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寒冷,寒意,失意寒冷的,冷漠的使寒心,冷冻变冷

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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\ (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\, 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.

资料来源 : WordNet®

chill
     v 1: depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender
          chilled the soldiers"
     2: make cool or cooler; "Chill the food" [syn: {cool}, {cool
        down}] [ant: {heat}]
     3: loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the
        thunderstorm" [syn: {cool}, {cool down}] [ant: {heat}]

chill
     adj : uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather" [syn: {chilly}]

chill
     n 1: coldness due to a cold environment [syn: {iciness}, {gelidity}]
     2: an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of
        surprise shot through him" [syn: {frisson}, {shiver}, {quiver},
         {shudder}, {thrill}, {tingle}]
     3: a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an
        infection and the development of a fever [syn: {shivering}]
     4: a sudden numbing dread [syn: {pall}]

资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

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