cold*/*/*/

[kəʊld] adj I

1) with a low temperature, or a temperature that is lower than normal

Ant:

hot

The water was too cold for a shower.[/ex]

a cold winter morning[/ex]

I was cold and hungry.[/ex]

Their house is always freezing cold.[/ex]

2) not seeming friendly or sympathetic

Her father was a cold and distant man.[/ex]

3) cold food has been cooked but is not eaten hot

cold chicken[/ex]

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get/be given the cold shoulder — informal to be treated in an unfriendly way by someone you know[/ex]

get cold feet — to suddenly feel nervous about something that you have planned or agreed to do[/ex]

Two days before the wedding he got cold feet.[/ex]

in cold blood — in a cruel way without showing any sympathy[/ex]

Other ways of saying that the weather is cold ■ chilly cold enough to make you feel uncomfortable ■ cool slightly cold in a nice, comfortable way ■ freezing cold/freezing extremely cold II

noun

cold */*/[kəʊld]

1) [U] cold air or temperatures

Plants need protection against extreme cold.[/ex]

Heavy curtains help to keep the cold out.[/ex]

2) [C] a minor illness that blocks your nose and makes you cough

I didn't go to the game because I had a cold.[/ex]

I must have caught a cold on my holiday.[/ex]

III

adv

cold [kəʊld]

if you do something cold, you do it without preparing for it

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out cold — completely unconscious[/ex]