freeze
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.Examples: "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,"; "He got to Dawson before the river froze, and now I suppose I won't hear any more until spring."Synonyms: solidifyAntonyms: defrost, liquify, unfreezecopulativeintransitive
2. (transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.Examples: "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, ..."transitive
3. (intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.Examples: "It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh."intransitive
4. (intransitive, informal) To be affected by extreme cold.Examples: "It's freezing in here!"; "Don't go outside wearing just a t-shirt; you'll freeze!"informalintransitive
5. (intransitive) (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).Examples: "Since the last update, the program freezes after a few minutes of use."Synonyms: freeze up, grind to a halt, hang, lock up, seize, seize upintransitive
6. (intransitive) (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.Examples: "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."; "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."Synonyms: freeze upintransitive
noun (English)
1. (computing) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.Synonyms: hang
2. (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.Examples: "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)."
3. (business, finance) A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.Examples: "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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