Freezename

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  A surname.

freezeverb詞源 1/ˈfɹiːz/

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  Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

  • The lake froze solid.
  • 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, Book XX: The Famine, Ever thicker, thicker, thicker / Froze the ice on lake and river,
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  To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.

  • Don't freeze meat twice.
  • 1888, Elias Lönnrot, John Martin Crawford (translator, from German), The Kalevala, Rune XXX: The Frost-fiend, Freeze the wizard in his vessel, / Freeze to ice the wicked Ahti, ...
• 3

  To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.

  • It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh.
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  informalTo be affected by extreme cold.

  • It's freezing in here!
  • Don't go outside wearing just a t-shirt; you'll freeze!
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  computingengineeringmathematicsOf a machine or system, to come to a sudden halt, to stop working (functioning).

  • Since the last update, the program freezes after a few minutes of use.
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  Of a person or other animal, to stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.

  • Despite all of the rehearsals, I froze as soon as I got on stage.
  • 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.
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  To cause someone to become motionless.

  • Dr Constantine sniggered and Mrs Hubbard immediately froze him with a glance.
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  To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.

  • 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.

freezenoun詞源 2/ˈfɹiːz/

• 1

  A period of intensely cold weather.

  • 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.
• 2

  A halt of a regular operation.

  • 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.
  • 1983 October 3, Ted Kennedy, speech, Truth and Tolerance in America, Critics may oppose the nuclear freeze for what they regard as moral reasons.
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  computingengineeringmathematicsThe state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.

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  ball-gamescurlinggamesA precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.

  • 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).
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  businessfinanceA block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.

  • a hiring freeze;  a pay freeze
  • "We need a different understanding of revenues and public expenditure. The 15-year freeze on fuel duty and lack of tax on aviation fuel are effectively a huge subsidy to those forms of travel, but they are not described as subsidy because they are foregone revenue. Yet if you invest to hold rail fares, it's seen as subsidy."

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• frieze