Chill vs Coo - What's the difference?
chill | coo |
A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills , or susceptibility to illness.
An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
Moderately cold or chilly.
* Milton
(slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing. See also : chill out.
(slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
(metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
To become cold.
(metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
(slang) To relax, lie back.
(slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out .
(slang) To smoke marijuana.
The murmuring sound made by a dove or pigeon.
(transitive, or, intransitive) To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon.
* 26 June 2014 , A.A Dowd, AV Club Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler spoof rom-com clichés in They Came Together [http://www.avclub.com/review/paul-rudd-and-amy-poehler-spoof-rom-com-cliches-th-206220]
To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about.
* 2013 , Nicola Cornick, One Night with the Laird (page 206)
Expression of fright, surprise, approval, etc.
* {{quote-book
, year=1960
, author=
, title=(Jeeves in the Offing)
, section=chapter VII
, passage=I stood outside the door for a space, letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would”, as Jeeves tells me cats do in adages, then turned the handle softly, pushed – also softly – and, carrying on into the interior, found myself confronted by a girl in housemaid's costume who put a hand to her throat like somebody in a play and leaped several inches in the direction of the ceiling. “Coo'!” she said, having returned to terra firma and taken aboard a spot of breath. “You gave me a start, sir!” [...] “If you cast an eye on him, you will see that he's asleep now.” “' Coo ! So he is.”}}
* 1988 , Sean Kelly, Professional BMX Simulator'' (video game review in ''Your Sinclair , issue 35, November 1988)
* 1989 , Competitions'' (in ''Sinclair User , issue 92, November 1989)
* 1990 , Crash readers' awards ceremony'' (in ''Crash , issue 75, April 1990)
As an abbreviation chill
is (computing) an acronym for ccitt high level language.As a verb coo is
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English
Noun
(en noun)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A chill wind was blowing down the street.
- Noisome winds, and blasting vapours chill .
- I'm pretty chill most of the time.
- Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.
- That new movie was chill , man.
Verb
(en verb)- Chill before serving.
- In the wind he chilled quickly.
- Chill , man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.
- The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.
- Hey, we should chill this weekend.
- On Friday night do you wanna chill?
Derived terms
* chillax * chilliness * chilling * chilling effect * chill out / chillout * chill pill * chilly * libel chill * send chills / cast a chillReferences
* * ----coo
English
Etymology 1
Of onomatopoetic/imitative origin.Noun
(-)Verb
(en verb)- As Norah Jones coos sweet nothings on the soundtrack, the happy couple—played by Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler—canoodle through a Manhattan montage, making pasta for two, swimming through a pile of autumn leaves, and horsing around at a fruit stand.
- They were too busy cooing over the baby and his parents were too busy cooing over each other.
Derived terms
* cooer * cooinglyEtymology 2
Shortening of cool. Compare foo.Etymology 3
Interjection
(en interjection)- The last track on each of the three sections is a professional course, where you can customise your bike by changing the tyres and the size of chainwheel. Coo !
- We want you to come up with a side splitting caption for a picture drawn by the fair hand of those at System 3. If you turn out to be the Funniest "Person", we'll give you a big wopping model of a dinosaur. Coo .
- Mark: 'Coo', I've only had four gallons of extra caffeine coffee today so I'm not my usual talking-to-PR-girlies-for-hours-on-end self. But bear with me a mo while I get myself together (audience waits for an age while he searches through his coat for the golden envelope). Here it is! ' Coo , and the winner is The New Zealand Story.'