chill

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 缩写
中文释义
英 /tʃɪl/    美 /tʃɪl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness. countable,uncountable
    — There was a chill in the air.
  2. A kind of lamp that burns fish oil. Cornwall,obsolete
    — There is a last antiquity, and perhaps not least interesting, in "the Chill" or fish oil lamp, peculiar to Cornwall and a remote age, which now I lay before you. These lamps are rarely, very rarely seen, never in use, and passing from the memories of all but the very aged.
  3. 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. countable,uncountable
    — Close the window or you'll catch a chill.
  4. 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. countable,uncountable
    — Despite the heat, he felt a chill as he entered the crime scene.
  5. 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. countable,uncountable
  6. The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel. countable,uncountable
  7. A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness. countable,uncountable
    — However, the chill between the two giants did not last long; every constituency except the Westernizers found virtue in warming up to China.
  8. Calmness; equanimity. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  9. A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire. countable,uncountable
    — Will and Grace still have no chill; having a pillow fight in the Oval Office proves that.
  10. A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To lower the temperature of something; to cool. transitive
    — Chill before serving.
  2. To become cold. intransitive
    — In the wind he chilled quickly.
  3. To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling. transitive
  4. To become hard by rapid cooling. intransitive
  5. To relax; to lie back; to take things easy. intransitive,slang
    — Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.
  6. To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. intransitive,slang
    — Hey, we should chill this weekend.
  7. To smoke marijuana. intransitive,slang
    — On Friday night do you wanna chill?
  8. To discourage, depress. figuratively,transitive
    — Censorship chills public discourse.
形容词 adj.
  1. Moderately cold or chilly.
    — A chill wind was blowing down the street.
  2. Unwelcoming; not cordial.
    — Arriving late at the wedding, we were met with a chill reception.
  3. Calm, relaxed, easygoing. slang
    — The teacher is really chill and doesn't care if you use your phone during class.
  4. "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group. slang
    — That new movie was chill, man.
  5. Okay, not a problem. slang
    — Sorry about that. —It's chill.
缩写
  1. I will West-Country,contraction,obsolete
    — Chill not let go, zir, without vurther 'casion

词形变化

chills plural more chill comparative most chill superlative chills present,singular,third-person chilling participle,present chilled participle,past chilled past ch'ill alternative 'chill alternative chills plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English chillen, from Old English ċilian (“to be cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kilēn (“to be cold”). Cognate with Middle Dutch killen (“to be cold”), Dutch killen (“to be cold, shiver”).
词源 3
From Middle English ichille, equivalent to ch- + will, from ich + will.
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