Freeze vs Cloud - What's the difference?
freeze | cloud |
Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
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* 1913 , '', ''Winter Memories , I,
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To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
* 1888 , '', Rune XXX: ''The Frost-fiend ,
To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
(informal) To be affected by extreme cold.
To become motionless.
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* 1935 , , Chapter IV,
(figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
* 1898 , , John George Dow (editor), Selections from the poems of Robert Burns , page lviii,
* 1968 , Ronald Victor Sampson, The Psychology of Power , page 134,
* 1988 , Edward Holland Spicer, Kathleen M. Sands, Rosamond B. Spicer, People of Pascua , page 37,
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
* Shakespeare
To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
A period of intensely cold weather.
* 2009 , Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy , 2nd Edition, page 38,
A halt of a regular operation.
* 1982' October, William Epstein, ''The '''freeze : a hot issue at the United Nations'', in ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ,
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(computer) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
(curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
* 2006 , Bob Weeks, Curling for Dummies , page 143,
A block on pay rises.
(obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds , it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
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, title= Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
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An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
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The Internet, regarded as an amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
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, title= (figuratively) A negative aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
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, title= (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight.
To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
To make obscure.
To make gloomy or sullen.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
* Shakespeare
To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colours.
* Alexander Pope
As a verb freeze
is especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.As a noun freeze
is a period of intensely cold weather or freeze can be .As a proper noun cloud is
.freeze
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fresen, from (etyl) .Verb
- Ever thicker, thicker, thicker / Froze the ice on lake and river,
- He got to Dawson before the river froze , and now I suppose I won't hear any more until spring.
- Running water does not freeze as easily as still water.
- Don't freeze meat twice.
- Freeze' the wizard in his vessel, / ' Freeze to ice the wicked Ahti, ...
- It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh.
- It's freezing in here!
- Don't go outside wearing just a t-shirt; you'll freeze !
- As Tarzan rose upon the body of his kill to scream forth his hideous victory cry into the face of the moon the wind carried to his nostrils something which froze him to statuesque immobility and silence.
- They froze on their knees, their faces turned upward with a ghastly blue hue in the sudden glare of a weird light that burst blindingly up near the lofty roof and then burned with a throbbing glow.
- Over time, he froze towards her, and ceased to react to her friendly advances.
- The other side to this sunny gladness of natural love is his pity for their sufferings when their own mother's heart seems to freeze towards them.
- His friends begin to freeze towards him, the pillars of society cut him publicly, his clients cool off, big business deals no longer come his way, he is increasingly conscious of social ostracism and the puzzled misgivings of his wife.
- If you cheat them, they don't say anything but after that they freeze towards you.
- A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, / That almost freezes up the heat of life.
- The court froze the criminal's bank account
Synonyms
* (become solid) solidifyAntonyms
* (become solid) unfreeze, defrost, liquifyDerived terms
* freeze out * freeze over * freeze upDerived terms
* deep-freeze * deep freeze * freeze-dry * freeze over * freeze solidEtymology 2
See the above verb.Noun
(en noun)- In order to work properly, the cotton stripper required that the plant be brown and brittle, as happened after a freeze , so that the cotton bolls could snap off easily.
- Without a freeze it might be possible to proceed with the production and deployment of such destabilizing systems as the MX, Trident II, cruise missiles and SS-18s, -19s and -20s.
- Critics may oppose the nuclear freeze for what they regard as moral reasons.
- Many of our opponents in Congress are advocating a freeze in Federal spending and an increase in taxes.
- The reason I said the guard wasn't the toughest shot in curling is because, in my book, that's a shot called the freeze'''''. A stone thrown as a '''freeze comes perfectly to rest ''directly in front of another stone, without moving it (see Figure 10-5).
Synonyms
* (computer) (l)Etymology 3
cloud
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Noun
(en noun)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
Blackpool 2-3 Man Utd, passage=The only cloud on their night was that injury to Rafael, who was followed off the pitch by his anxious brother Fabio as he was stretchered away down the tunnel.}}
Quotations
* (English Citations of "cloud")Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* anvil cloud * brain cloud * cloud bank * cloud base * cloudburst * cloud chamber * cloud computing * cloud cover * cloud mass * cloud nine * cloud number nine * cloud on title * cloud storage * cloud street * cloudish * cloudless adj * cloudlet noun * cloudlike * cloudling * cloudly * cloudy adj. * every cloud has a silver lining * funnel cloud * have one’s head in the clouds * Magellanic Cloud * mammatus cloud * molecular cloud * mushroom cloud * Oort cloud * point cloud * rain cloud * star cloud * tag cloud * thundercloudVerb
(en verb)- The glass clouds when you breathe on it.
- The sky is clouded .
- All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.
- One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, / Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.
- Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.
- I would not be a stander-by to hear / My sovereign mistress clouded so, without / My present vengeance taken.
- to cloud yarn
- the nice conduct of a clouded cane