transcription, транскрипция: [ fri:z ]
( freezes, freezing, froze, frozen)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If a liquid or a substance containing a liquid freezes , or if something freezes it, it becomes solid because of low temperatures.
If the temperature drops below 0°C, water freezes...
The ground froze solid.
...the discovery of how to freeze water at higher temperatures.
...frozen puddles.
VERB : V , V adj , V n , V-ed , also V n adj
2.
If you freeze something such as food, you preserve it by storing it at a temperature below freezing point. You can also talk about how well food freezes .
You can freeze the soup at this stage...
Most fresh herbs will freeze successfully.
VERB : V n , V adv
3.
When it freezes outside, the temperature falls below freezing point.
What if it rained and then froze all through those months?
VERB : it V
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Freeze is also a noun.
The trees were damaged by a freeze in December.
N-COUNT
4.
If you freeze , you feel extremely cold.
The windows didn’t fit at the bottom so for a while we froze even in the middle of summer...
VERB : V
5.
If someone who is moving freezes , they suddenly stop and become completely still and quiet. ( WRITTEN )
She froze when the beam of the flashlight struck her.
VERB : V
6.
If the government or a company freeze things such as prices or wages, they state officially that they will not allow them to increase for a fixed period of time. ( BUSINESS )
They want the government to freeze prices...
VERB : V n
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Freeze is also a noun.
A wage freeze was imposed on all staff earlier this month.
N-COUNT : with supp
7.
If a government freezes a plan or process, they state officially that they will not allow it to continue for a period of time.
Britain has already frozen its aid programme...
Diplomatic relations were frozen until August this year.
VERB : V n , V n
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Freeze is also a noun.
...a freeze in nuclear weapons programs.
N-COUNT : with supp
8.
If someone in authority freezes something such as a bank account, fund, or property, they obtain a legal order which states that it cannot be used or sold for a particular period of time. ( BUSINESS )
The governor’s action freezes 300,000 accounts...
Under these laws, he said, Mr. Rice’s assets could have been frozen.
VERB : V n , V n
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Freeze is also a noun.
...a freeze on private savings.
N-COUNT : with supp
9.
see also freezing , frozen