Word Finder - colder

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(of a thing) Having a low temperature.

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A cold wind whistled through the trees.

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(of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.

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The forecast is that it will be very cold today.

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(of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.

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She was so cold she was shivering.

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Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.

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She shot me a cold glance before turning her back.

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Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.

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He's a nice guy, but the cold facts say we should fire him.

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Completely unprepared; without introduction.

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He was assigned cold calls for the first three months.

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Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.

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After one more beer he passed out cold.

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(usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.

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Keep that list in front of you, or memorize it cold.

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(usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for.

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Criminal interrogation. Initially they will dream up explanations faster than you could ever do so, but when they become fatigued, often they will acknowledge that you have them cold.

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Not pungent or acrid.

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Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.

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Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.

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a cold scent

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Not sensitive; not acute.

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Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.

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You're cold … getting warmer … hot! You've found it!

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Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.

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Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.

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Without compassion; heartless; ruthless

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I can't believe she said that...that was cold!

The climate, however, is colder.

It was colder than her marble floor!

The wind was harsher, colder than it was just a few minutes ago.

His skin was colder than snow, the power radiating off him like an arctic breeze.

Another part of her couldn't fathom how a man colder than a sociopath could be working for the side of good.

The climate is comparatively mild in the south-west, but becomes colder and more rainy towards the north and north-east.

The climate is colder than that of New Zealand.

The day was overcast and absent the warming glow of the sun, felt colder than usual.

During the colder months these reptiles remain in a torpid state.

Why hadn't they noticed it was getting so much colder?

From the elevation which it attains in its northern division the county is colder and is rainier than other midland counties.

July is the warmest month, and in most parts of the state January is the coldest; in a few valleys, however, February has a colder record than January.

At Julianehaab in the extreme south-west the winter is not much colder than that of Norway and Sweden in the same locality; but its mean temperature for the whole year probably approximates to that on the Norwegian coast 600 m.

This surface drifting water is cold and as it enters into intermediate zones it remains colder than the water in situ there and is therefore denser; it sinks below the surface and continues to flow along the bottom either back to the polar regions or towards the equator.

Apples, peaches, quinces, raspberries, strawberries, &c., are produced under such conditions, but the flavour of their kind grown in colder climates is usually wanting.

She felt even colder.

It was colder than usual, with the sun obscured by clouds, portending the accuracy of a forecast of snow.

Until now she didn't think his eyes could get any colder.

By nature it is a sun-steeped southern region, the home of the vine and olive, of the minstrelsy of the Provençal and the exuberance of Tartarin, distinct from the colder and more sober north.

We might at first suppose that the sun was really an intensely heated body radiating out its heat as does white-hot iron, but this explanation cannot be admitted, for there is no historical evidence that the sun is growing colder.

The colder winter climate of mainland Greece dictated the use of fixed hearths, whereas in the Cretan palaces these seem to have been of a portable kind, and the different usage in this respect again reacted on the respective forms of the principal hall or " Megaron."

The fact that both male and female costume amongst the primitive Aegean peoples is derivable from the simple loin-cloth with additions is rightly used by Mackenzie as a proof that their original home is not to be sought in the colder regions of central Europe, but in a warm climate such as that of North Africa.

It is principally trapped during the colder months, from October to April, when the fur is in good condition, as it is nearly valueless during the shedding in summer.

They would act equally well if the water grew continually warmer as the depth increases, but they cannot give an exact account of a temperature inversion such as is produced when layers of warmer and colder water alternate.

In the sierras, above the tierras frias, which are not " cold lands " at all, are the colder climates of the temperate zone, suitable for cereals, grazing and forest industries, and, farther up, the isolated peaks which rise into the regions of snow and ice.

The raven frequently remains even in the colder parts throughout the winter; these, with the Canada jay, waxwing, grosbeak and snow bunting, being the principal birds seen in Manitoba and northern districts in that season.

Horse and cattle ranching is practised in Alberta, where the milder winters allow of the outdoor wintering of live stock to a greater degree than is possible in the colder parts of Canada.

The temperature is quite mild and equable in the south-east province where the ocean influences it and where the mountains bounding it on the north and north-west are some protection from the colder winds.

The great plain of Upper Italy has a winter climate colder than that of the British Islands.

These do not reach exactly to the same elevation, nor are they often found growing together; but their upper limit corresponds accurately enough to the change from a temperate to a colder climate that is further proved by a change in the wild herbaceous vegetation.

Subsequently, as the climate of the plains assumed a colder and more humid character, they retired before the invading forests to the high mountains.

The east and west walls should run parallel to each other, and at right angles to that on the north side, in all the most favoured localities; but in colder or later ones, though parallel, they should be so far removed from a right angle as to get the sun by eleven o'clock.

But it is in the colder northern regions that they are found in the greatest numbers and with the best fur or underwool, the top hair, which, with the exception of the scarce and very rich dark brown specimens they have in common with most aquatic animals, is pulled out before the skins are manufactured.

Many of the species are sedentary, others are winter visitants, while others again simply pass through Egypt on their way to or from warmer or colder regions.

The avifauna of Ecuador is distinguished for the great variety of its genera and species, among which are many peculiar to the Amazon valley, and others to the colder uplands.

It is cosmopolitan in distribution, but the majority of the species are confined to the temperate and colder parts of the northern hemisphere and many are arctic or alpine.

He stood a head taller than her and thick, his eyes colder than Gabriel.s, and his heavy, lopsided features set off by neatly trimmed dark hair.

In the winter, all water which is exposed to the air is colder than springs and wells which are protected from it.

The reminder made her feel something colder than worry.

The Dark One's fathomless eyes were colder than a winter night, and Gabriel wasn't about to back down this time.

It wasn't like in the old house, where she would have slept cold, got up to a colder house and had to start a fire in an old stove, then wait an hour until she could no longer see her breath.

It shook, and she was even colder.

It produces Indian corn and other cereals and potatoes in the colder regions, and tropical fruits, sweet potatoes and mandioca (Jatropha manihot, L.) in the low tropical valleys.

In virtue of these physical characteristics, the air over the land becomes much warmer in summer and much colder in winter than the air over the oceans in corresponding latitudes; hence the seasonal changes of temperature in the central United States are strong; the high temperatures appropriate to the torrid zone advance northward to middle latitudes in summer, and the low temperatures appropriate to the Arctic regions descend almost to middle latitudes in winter.

The Apennines shelter it from the cold north winds, and the prevailing winds in the west, blowing in from the Tyrrhenian Sea, are warm and humid, though Florence is colder and more windy than Rome in the winter and hotter in summer, owing to its being shut in among the mountains.

The summit ascent will normally be undertaken in near freezing temperatures (Even colder with wind chill ).

The region which separates the warmer water of the mixed layer from the colder deep ocean water is called the thermocline.

In addition, many waterfowl will have flown to Britain to escape from even colder conditions in continental Europe.

The colder wetter second half term sees us indoors focusing on basketball.

The term ' climate change ' is often preferred as some places will get colder and/or wetter as greenhouse gases accumulate.