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chill

  [chil]
Use chill in a Sentence
–noun
1. coldness, esp. a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening.
2. a sensation of cold, usually with shivering: She felt a slight chill from the open window.
3. a feeling of sudden fear, anxiety, or alarm.
4. sudden coldness of the body, as during the cold stage of an ague: fevers and chills.
5. a depressing influence or sensation: His presence cast a chill over everyone.
6. lack of warmth of feeling; unfriendliness; coolness.
7. Foundry. an inserted object or a surface in a mold capable of absorbing large amounts of heat, used to harden the surface of a casting or to increase its rate of solidification at a specific point.
8. bloom 1 (def. 10).
–adjective
9. moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly: a chill wind.
10. shivering with or affected by cold; chilly.
11. depressing or discouraging: chill prospects.
12. Slang. cool (def. 14).
13. unduly formal; unfriendly; chilly: a chill reception.
–verb (used without object)
14. to become cold: The earth chills when the sun sets.
15. to be seized with a chill; shiver with cold or fear.
16. Foundry. (of a casting) to become hard on the surface by contact with a chill or chills.
–verb (used with object)
17. to affect with cold; make chilly: The rain has chilled me to the bone.
18. to make cool: Chill the wine before serving.
19. to depress; discourage; deter: The news chilled his hopes.
20. Foundry. to harden the surface of (a casting) by casting it in a mold having a chill or chills.
21. bloom 1 (def. 17).
22. Slang. to kill; murder.
—Verb phrase
23. chill out, Slang. to calm down; relax.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME chile, OE ci(e)le, cele coolness; akin to gelid, cool, cold

Related forms:
chill⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
chillness, noun

Synonyms:
9. See cold. 13. cold, aloof, hostile, stiff.

bloom

1  [bloom]
–noun
1. the flower of a plant.
2. flowers collectively: the bloom of the cherry tree.
3. state of having the buds opened: The gardens are all in bloom.
4. a flourishing, healthy condition; the time or period of greatest beauty, artistry, etc.: the bloom of youth; the bloom of Romanticism.
5. a glow or flush on the cheek indicative of youth and health: a serious illness that destroyed her bloom.
6. the glossy, healthy appearance of the coat of an animal.
7. a moist, lustrous appearance indicating freshness in fish.
8. redness or a fresh appearance on the surface of meat.
9. Botany. a whitish powdery deposit or coating, as on the surface of certain fruits and leaves: the bloom of the grape.
10. any similar surface coating or appearance: the bloom of newly minted coins.
11. any of certain minerals occurring as powdery coatings on rocks or other minerals.
12. Also called chill. a clouded or dull area on a varnished or lacquered surface.
13. Also called algal bloom, water bloom. the sudden development of conspicuous masses of organisms, as algae, on the surface of a body of water.
14. Television. image spread produced by excessive exposure of highlights in a television image.
–verb (used without object)
15. to produce or yield blossoms.
16. to flourish or thrive: a recurrent fad that blooms from time to time.
17. to be in or achieve a state of healthful beauty and vigor: a sickly child who suddenly bloomed; a small talent that somehow bloomed into major artistry.
18. to glow with warmth or with a warm color.
–verb (used with object)
19. to cause to yield blossoms.
20. to make bloom or cause to flourish: a happiness that blooms the cheek.
21. to invest with luster or beauty: an industry that blooms one's talents.
22. to cause a cloudy area on (something shiny); dampen; chill: Their breath bloomed the frosty pane.
23. Optics. to coat (a lens) with an antireflection material.
—Idioms
24. take the bloom off, to remove the enjoyment or ultimate satisfaction from; dampen the enthusiasm over: The coach's illness took the bloom off the team's victory.
25. the bloom is off (the rose), the excitement, enjoyment, interest, etc., has ended or been dampened.
Origin:
1150–1200; (n.) ME blom, blome < ON blōm, blōmi; c. Goth blōma lily, G Blume flower; akin to blow 3 ; (v.) ME blomen, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
bloomless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. blossom. 3. efflorescence. 4. freshness, glow, flush; vigor, prime. 25, 15. effloresce.
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chill   (chĭl)   
n.  
  1. A moderate but penetrating coldness.
  2. A sensation of coldness, often accompanied by shivering and pallor of the skin.
  3. A checking or dampening of enthusiasm, spirit, or joy: bad news that put a chill on the celebration.
  4. A sudden numbing fear or dread.
adj.  
  1. Moderately cold; chilly: a chill wind.
  2. Not warm and friendly; distant: a chill greeting.
  3. Discouraging; dispiriting: "Chill penury repressed their noble rage" (Thomas Gray).
v.   chilled, chill·ing, chills

v.   tr.
  1. To affect with or as if with cold.
  2. To lower in temperature; cool.
  3. To make discouraged; dispirit.
  4. Metallurgy To harden (a metallic surface) by rapid cooling.
v.   intr.
  1. To be seized with cold.
  2. To become cold or set: jelly that chills quickly.
  3. Metallurgy To become hard by rapid cooling.
  4. Slang
    1. To calm down or relax. Often used with out.
    2. To pass time idly; loiter. Often used with out.
    3. To keep company; see socially. Often used with out.

[Middle English chile, from Old English cele; see gel- in Indo-European roots.]
chill'ing·ly adv., chill'ness n.
Our Living Language  : In the 1980s and 1990s, chill gained currency as a slang term meaning "to relax, calm down." It is first recorded in 1979 and comes from Black English slang, which has frequently been a source of slang and informal words in Standard English, often through the medium of various African-American musical styles (in this case, rap and hip-hop). In fact, the word chill has had several incarnations as a slang term both inside and outside Black English. An older slang sense, recorded first in the 1870s, has been "to lose interest (in something), sour (on something)." Since the late 1920s it has also been used transitively to mean "to quash" and even "to kill." The recent use in the sense "to calm down" is another example of slang's innovativeness: English has always used words referring to heat and cold metaphorically to refer to emotions, and has used cool to refer to calmness since Old English times. Chill is a novel way of saying cool down, an old metaphor. The semantic evolution of chill continues as this is being written; the new sense of "to relax" has even more recently been extended to mean "to relax among friends, socialize." Chill thus offers a good example of how living languages are constantly changing in ways that are at once unpredictable and immediately comprehensible.
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Chill

Chill\ (ch[i^]l), n. [AS. cele, cyle, from the same root as celan, calan, to be cold; akin to D. kil cold, coldness, Sw. kyla to chill, and E. cool. See Cold, and cf. Cool.]

1. A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. "[A] wintry chill." --W. Irving.

2. (Med.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.

3. A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.

4. An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it. --Raymond.

5. The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel. --Knight.

Chill and fever, fever and ague.

Chill

Chill\, a. 1. Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.

Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill. --Milton.

2. Affected by cold. "My veins are chill." --Shak.

3. Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.

4. Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.

Chill

Chill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chilled (ch[i^]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Chilling.]

1. To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.

When winter chilled the day. --Goldsmith.

2. To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.

Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits. --Rogers.

3. (Metal.) To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.

Chill

Chill\, v. i. (Metal.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
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Language Translation for : chill
Spanish: frío,
German: die Kälte,
Japanese: 寒気
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chill  (n.)
O.E. ciele, cele "cold," from P.Gmc. *kal- "to be cold," from PIE base *gel- "cold." The verb (both lit. and figurative) is 14c., from the noun. Meaning "hang out" first recorded 1985; from earlier (1979) sense of chill out "relax." Chilly "feeling rather cold" is from 1611.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: chill
Function: transitive verb
: to discourage esp. through fear of penalty : have a chilling effect on chill the exercise of…free expression —M. H. Redish>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Main Entry: 1chill
Pronunciation: 'chil
Function: noun
1 : a sensation of cold accompanied by shivering
2 : adisagreeable sensation of coldness

Main Entry: 2chill
Function: intransitive verb
1 a : to become cold b : to shiver or quake with or as if with cold
2 : to become affected with a chill chill transitive senses
: to make cold or chilly
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chill (chĭl)
n.
A feeling of cold, with shivering and pallor, sometimes accompanied by an elevation of temperature in the interior of the body.

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