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▸ 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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