made my blood run cold.
• Our blood ran cold at the thought of how easily we could have been killed.
18. to give reasons for not being in favour of something; to criticize something
• She immediately poured cold water on his plans to expand the business.

Word Origin

• Old English cald, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch koud and German kalt, also to Latin gelu ‘frost’.