cold

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /kəʊld/|[kʰɔʊɫd]|[kʰɒʊɫd]|/kɔwld/|[kʰɔw(ɫ)d]    美 /koʊld/|/kɔːld/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A condition of low temperature. uncountable
    — Come in, out of the cold.
  2. A harsh place; a place of abandonment. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — The former politician was left out in the cold after his friends deserted him.
  3. A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever. countable
    — I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week
  4. Rheum; sleepy dust. slang,uncountable
    — Who the fuck is this, pagin' me at 5:46 in the morning? / crack of dawn and now I'm yawnin' / wipe the cold out my eye, see who's this pagin' me and why
形容词 adj.
  1. Having a low temperature.
    — A cold wind whistled through the trees.
  2. Causing the air to be cold.
    — The forecast is that it will be very cold today.
  3. Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
    — She was so cold she was shivering.
  4. Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
    — She shot me a cold glance before turning her back.
  5. Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
    — Yet oft when sundown skirts the moor ⁠An inner trouble I behold, ⁠A spectral doubt which makes me cold, That I shall be thy mate no more, […]
  6. Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
    — Let's look at this tomorrow with a cold head.
  7. Completely unprepared; without introduction.
    — He was assigned cold calls for the first three months.
  8. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
    — I knocked him out cold.
  9. Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat. usually
    — Practice your music scales until you know them cold.
  10. Cornered; done for. usually
    — With that receipt, we have them cold for fraud.
  11. Cool, impressive. slang
    — There were more than a few unforgettable moments from Sunday's Game 7 showdown between the Golden State Warriors and the Sacramento Kings. Steph Curry came up with an epic performance on a record-setting evening, and he also produced one of the coldest photos of the NBA Playoffs thus far.
  12. Not pungent or acrid. obsolete
    — cold plants
  13. Unexciting; dull; uninteresting. obsolete
    — What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!
  14. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
    — a cold scent
  15. Not sensitive; not acute. obsolete
    — Smell this business with a sense as cold / As is a dead man's nose.
  16. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
    — You're cold … getting warmer … hot! You've found it!
  17. Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
  18. Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
  19. Without compassion; heartless; ruthless. informal
    — I can't believe she said that...that was cold!
  20. Not radioactive. informal
    — "That's right," Jackson said. "The Old Man will be pleased to welcome you." There was eagerness in his reedy voice. "What do you say? We'll take care of you. Feed you, bring you cold plants and animals. For a week maybe?"
  21. Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
  22. Without electrical power being supplied.
    — Therefore, to avoid unnecessary delay in the trouble-shooting procedure, it is good practice to make a resistance check on a "cold" circuit (before applying power), to determine whether resistance values are normal.
副词 adv.
  1. At a low temperature.
    — The steel was processed cold.
  2. Without preparation.
    — The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.
  3. In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner. dated,informal,slang
    — Now Little Bo Peep cold lost her sheep / And Rip van Winkle fell the hell asleep

词形变化

colder comparative coldest superlative colds plural more cold comparative most cold superlative

词汇关系

近义词
algid Arctic Baltic boreal brass monkeys brumal chill chilled chilly clay-cold cold cold as a mackerel cold as charity freezing frosty frore frozen gelid glacial hiemal icy inclement nesh nippy parky polar sleety snowy taters wintry common cold coryza head cold pose
反义词
hot warm
下位词
brisk cool crisp drafty benumbed bitter bleak bone-chilling cold as ice cold as a well-digger's arse cold as a witch's kiss cold as a witch's teat cold as a witch's tit cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey frigid
衍生词
acold a cold day in July anticold blow hot and cold bright lights and cold steel cold steel and bright lights bring someone out in a cold sweat bust ass cold clap cold clay-cold cold abscess cold agglutinin disease cold antibody cold approach cold-aridiphilous cold as a mackerel cold as a wagon tire cold as a well-digger's arse cold as a witch's kiss cold as a witch's tit cold as a witch's teat cold as a witch's tit in a brass bra cold as balls cold as charity cold as death Cold Ash Cold Ashton cold as ice cold as the grave cold-avoidant cold avoidant cold-back cold back coldbeer cold biscuit cold blob cold blood cold-blooded Cold Blow cold boot cold boot attack cold brew cold-brew coffee cold brew coffee cold call cold camera cold cap cold capping cold carl cold case cold cash cold-cathode cold cathode cold-cathode fluorescent lamp cold-cathode lamp cold-cathode light cold-cathode tube cold chain cold chills cold chips cold chisel Cold Christmas coldcock cold-cock cold cock cold coffee cold collation cold comfort cold-conk cold cook cold cream cold cut cold cuts cold-cuts cold dark matter cold day in Hell cold deck cold dish cold-drawn cold drink money cold drop cold duck cold-email cold email cold emailing cold empathy colden cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey cold extraction cold-eyed cold feet cold finger cold fire cold fish cold flour cold food powder cold forming cold frame cold front cold fusion cold gruel cold hand cold hands, warm heart cold hard cash cold hardy cold-hearted Cold Hiendley coldhouse coldie cold in one's grave cold iron coldish Cold Kirby Cold Lake cold launch cold light coldlike cold-livered coldly cold meat cold meat box cold meat cart cold meat train Cold Meece cold moon cold-natured coldness Cold Norton cold one cold open cold pack cold patch cold pig cold pole cold-press cold press cold-pressed cold prickly coldproof cold rain process cold read cold reading cold roll cold rubber cold saw cold sell cold shoe cold-short cold short coldshoulder cold-shoulder cold shoulder cold shoulder sleeve cold shower cold-shut cold shut coldsleep cold sleep cold sleeper cold-smoked salmon cold smoking cold snap cold sober coldsome cold spell cold spot Coldspring Cold Spring cold start cold steel cold storage cold store cold sweat cold tail cold tap cold transfer cold trap coldtrap cold treatment cold trot cold turkey cold ulcer cold wallet cold war coldward Cold Warrior coldwater coldwater flat cold-water flat cold water flat coldwave cold wave cold weapon cold weld cold welding cold without cold work coldwork cold working coldworking Colombian cold Coniston Cold encolden freezing cold my cold, dead hands get cold feet give someone the cold shoulder go down like a cup of cold sick grow cold have no fear of ice cold beer hot and cold icecold ice-cold ice cold in cold blood in the cold light of day is your head cold key-cold leave someone cold noncold one-cold one's blood runs cold overcold pole of cold pour cold water on pour cold water over revenge is a dish best served cold run hot and cold stone-cold fox stone-cold sober stonecold stone-cold stone cold supercold throw cold water on ultracold bitter cold catch a cold catch cold catch one's death of cold chest cold cold allergy cold-sensitive cold shock response cold sore cold urticaria cold virus come in from the cold common cold head cold in from the cold leave someone out in the cold paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria rose cold take cold cut someone cold down cold out cold stop cold
相关词
cold snap frigidization Jack Frost one-dog night shivering three-dog night wind chill cool fresh lukewarm tepid
并列词
tepid lukewarm freeze frost

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English cold, from Anglian Old English cald. The West Saxon form, ċeald (“cold”), survived as early Middle English cheald, cheld, or chald. Both descended from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz, a participle form of *kalaną (“to be cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots cald, cauld (“cold”), Saterland Frisian koold (“cold”), West Frisian kâld (“cold”), Dutch koud (“cold”), Low German kold, koolt, koold (“cold”), German kalt (“cold”), Danish kold (“cold”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kald (“cold”), Swedish kall (“cold”).
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English cold, colde, from Old English cald, ċeald (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldą (“coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Keelde (“cold”), West Frisian kjeld (“cold”), Dutch koude (“cold”), German Low German Kolle, Koll (“cold”), German Kälte (“cold”), Danish kulde (“cold”), Swedish köld (“cold”), Norwegian kulde (“cold”), Icelandic kuldi (“cold”).
词源 3
Inherited from Middle English colde, from Old English calde, ċealde (“coldly”), from the adjective (see above).
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