Cold vs Deadeye - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between cold and deadeye

is that cold is having a low temperature while deadeye is very accurate with shooting or throwing.

As nouns the difference between cold and deadeye

is that cold is a condition of low temperature while deadeye is a wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds.

As an adverb cold

is while at low temperature.

cold

English

Adjective

(er)

(label) Having a low temperature.

(label) Causing the air to be cold.

(label) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.

Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.

* 2011 April 23, (Doctor Who), series 6, episode 1, (The Impossible Astronaut):

RIVER SONG (upon seeing the still-living DOCTOR, moments after he made her and two other friends watch what they thought was his death): This is cold'. Even by your standards, this is ' cold .

Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.

Completely unprepared; without introduction.

Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.

(label) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.

(label) Cornered, done for.

(label) Not pungent or acrid.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

cold plants

(label) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.

* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

The jest grows cold when it comes on in a second scene.

Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.

(label) Not sensitive; not acute.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Smell this business with a sense as cold / As is a dead man's nose.

Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm'' and ''hot .

(label) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.

Synonyms

* chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool * (of the weather) (qualifier) brass monkeys, nippy, parky, taters * (of a person or animal) * (unfriendly) aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming * (unprepared) unprepared, unready * See also

Antonyms

* (having a low temperature) baking, boiling, heated, hot, scorching, searing, torrid, warm * (of the weather) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (of a person or animal) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (unfriendly) amiable, friendly, welcoming * (unprepared) prepared, primed, ready

Derived terms

* as cold as charity * as cold as ice, cold as ice * as cold as the grave, cold as the grave * blow hot and cold * brass monkeys * bring someone out in a cold sweat * coldness * cold-blooded * cold call * cold case * cold cash * cold comfort * cold cream * cold cuts * cold-eyed * cold feet/get cold feet * cold fish * cold front * * cold-hearted * cold one * cold-read * cold reading * cold snap * cold start * cold storage * cold store * cold sweat * cold turkey * cold war * cold-weld * come in from the cold * freezing cold * get cold feet * give someone the cold shoulder * in cold blood * in the cold light of day * leave someone cold * leave someone out in the cold * make someone's blood run cold * stone-cold * throw cold water on

Noun

(en noun)

A condition of low temperature.

Come in, out of the cold .

(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.

I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week.

Synonyms

* (low temperature) coldness * (illness) common cold, coryza, head cold

Derived terms

* bitter cold * brass monkey weather * catch cold * catch one's death of cold * cold sore * cold virus * common cold * head cold

Coordinate terms

* freeze, frost

Adverb

(en adverb)

While at low temperature.

''The steel was processed cold .

Without preparation.

The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.

With finality.

I knocked him out cold .

Statistics

Anagrams

* clod

deadeye

English

Adjective

(-)

Very accurate with shooting or throwing.

* {{quote-news, year=1961, date=November 2, author=Jerry Green, title=Gross Dwarfed, But Not in Ability, work=The Milwaukee Sentinel citation

, passage=Gross, only a 20-year-old junior, is a deadeye passer, a poised runner and a quick-thinking field general.}}

* {{quote-news, year=1999, date=November 15, author=Alan Shipnuck, title=10 Ucla, work=Sports Illustrated citation

, passage=Help in that department should come from highly touted freshman Jason Kapono, a 6'7" deadeye shooter who made 211 threes in high school.}}

* {{quote-book, year=2008, author=Gerald Vizenor, title=Father Meme, publisher=University of New Mexico Press, isbn=978-0-8623-4515-8 citation

, passage=The old man was a natural sniper, a deadeye shooter even as a boy, and he served with my great uncle in the First World War.}}

About a stare: cold; unfriendly.

* {{quote-news, year=2004, date=July 28, author=Emma Field, title=Sons and Daughters / The Archie Bronson Outfit, ICA, London, work=The Independent citation

, passage=The deadeye stare of the bassist was enough to make any normal person run.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=September 10, author=Manohla Dargis, title=The real Jodie Foster, 100 percent professional, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Outlandish in its violence and its conceit, "The Brave One" would be an interesting addendum to Foster's career even without its biographical frisson, without the image of Erica holding a gun with a deadeye stare

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) A wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds.

A very accurate marksman.

* {{quote-book, year=1989, author=Tobias Wolff, title=This Boy's Life: A Memoir citation

, passage=He taught both my mother and me to shoot, taught my mother so well that she became a better shot than he was--a real deadeye .}}

(uncommon) A penchant for noticing a particular thing, or a person who has such a penchant.

* {{quote-book, year=1990, author=Ron Chernow, title=The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance citation

, passage=He examined the cash balance daily, boasted he could pay off all debts in two hours, had a deadeye for fake figures in scanning a ledger, and personally audited the books each New Year's Day.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1999, author=Ann Rowe Seaman, title=Swaggart: The Unathorized Biography of an American Evangelist citation

, passage=Thirty-four years later, she was a tough CEO who went after Jimmy's detractors with a deadeye for the jugular.}}

* {{quote-book, year=2002, author=Lilly Paige White, title=Manny Lesko: The Erotic History of Estelle Antoinette Francine Chevalier, publisher=iUniverse, isbn=978-0595223923 citation

, passage=Manny's memory had always been an arch-phenomenon of mimcry (SIC); he was a deadeye for all the destructive details.}}