单词 | freezing |
释义 | freezingn. 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 1. a. That freezes, in senses of the verb. Frequently of drizzle, fog, rain, etc. ΘΚΠ 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). ΚΠ 1907 Smart Set Mar. 96 They transferred from the first stifling car to the second one, freezing cold. 2. figurative; esp. of manners: Chilling. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.a1398adj.a1420 |
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