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Freezing   /frˈizɪŋ/   Listen
Freezing

noun
1.
The withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid.  Synonym: freeze.



Freeze

verb
(past froze; past part. frozen; pres. part. freezing)
1.
Stop moving or become immobilized.  Synonym: stop dead.
2.
Change to ice.
3.
Be cold.
4.
Cause to freeze.
5.
Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it.  Synonym: suspend.
6.
Be very cold, below the freezing point.
7.
Change from a liquid to a solid when cold.  Synonyms: freeze down, freeze out.
8.
Prohibit the conversion or use of (assets).  Synonyms: block, immobilise, immobilize.  "Freeze the assets of this hostile government"
9.
Anesthetize by cold.
10.
Suddenly behave coldly and formally.



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"Freezing" Quotes from Famous Books



... at first, was a dirty, coal-spattered shed with dim recesses, for it was lighted on one side only, and its temperature was somewhere below freezing. Surely he could not be blamed for a tempered enthusiasm! But for me, all the dirt and cold and discomfort were blotted out, and I beheld a gallant craft manned by sturdy seamen forging her way across ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... place, these lands which I am asked to give away, alas, are not mine to bestow! My relation to them is simply that of trustee to an express trust. And shall I ever betray that trust? Never, sir! Rather perish Duluth! (Shouts of laughter.) Perish the paragon of cities! Rather let the freezing cyclones of the bleak Northwest bury it forever beneath the eddying sands of the raging St. ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various

... upon the two youngest of us; and there we were with frost on the ground, wading forward and back, from the beach to the boat, with armfuls of wood, barefooted, and our trousers rolled up. When the skiff went off with her load, we could only keep our feet from freezing by racing up and down the beach on the hard sand, as fast as we could go. We were all day at this work, and toward sundown, having loaded the vessel as deep as she would bear, we hove up our anchor and made sail, beating out of the bay. ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana

... azophenols, and split the acetyl products by reduction in acid solution, but obtained no satisfactory results. K. Auwers (Zeit. f. phys. Chem., 1896, 21, p. 355; Ber., 1900, 33, p. 1302) examined the question from the physico-chemical standpoint by determining the freezing-point depressions, the result being that the para-oxyazo compounds give abnormal depressions and the ortho-oxyazo compounds give normal depressions; Auwers then concluded that the para compounds are phenolic and the ortho compounds are quinone hydrazones or act as such. A. Hantzsch (Ber., ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 - "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" • Various

... with the upper part of a ghastly face alone visible, pointing at her with its finger, and freezing her soul with the steady glare ...
— City Crimes - or Life in New York and Boston • Greenhorn


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