Usually means: Absence or reduction of heat.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word cold:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. cold, the cold: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cold: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cold: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cold: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cold: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cold, cold: Wordnik
  7. cold: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cold: Wiktionary
  9. cold: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cold: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cold: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. COLD: Dictionary.com
  13. cold: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cold: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. COLD, ColD, Cold (Annie Lennox song), Cold (Cold album), Cold (Crossfade song), Cold (Kanye West song), Cold (Lycia album), Cold (Maroon 5 song), Cold (Static-X song), Cold (Tears for Fears song), Cold (band), Cold (disambiguation), Cold (mixtape), Cold (novel), Cold, The Cold (Modern Family), The Cold (The West Wing), The Cold (album), The Cold (rock band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cold: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cold: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cold: Rhymezone
  19. cold: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cold: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cold: Free Dictionary
  22. cold: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. cold: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. cold: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. cold: Legal dictionary
  3. Cold: Radio Programming and Production

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. COLD: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. Cold (virus), cold: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. COLD (chronic obstructive lung disease): MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Cold (virus), cold: Medical dictionary
  6. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  7. COLD (chronic obstructive lung disease): Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. COLD: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. cold: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cold, cold, cold: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. COLD: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. COLD: The Home Appliance Page
  4. COLD: Power Engineering

(Note: See colder as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
adjective:  (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
adjective:  (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
adjective:  Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
adjective:  Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
adjective:  Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
adjective:  Completely unprepared; without introduction.
adjective:  Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
adjective:  (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
adjective:  (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
adjective:  (slang) Cool, impressive.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
adjective:  (obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
adjective:  Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
adjective:  Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
adjective:  (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
adjective:  (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
adjective:  (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
adjective:  (informal) Not radioactive.
adjective:  (firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
adjective:  Without electrical power being supplied.
noun:  (uncountable) A condition of low temperature.
noun:  (with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
noun:  (countable, pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) Rheum; sleepy dust.
adverb:  At a low temperature.
adverb:  Without preparation.
adverb:  (slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
noun:  (computing) Acronym of computer output to laser disc.

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