frost
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *prews-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *prustós
Proto-Germanic *frustaz
Proto-West Germanic *frost
Old English frost
Middle English frost
English frost
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.
Inflected forms:
form: frosts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: froste
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: frosts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: frosting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: frosted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: frosted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: froste
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
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;
gloss: Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: It was one of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow-wreath.
Up to that time the girl had never really done her hair, and she regarded boots merely as things to protect the feet. Suddenly it dawned on her that she was considered plain and that she diffused an atmosphere of intellectual frost.
gloss: The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A shade of white, like that of frost.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A disappointment; a cheat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
slang
uncountable
gloss: A kind of light diffuser.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: To cover with frost.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become covered with frost.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: “The weather is pleasant while it frosted a little at night.”
gloss: To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To anger or annoy.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: I think the boss's decision frosted him a bit.
gloss: To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: antifrost
befrost
black frost
defrost
degree of frost
duck's frost
duck-frost
frost beard
frost-bearer
frostbird
frostbite
frostbitten
frost-blite
frostbound
frostbow
frostburn
frost burn
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-stache
frost-tender
frost up
frost weathering
frost wedging
frostweed
frostwork
frost-worked
frostwort
frosty
ground frost
hoar-frost
hoar frost
hoarfrost
Jack Frost
killing frost
permafrost
silver frost
superfrost
tempofrost
uraemic frost
uremic frost
white frost
froster
frosting
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