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freeze¹
- /ˈfɹiːz/
Sounds like frees, frieze · Rhymes with -iːz
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *prews-der.
Proto-Germanic *-āną
Proto-Germanic *freusaną
Proto-West Germanic *freusan
Old English frēosan
Middle English fresen
English freeze
From Middle English fresen, from Old English frēosan (“to freeze”), from Proto-West Germanic *freusan, from Proto-Germanic *freusaną (“to freeze”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian friis, friise, früüs (“to freeze”), Saterland Frisian fjoose, frjoze (“to freeze”), West Frisian frieze (“to freeze”), Central Franconian freese (“to freeze”), Cimbrian briizan, vriizan (“to be cold”), Dutch vriezen (“to freeze”), Low German freren, fresen (“to freeze”), Luxembourgish fréieren (“to freeze”), German frieren (“to freeze”), Yiddish פֿרירן (frirn, “freeze”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål fryse (“to freeze”), Icelandic frjósa (“to freeze”), Norwegian Nynorsk frysa, fryse (“to freeze”), Swedish frysa (“to freeze”); also Cornish rew (“frost, ice”), Irish reo (“frost”), reoigh (“to freeze”), Manx rio (“frost, ice”), Scottish Gaelic reòdh, reòth (“freeze”), Welsh rhew (“frost, ice”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, rime”), Albanian prush (“embers”), Lithuanian prausti (“to give showers of rain”), Czech prskat (“to splutter, sputter”), Macedonian прска (prska, “to spray, sprinkle”), Polish pryskać, prysnąć (“to spray, sprinkle”), Russian пры́скать (prýskatʹ), пры́снуть (prýsnutʹ, “to spray, sprinkle”), Serbo-Croatian прскати, prskati (“to spray, sprinkle”), Sanskrit प्रुष्णोति (pruṣṇoti, “to moisten, shower, sprinkle, wet”), प्रुष्वा (pruṣvā, “hoarfrost, ice, rime”), Saraiki پسݨ (pussaṇ, “to become wet”).
verb freezes · freezing · froze · frore · frozen
- Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. The lake froze solid.
- To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. Don't freeze meat twice.
- To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh.
- To be affected by extreme cold. It's freezing in here!
- Of a machine or system, to come to a sudden halt, to stop working (functioning). Since the last update, the program freezes after a few minutes of use.
- Of a person or other animal, to stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc. Despite all of the rehearsals, I froze as soon as I got on stage.
- To cause someone to become motionless. Dr Constantine sniggered and Mrs Hubbard immediately froze him with a glance.
- To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize. Over time, he froze towards her, and ceased to react to her friendly advances.
- To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill. A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, / That almost freezes up the heat of life.
- To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets The court froze the criminal's bank account.
- Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase. The headline promise in the Liberal Democrat manifesto is to freeze rail fares for commuters and season ticket holders for the duration of a Parliament.
- To prevent from showing any visible change. Pressing the pause button will freeze the video playback.
- To trap (the puck) so that it cannot be played.
freeze²
- /ˈfɹiːz/
Sounds like frees, frieze · Rhymes with -iːz
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *prews-der.
Proto-Germanic *-āną
Proto-Germanic *freusaną
Proto-West Germanic *freusan
Old English frēosan
Middle English fresen
English freezedeverb.
English freeze
Deverbal from freeze (verb), see which for further etymology.
noun freezes
- A period of intensely cold weather. In order to work properly, the cotton stripper required that the plant be brown and brittle, as happened after a freeze, so that the cotton bolls could snap off easily.
- A halt of a regular operation. Without a freeze it might be possible to proceed with the production and deployment of such destabilizing systems as the MX, Trident II, cruise missiles and SS-18s, -19s and -20s.
- The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
- A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out. The reason I said the guard wasn't the toughest shot in curling is because, in my book, that's a shot called the freeze. A stone thrown as a freeze comes perfectly to rest directly in front of another stone, without moving it (see Figure 10-5).
- A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc. a hiring freeze; a pay freeze
freeze³
- /ˈfɹiːz/
Sounds like frees, frieze · Rhymes with -iːz
noun freezes
- Obsolete form of frieze.frieze [I]f a plaine fellow well and cleanely apparelled, either in home-ſpun ruſſet or freeze (as the ſeaſon requires) with a five pouch at his girdle, happen to appeare in his ruſticall likenes: there is a Cozen ſaies one, At which word out flies the Taker, and thus giues the onſet vpon my olde Pennyfath
Freeze⁴
proper noun Freezes
- A surname.
