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cold is an adjective and noun meaning "having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration". It carries 16 recorded senses.
extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
“a cold unfriendly nod”
“a cold and unaffectionate person”
“a cold impersonal manner”
“cold logic”
“the concert left me cold”
having lost freshness through passage of time
“a cold trail”
“dogs attempting to catch a cold scent”
lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
“moth-eaten theories about race”
“stale news”
without compunction or human feeling
“in cold blood”
“cold-blooded killing”
“insensate destruction”
feeling or showing no enthusiasm
“a cold audience”
“a cold response to the new play”
unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
“the boxer was out cold”
“pass out cold”
of a seeker; far from the object sought
a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
“will they never find a cure for the common cold?”
the absence of heat
“the coldness made our breath visible”
“come in out of the cold”
“cold is a vasoconstrictor”
the sensation produced by low temperatures
“he shivered from the cold”
“the cold helped clear his head”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cold come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.