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freezing 音标拼音: [fr'izɪŋ] a. 冰冻的,冷冻用的,严寒的 冰冻的,冷冻用的,严寒的 freezing n 1: the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid [ synonym: { freeze}, { freezing}] Freeze \ Freeze\, v. i. [ imp. { Froze} ( fr[= o] z); p. p. { Frozen} ( fr[= o]" z' n); p. pr. & vb. n. { Freezing}.] [ OE. fresen, freosen, AS. fre[' o] san; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushv[= a] ice, prush to spirt. ? 18. Cf. { Frost}.] 1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Water freezes at 32[ deg] above zero by Fahrenheit' s thermometer; mercury freezes at 40[ deg] below zero. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins. [ 1913 Webster] { To freeze up} ( Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster]
Freezing \ Freez" ing\, a. Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner. -- { Frrez" ing* ly}, adv. [ 1913 Webster] { Freezing machine}. See { Ice machine}, under { Ice}. { Freezing mixture}, a mixture ( of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold. { Freezing point}, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezing point is at 32[ deg] Fahr., and at 0[ deg] Centigrade. [ 1913 Webster] 124 Moby Thesaurus words for " freezing": Siberian, adiabatic absorption, adiabatic demagnetization, adiabatic expansion, air conditioning, air cooling, algid, algific, anhydration, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, blast freezing, blast- freezing, bleak, boreal, bottling, brining, brisk, brumal, canning, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, congealing, congealment, congelation, cooling, corning, crisp, cryogenics, curing, cutting, deep freezing, dehydration, dehydrofreezing, desiccation, dry- curing, drying, electric refrigeration, embalming, evaporation, food freezing, freezable, freeze- drying, freezing cold, frigid, frigorific, frosty, frozen, fuming, gas refrigeration, gelid, glaciable, glacial, glaciation, glacification, hibernal, hiemal, hyperboreal, hyperborean, ice- cold, ice- encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, infrigidation, irradiation, jerking, keen, marination, mechanical refrigeration, mummification, nipping, nippy, numbing, penetrating, perishing, pickling, piercing, pinching, polar, potting, quick freezing, quick- freezing, raw, reduction of temperature, refreezing, refrigerant, refrigeration, refrigerative, refrigeratory, regelation, rigorous, salting, seasoning, severe, sharp, sharp freezing, sharp- freezing, shivering, shivery, sleety, slushy, smoking, snappy, stone- cold, stuffing, subzero, super- cooling, supercooled, taxidermy, tinning, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry
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