chill
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English chele, chile, from Old English ċiele, ċele (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-West Germanic *kali, from Proto-Germanic *kaliz, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold”). Closely related with Dutch kil. Also akin to cool, cold, gel, and congeal, which see.
Inflected forms:
form: chills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more chill
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chill
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chilled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was a chill in the air.
Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
A breezy winter chill is likely for MLK Weekend across the Southeast. […] A steady northwest breeze will keep wind chills in the teens and single digits for the remainder of your weekend.
gloss: A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Close the window or you'll catch a chill.
I felt a chill when the wind picked up.
gloss: An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Despite the heat, he felt a chill as he entered the crime scene.
The actor's eerie portrayal sent chills through the audience.
His menacing presence cast a chill over everyone.
gloss: An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: However, the chill between the two giants did not last long; every constituency except the Westernizers found virtue in warming up to China.
His eyes are cold, and the chill between us twists in the pit of my stomach.
gloss: Calmness; equanimity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For those of us who relate to that furious paddling in some form (whether we choose to conceal it below the surface or not), we are probably also aware of what, besides the water, we are really clashing against: a culture of chill.
A heated, in-door pool flanked by sumptuous daybeds where dark-slated walls, fiber-optic mood lighting, underwater sound system, and soothing waterfall deliver serious chill.
From the very start of the interview, Lawrence's manic energy proved that she had absolutely no chill.
Granted, Tyrese put himself out there by even posting the video, knowing the internet has no chill.
gloss: A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Will and Grace still have no chill; having a pillow fight in the Oval Office proves that.
Angelina left Brad, which upsets me because I'm human," said Corden, adding that Netflix had chill, but the FBI had "zero chill."
“Las Vegas has glitz, but Palm Springs has chill,” Stone said.
gloss: A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was a courageous move by these activists, still living in the chill of the Cold War, to face red-baiting for holding protests that turned Washington's charges against the Cuban Revolution back on the U.S. government.
gloss: Moderately cold or chilly.
pos: adj
examples: A chill wind was blowing down the street.
Noisome winds, and blasting vapours chill.
gloss: Unwelcoming; not cordial.
pos: adj
examples: Arriving late at the wedding, we were met with a chill reception.
gloss: Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: The teacher is really chill and doesn't care if you use your phone during class.
Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.
“I might put it on if someone’s asking me a question I don’t want to answer. It’s like playing the character of an obnoxious, but chill, girl.”
gloss: "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: That new movie was chill, man.
gloss: Okay, not a problem.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Sorry about that. —It's chill.
gloss: To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Chill before serving.
gloss: To become cold.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In the wind he chilled quickly.
gloss: To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become hard by rapid cooling.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.
The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.
A time to live and a time to die / A time to break and a time to chill / To act civilized or act real ill
gloss: To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Hey, we should chill this weekend.
He likes to chill with his friends on Saturdays.
gloss: To smoke marijuana.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: On Friday night do you wanna chill?
gloss: To discourage, depress.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Censorship chills public discourse.
Derived words: bechill
chilblain
chill girl
chill hours
chillish
chillness
chill-out
chillproof
chillsome
chillstep
chillth
chillwave
cook-chill
dumb chill
no chill
psychill
take the chill off
wind chill
windchill
zero chill
chilly
achill
blood-chilling
chillable
chilled
chiller
chilling
chill it with
chill to the bone
Netflix and chill
overchill
prechill
rechill
unchill
chillax
chilliness
chilling effect
chill out
chillout
chill pill
libel chill
send chills
cast a chill
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