frost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹɒst/
ipa: /fɹɔst/
ipa: /fɹɑst/
rhymes: -ɒst
rhymes: -ɔːst
Forms: form: frosts
form: froste
Etymology: From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Froast, Fröäst (“frost”), West Frisian froast (“frost”), Cimbrian bròst, vrost, vròst (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Luxembourgish Frascht (“frost”), Vilamovian fröst (“frost”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze.
Senses: glosses: A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
examples: text: Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 31:40:
text: It is more probable, in almost every country of Europe, that there will be frost sometime in January, than that the weather will continue open throughout that whole month;
ref: 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 47:
glosses: The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
examples: text: It was one of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow-wreath.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
glosses: The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.
glosses: A shade of white, like that of frost.
glosses: A disappointment; a cheat.
examples: text: Frosts and diffusion are flame retardant and produce similar results except that some of the frosts are very subtle in their effects. For example: Hamburg Frost will soften the beam edge with little additional spread of the beam.
ref: 2013, Alan Bermingham, Location Lighting for Television, pages 9–26:
topics: broadcasting
media
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glosses: A kind of light diffuser.
Derived terms: antifrost
befrost
black frost
defrost
degree of frost
duck's frost
duck-frost
frost beard
frost-bearer
frostbird
frostbite
frostbitten
frost-blite
frostbound
frostbow
frost burn
frostburn
frost fair
frost faire
frostfish
frost flower
frost giant
frost grape
frost heave
frost heaving
frost hollow
frostie
frost lamp
frostless
frostlike
frost line
frost moon
frost-nail
frost nail
frostnip
frost piece
frost pocket
frost point
frostproof
frost quake
frost smoke
frost-tender
frost up
frostweed
frostwork
frost-worked
frostwort
frosty
ground frost
hoar-frost
hoar frost
hoarfrost
Jack Frost
permafrost
silver frost
superfrost
tempofrost
uremic frost