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cold   (TTS Sound)

The noun cold has 3 senses

• cold, common cold -- (a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs); "will they never find a cure for the common cold?")


• coldness, cold, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness -- (the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor")


• cold, coldness -- (the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head")

The adj cold has 13 senses

• cold -- (having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration; "a cold climate"; "a cold room"; "dinner has gotten cold"; "cold fingers"; "if you are cold, turn up the heat"; "a cold beer")


• cold -- (extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion; "a cold unfriendly nod"; "a cold and unaffectionate person"; "a cold impersonal manner"; "cold logic"; "the concert left me cold")


• cold -- (having lost freshness through passage of time; "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent")


• cold -- ((color) giving no sensation of warmth; "a cold bluish grey")


• cold -- (marked by errorless familiarity; "had her lines cold before rehearsals started")


• cold, stale, dusty, moth-eaten -- (lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news")


• cold -- (so intense as to be almost uncontrollable; "cold fury gripped him")


• cold, frigid -- (sexually unresponsive; "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman")


• cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate -- (without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction")


• cold -- (feeling or showing no enthusiasm; "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play")


• cold -- (unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication; "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold")


• cold -- (of a seeker; far from the object sought)


• cold -- (lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave")