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frost⋅ing

  [fraw-sting, fros-ting]
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–noun
1. a sweet mixture, cooked or uncooked, for coating or filling cakes, cookies, and the like; icing.
2. a dull or lusterless finish, as on metal or glass.
3. a process of highlighting the hair by bleaching selected strands.
4. a material used for decorative work, as signs, displays, etc., made from coarse flakes of powdered glass.
—Idiom
5. the frosting on the cake, something added to make a thing better or more desirable. Also, icing on the cake.
Origin:
1610–20; frost + -ing 1
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frost

  [frawst, frost]
–noun
1. a degree or state of coldness sufficient to cause the freezing of water.
2. Also called hoarfrost. a covering of minute ice needles, formed from the atmosphere at night upon the ground and exposed objects when they have cooled by radiation below the dew point, and when the dew point is below the freezing point.
3. the act or process of freezing.
4. coldness of manner or temperament: We noticed a definite frost in his greeting.
5. Informal. a coolness between persons.
6. Informal. something that meets with lack of enthusiasm, as a theatrical performance or party; failure; flop.
7. a milk shake, frappe, or similar drink: a chocolate frost.
–verb (used with object)
8. to cover with frost.
9. to give a frostlike surface to (glass, metal, etc.).
10. to ice (a cake, cookies, etc.).
11. to bleach selected strands of (a person's hair) in order to create highlights.
12. to kill or injure by frost: a freezing rain that badly frosted the tomato plants.
13. to make angry: I was frosted by his critical comment.
–verb (used without object)
14. to become covered with frost or freeze (often fol. by up or over): The windshield has frosted over.
15. (of varnish, paint, etc.) to dry with a film resembling frost.
—Idiom
16. degree of frost, British. the degree of temperature Fahrenheit below the freezing point: 10 degrees of frost is equivalent to 22°F.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME, OE frost, forst; c. OS, OHG, ON frost; akin to freeze

Related forms:
frostless, adjective
frostlike, adjective

Synonyms:
4. aloofness, coolness, distance, remoteness.
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frost   (frôst, frŏst)   
n.  

  1. A deposit of minute ice crystals formed when water vapor condenses at a temperature below freezing.

  2. A temperature low enough to cause freezing.

  3. The process of freezing.

  4. A cold or icy manner.

v.   frost·ed, frost·ing, frosts

v.   tr.

  1. To cover with frost.

  2. To damage or kill by frost.

  3. To cover (glass, for example) with a roughened or speckled decorative surface.

  4. To cover or decorate with icing: frost a cake.

  5. Slang To anger or upset: What really frosted me about the incident was the fact that you lied.

v.   intr.
To become covered with or as if with frost.

[Middle English, from Old English; see preus- in Indo-European roots.]
frost·ing   (frô'stĭng, frŏs'tĭng)   
n.  

  1. Icing, as on a cake.

  2. A roughened or speckled surface imparted to glass or metal.

Although both frosting and icing are widespread, people in New England, the Upper Midwest, and the Western U.S. tend to put frosting on cake. In Pennsylvania, New Jersey, the Lower Midwest, and all of the South, the preferred term is icing. There is some overlap, especially in upstate New York, Michigan, and California, but the regions in which the two words predominate are surprisingly distinct. A few people in the South call it by a third name, filling, even when it goes on top.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
frost

  1. tv.
    to make someone angry. (See also frosted (over).) : The little car frosted me by zooming into my parking place.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

frost 
O.E. forst, frost "a freezing, becoming frozen, extreme cold," from P.Gmc. *frusta- (cf. O.H.G. frost, Du. vorst), related to freosan "to freeze." Frost-bitten first recorded 1593. Frosting in the sense of "cake icing" is from 1858.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

frost (frôst)
n.
A deposit of minute ice crystals formed when water vapor condenses at a temperature below freezing.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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