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单词 freezing
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freezingn.

/ˈfriːzɪŋ/
Etymology: < freeze v. + -ing suffix1.
The action of freeze v.; also, freezing in, freezing out, etc.: see freeze v. 5b, 7 at freezing = at freezing-point (see freeze v. 2).
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > frozen condition > freezing or becoming frozen
freezinga1398
congelationc1540
glaciation1646
congealing1762
gelation1854
freeze-up1876
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun]
discommunion1590
ostracism1602
disfellowship1608
expurgation1615
elimination1623
estrangement1660
social exclusion1831
fugitation1837
leperhood1875
ostracization1875
boycott1880
boycotting1880
boycottism1880
freeze-out1883
freezing out1891
purge1893
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xlvi. 1311 Grees ymade [emended in ed. to ys made] fast and hard by fresyng and by colde.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 29v To sowe it..of October, that it may take deepe roote before the freezing and colde in Winter.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xcvii. sig. G What freezings haue I felt. View more context for this quotation
1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 91 If you..expose it to a very sharp freezing.
1803 T. Beddoes Hygëia III. x. 34 The weather was at freezing.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxxi. 420 Now awaits the freezing-in of her winter cradle.
1891 E. B. Howell in Advance (Chicago) 25 June The law permits the unjust ‘freezing out’ of the small capitalist.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
freezing chamber n.
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1889 E. Wakefield N.Z. after Fifty Years vi. 130 The sheep..are skilfully slaughtered..and trucked down to the hulk, the whole interior of which is a freezing chamber.
1896 Daily News 28 May 6/3 Delahaeff's body lies in the freezing chamber at the Morgue.
C2.
freezing-mixture n. a mixture of two or more substances, e.g. salt and snow, which, while remaining liquid, is cold enough to freeze some other liquid within its influence.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > cooling agent or appliance > [noun] > freezing agent > specific
freezing-mixture1695
1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 214 A strong freezing Mixture.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 155 The air may also be drawn through tubes cooled by a freezing mixture.
freezing-point n. the point on the thermometer marking the temperature at which a liquid, esp. water, freezes.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > [noun] > at which some specific condition occurs
freezing-point1748
boiling-point1773
absolute zero1798
firing point1807
melting temperature1827
ice point1832
dew-point1833
melting point1838
neutral temperature1854
fusing point or temperature1860
welding point1868
flashing-point1878
flashpoint1878
mp1880
ignition temperature1881
silver-point1882
fire point1884
ignition point1887
neutral point1892
smoking point1915
smoking temperature1915
pour point1922
smoke point1933
1748 Philos. Trans. 1747 (Royal Soc.) 44 613 17 degrees above 0 or freezing Point.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxv. 190 The temperature of the air was 20° Fahr. below the freezing point.
freezing process n. (see quot. 1967).
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > [noun] > other specific mining processes > in coal-mining
outstroke1747
holing1841
coal-cutting1842
patio1845
sumping1849
bottoming1856
salting1856
patio process1862
spragging1865
yardage1877
booming1880
brushing1883
filling1883
sounding1883
yard-work1883
blanketing1884
goafing1888
freezing process1889
power loading1901
bashing1905
rock dusting1915
mucking1918
solid stowing1929
stone-dusting1930
roof bolting1949
rock bolting1955
1889 Science XIV. 142/1 The Pœtsch freezing process in mining operations. A brief description of the freezing process devised by Herman Pœtsch for sinking shafts in quicksands and other difficult ground was given.
1905 T. C. Futers Mech. Engin. Collieries I. 73 (caption) Freezing process of shaft sinking.
1967 Gloss. Mining Terms (B.S.I.) ix. 9 Freezing process, a method of consolidating water-bearing strata, to prepare it for shaft sinking, in which a freezing agent (usually brine) is circulated through suitably disposed boreholes drilled into the strata around the site of the shaft.
freezing works n. Australian and New Zealand an establishment in which animals are killed and the carcasses prepared and frozen for export.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > abattoir
slaughterhousec1374
slaughter-yard1688
abattoir1809
the Yards1865
saladero1870
freezing works1889
chicken factory1893
1889 E. Wakefield N.Z. after Fifty Years vi. 130 The solution of all their difficulties..was found to lie in having freezing works on shore, near the place of shipment.
1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xxxv. 464 For the shipment of the Queensland supply, freezing works are in process of construction in Brisbane, Rockhampton, and Townsville.
1906 E. W. Elkington Adrift in N.Z. v. 72 Cattle and sheep in their thousands..eventually find their way, via the freezing works, to our own dinner-tables.
1963 N. Hilliard Piece of Land 28 Within smelling distance of the freezing works and the stock~yards.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

freezingadj.

/ˈfriːzɪŋ/
Etymology: < freeze v. + -ing suffix2.
1.
a. That freezes, in senses of the verb. Frequently of drizzle, fog, rain, etc.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [adjective] > freezing
freezinga1616
zero1836
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [adjective] > intensely cold, freezing, or frosty > of fog, rain, etc.
freezing1797
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. iii. 39.
1673 J. Milton On Death Fair Infant iii, in Poems (new ed.) 18 Through middle empire of the freezing aire.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 144 By Strymon's freezing Streams he sate alone. View more context for this quotation
1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 100. ⁋1 A freezing Night.
1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 10 In a freezing cold, clay contracts more than any other earth.
1797 Encycl. Brit. VII. 460 Freezing Rain, or Raining Ice, a very uncommon kind of shower.
1940 S. Pettersen Weather Anal. & Forecasting i. 40 In the United States weather reports, rain and/or drizzle that produce glazed frost are reported as ‘freezing rain’.
1958 Polar Record May 92 Freezing drizzle, drizzle, the drops of which freeze on impact with the ground or with objects on the earth's surface or with aircraft in flight.
1963 Meteorol. Gloss. (Meteorol. Office) (ed. 4) Freezing drizzle, fog, rain, supercooled water drops of drizzle (or fog or rain) which freeze on impact with the ground (in aviation with an aircraft) to form glazed frost or, in the case of the smaller droplets which comprise fog, rime.
1968 G. R. Rumney Climatol. v. 76/1 An ice storm, or freezing rain, occurs when liquid drops of rain, having a temperature slightly below freezing, fall upon solid surfaces of the earth..whose temperature is well below freezing.
b. Quasi-adv. in adjectival phrase freezing cold (cf. boiling hot).
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1907 Smart Set Mar. 96 They transferred from the first stifling car to the second one, freezing cold.
2. figurative; esp. of manners: Chilling.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > cold or lacking warm feeling
winter-coldOE
coldc1175
cheald1340
umbrous1483
key-colda1535
frosty1548
frostbitten1564
icy1567
wintry1579
cold-hearteda1616
unwarmeda1625
dry1637
cool1641
frigidal1651
frigid1658
thieveless1725
cool-hearted1748
wintry1748
chill1751
cold as charity1795
freezing1813
ice-cold1815
chilly1841
impersonal1846
pincé1858
ice-cool1891
touch-me-not-ish1895
marmorean1902
1813 H. Smith & J. Smith Horace in London i. xxxi. 95 Oh grant that he may never spread Its freezing influence to my heart.
1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies (1875) iii. 27 Her sudden burst of enthusiasm met with but a freezing reception.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cxxii. 191 A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part. View more context for this quotation
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 538 Many..had been repelled by his freezing looks.
1886 W. Hooper Sketches Acad. Life 16 To regulate all things with freezing accuracy and precision.

Derivatives

ˈfreezingly adv. in a freezing manner.
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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adverb] > coldly or without warm feeling
freezinglya1420
coldly1550
frostily1616
coolly1627
chilly1640
wintry1691
chillinglyc1784
icily1825
wintrily1843
frozenly1851
frigidly1883
chillily1886
a1420 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 1806 Thoght me brenneth and freesyngly keelith.
1798 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 226 I wrote to him very freezingly.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. iv. 59 Her eye of ice continued to dwell freezingly on mine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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