Word Finder - freezing

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Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

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The lake froze solid.

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To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.

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Don't freeze meat twice.

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To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.

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It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh.

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To be affected by extreme cold.

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Don't go outside wearing just a t-shirt; you'll freeze!

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(of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).

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Since the last update, the program freezes / freezes up after a few minutes of use.

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(of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.

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Despite all of the rehearsals, I froze up as soon as I got on stage.

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To cause someone to become motionless.

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To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.

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Over time, he froze towards her, and ceased to react to her friendly advances.

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To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

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To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets

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The court froze the criminal's bank account.

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Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.

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The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.

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The action of numbing with anesthetics.

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Suffering or causing frost

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(by extension) Very cold

It's freezing in here!

Governments respond to that inflation by freezing prices.

The runners might encounter any kind of weather, including freezing temperatures, fog, rain, or snow.

I did not plaster till it was freezing weather.

The climate of Minas Geraes is characterized by high sun temperatures and cool nights, the latter often dropping below the freezing point on the higher campos.

She stepped out of his embrace, the two of them freezing in the middle of the dance floor like rocks in a flowing creek.

Thinking about enjoying winter outdoors with her and not having to worry about her freezing cheered him.

His cryophorus was described in 1813, in a paper "On a method of freezing at a distance."

He was freezing and drenched.  He tested his power and found it wasn't just calm – it was bound.  He couldn't access its depths, couldn't call upon a portal to send the damn angel home.

The first winter she would be able to do chores without freezing her buns off.

According to observations extending from 1706 to 1899, the mean day of the freezing of the Neva is November 25th, the earliest October 28th, the latest January 9th, and the next latest December 26th.

To prevent the freezing of nitroglycerin in dynamite it has been proposed to add various substances, such as chlordinitroglycerin, nitrated diglycerin or tetranitrodiglycerol, and also mono-and di-nitroglycerin.

The action of frost is also very destructive to many stones, since the water within their cracks and crannies expands on freezing and splits off small pieces from their surfaces.

The mixture C has a lower freezing or melting point than that of any other mixture; it is called the eutectic mixture.

The freezing surface, in this case, consists of three sheets each starting from an angular point of the surface, that is, from the freezing-point of a pure metal.

When hard ground is reached, a seat is formed for the cast iron tubbing, which is built up in the usual way and concreted at the back, a small quantity of caustic soda being sometimes used in mixing the concrete to prevent freezing.

If all the water be frozen, we have the vapour pressure curve of ice OB; while, if the pressure be raised, so that all the vapour vanishes, we get the curve OC of equilibrium between the pressure and the freezing point of water.

Thus a mixture of ice, salt and the saturated solution has a constant freezing point, and the composition of the solution is constant and the same as that of the mixed solids which freeze out on the abstraction of heat.

Thus the results of our investigations based on ideal conceptions are applicable to the real phenomena of evaporation and freezing.

But the most accurate test of the theory depends on measurements of freezing points.

The rabbit flea can live for nine months at temperatures around the freezing point without feeding.

Ice cube trays are ideal for freezing basil.

It has in general one value for the powdery metal as obtained by reduction of the oxide in hydrogen below the melting point of the metal, another for the metal in the state which it assumes spontaneously on freezing, and this latter value, in general, is modified by hammering, rolling, drawing, &c. These mechanical operations do not necessarily add to the density; stamping, it is true, does so necessarily, but rolling or drawing occasionally causes a diminution of the density.

According to the investigations of Svante Arrhenius the osmotic pressure in atmospheres may be obtained by simply multiplying the temp rature of freezing (r) by the factor -12.08, and it varies with temperature (t) according to the law which holds good for gaseous pressure.

Experience shows that sea-water can be cooled considerably below the freezing-point without freezing if there is no ice or snow in contact with it.

Freezing takes place by the formation of pure ice in flat crystalline plates of the hexagonal system, which form in perpendicular planes and unite in bundles to form grains so that a thick covering of ice exhibits a fibrous structure.

In this system the soft ground or fissured water-bearing rock is rendered temporarily solid by freezing the contained water within a surface a few feet larger in diameter than the size of the finished shaft, so that the ground may be broken either by hand tools or blasting in the same manner as hard rock.

During the cold season the thermometer at night falls below the freezing point; little or no hot wind is felt before the end of April, and even then it ceases after sunset.

They cover their houses late every autumn with fresh mud, which, freezing when the frost sets in, becomes almost as hard as stone, so that neither wolves nor wolverines can disturb their repose.

The crystallized salt dissolves very readily in water with a considerable absorption of heat; hence its use in forming "freezing mixtures."

The strong changes of temperature with the seasons are indicated also by the distribution of summer maxima and winter minima; summer temperatures above 112 are known in the south-western deserts, and temperatures of 100 are sometimes carried far northward on the Great Plains by the hot winds nearly to the Canadian boundary; while in winter, temperatures of 40 occur along the mid-northern boundary and freezing winds sometimes sweep down to the border of the Gulf of Mexico.

The freezing of the soil in winter, which at first sight seems a drawback, retains the soluble nitrates which might otherwise be drained out.

Paschen proved that the emission spectra of water vapour as observed in an oxyhydrogen flame, and of carbon dioxide as observed in a hydrocarbon flame may be obtained by heating aqueous vapour and carbon dioxide respectively to a few hundred degrees above the freezing point.

The card nearly floats in a bowl filled with distilled water, to which 35% of alcohol is added to prevent freezing; the bowl is hermetically sealed with pure india-rubber, and a corrugated expansion chamber is attached to the bottom to allow for the expansion and contraction of the liquid.

Some thought they slid like solids; others that they flowed like liquids; others that they crawled by alternate expansion and contraction, or by alternate freezing and melting; others, again, that they broke and mended.

As early as 1788 Sir Charles Blagden (1748-1820) made measurements of the freezing points of salt solutions, and showed that the depression of freezing point was.

To take the simplest case of a one component system water substance has its three phases of solid ice, liquid water and gaseous vapour in equilibrium with each other at the freezing point of water under the pressure of its own vapour.

The phenomena of equilibrium can be represented on diagrams. Thus, if we take our co-ordinates to represent pressure and temperature, the state of the systems p with ice, water and vapour in equilibrium is represented by the point 0 where the pressure is that of the vapour of water at the freezing point and the temperature is the freezing point under that pressure.

This constancy both in freezing point and composition formerly was considered as a characteristic of a pure chemical compound, and hence these mixtures were described as components and given the name of "cryohydrates."

If, on the other hand, the salt of the cryohydrate fails before the ice the water given by the continued fusion dilutes the solution, and we pass along the curve OB which shows the freezing points of a series of solutions of constantly increasing dilution.

Or, by increasing the pressure, we eliminate the vapour and obtain the curve OF giving the relation between pressure, freezing point and composition when a saturated solution is in contact with ice and salt.

B is the freezing point of pure water, 0 that 2345 FIG.

This process continues till the composition of the liquid phase reaches that of the eutectic, when the whole mass solidifies on the further loss of heat without change of temperature, giving a very definite freezing point.

Thus in interpreting complicated freezing point curves, we must look for chemical compounds where the curve shows a maximum, and for a eutectic or cryohydrate where two curves meet at a minimum point.

At A we 66 have the freezing point of pure water, which is lowered by the gradual addition of 46 ferric chloride in the manner shown by the curve AB.

The theoretical form of the freezing point diagrams when solid solutions are present depends on the relation between the available energy and the composition in the two phases.

But at intermediate compositions we can only guess at the form of the energy-composition curve, and the freezing point composition curve, deduced from it, will vary according to the supposition which we make.

With the most likely forms for the energy curves we get the accompanying diagrams for the relation between freezing point and concentration.

The freezing and melting point curves are exactly similar to theoretical curves of fig.

All available evidence, from the freezing point curve and from other sources must be scrutinized before an opinion is pronounced.