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word cold
definition
adjective
Something that is cold has a very low temperature or a lower temperature than is normal or acceptable .
Rinse the vegetables under cold running water.
He likes his tea neither too hot nor too cold.
Your dinner's getting cold.
She complained about the coldness of his hands.
If it is cold, or if a place is cold, the temperature of the air is very low.
It was bitterly cold.
The house is cold because I can't afford to turn the heat on.
This is the coldest winter I can remember.
Within quarter of an hour the coldness of the night had gone.
If you are cold, your body is at an unpleasantly low temperature.
I was freezing cold.
I'm hungry, I'm cold and I've nowhere to sleep.
Cold food, such as salad or meat that has been cooked and cooled, is not intended to be eaten hot.
A wide variety of hot and cold snacks will be available.
...cold meats.
Cold colours or cold light give an impression of coldness.
Generally, warm colours advance in painting and cold colours recede.
...the cold blue light from a streetlamp.
A cold person does not show much emotion, especially affection, and therefore seems unfriendly and unsympathetic . If someone's voice is cold, they speak in an unfriendly unsympathetic way.
What a cold, unfeeling woman she was.
'Send her away,' Eve said in a cold, hard voice.
'I'll see you in the morning,' Hugh said coldly.
His coldness angered her.
A cold trail or scent is one which is old and therefore difficult to follow.
He could follow a cold trail over hard ground and even over stones.
If you say that someone is cold when they are trying to guess the answer to a question or puzzle, you mean that they are thinking about it in the wrong way and are going to give a wrong answer.
noun
Cold weather or low temperatures can be referred to as the cold .
He must have come inside to get out of the cold.
His feet were blue with cold.
If you have a cold, you have a mild, very common illness which makes you sneeze a lot and gives you a sore throat or a cough .
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