transcription, транскрипция: [ koʊld ]
( colder, coldest, colds)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
Something that is cold has a very low temperature or a lower temperature than is normal or acceptable.
Rinse the vegetables under cold running water...
He likes his tea neither too hot nor too cold...
Your dinner’s getting cold.
≠ hot, warm
ADJ
• cold‧ness
She complained about the coldness of his hands.
≠ warmth
N-UNCOUNT : usu with supp
2.
If it is cold , or if a place is cold , the temperature of the air is very low.
It was bitterly cold...
The house is cold because I can’t afford to turn the heat on...
This is the coldest winter I can remember.
≠ hot, warm
ADJ : oft it v-link ADJ
• cold‧ness
Within quarter of an hour the coldness of the night had gone.
N-UNCOUNT : usu with supp
3.
Cold weather or low temperatures can be referred to as the cold .
He must have come inside to get out of the cold...
His feet were blue with cold.
≠ heat
N-UNCOUNT : also the N
4.
If you are cold , your body is at an unpleasantly low temperature.
I was freezing cold...
I’m hungry, I’m cold and I’ve nowhere to sleep.
ADJ : usu v-link ADJ
5.
Cold food, such as salad or meat that has been cooked and cooled, is not intended to be eaten hot.
A wide variety of hot and cold snacks will be available.
...cold meats.
≠ hot
ADJ : usu ADJ n
6.
Cold colours or cold light give an impression of coldness.
Generally, warm colours advance in painting and cold colours recede.
...the cold blue light from a streetlamp.
≠ warm
ADJ
7.
A cold person does not show much emotion, especially affection, and therefore seems unfriendly and unsympathetic. If someone’s voice is cold , they speak in an unfriendly unsympathetic way.
What a cold, unfeeling woman she was...
‘Send her away,’ Eve said in a cold, hard voice.
≠ warm
ADJ [ disapproval ]
• cold‧ly
‘I’ll see you in the morning,’ Hugh said coldly.
ADV
• cold‧ness
His coldness angered her.
N-UNCOUNT
8.
A cold trail or scent is one which is old and therefore difficult to follow.
He could follow a cold trail over hard ground and even over stones.
≠ fresh
ADJ
9.
If you have a cold , you have a mild, very common illness which makes you sneeze a lot and gives you a sore throat or a cough.
N-COUNT
10.
see also common cold
11.
If you catch cold , or catch a cold , you become ill with a cold.
Let’s dry our hair so we don’t catch cold.
PHRASE : V inflects
12.
If something leaves you cold , it fails to excite or interest you.
Lawrence is one of those writers who either excite you enormously or leave you cold.
PHRASE : V inflects
13.
If someone is out cold , they are unconscious or sleeping very heavily.
She was out cold but still breathing.
PHRASE : v-link PHR
14.
in cold blood: see blood
to get cold feet: see foot
to blow hot and cold: see hot
to pour cold water on something : see water