Chiller vs Horror - What's the difference?
chiller | horror |
Something that chills, especially a machine that produces cold air, either for air conditioning, to prepare chilled foods etc.
A frightening dramatic work, such as a book or film
(chill)
* 1844 Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.
An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 A genre of fiction, meant to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
* {{quote-news
, year = 1898
, date = July 3
, newspaper = Philadelphia Inquirer
, page = 22
, passage = The Home Magazine for July (Binghamton and New York) contains ‘The Patriots' War Chant,’ a poem by Douglas Malloch; ‘The Story of the War,’ by Theodore Waters; ‘A Horseman in the Sky,’ by Ambrose Bierce, with a portrait of Mr. Bierce, whose tales of horror are horrible of themselves, not as war is horrible; ‘A Yankee Hero,’ by W. L. Calver; ‘The Warfare of the Future,’ by Louis Seemuller; ‘Florence Nightingale,’ by Susan E. Dickenson, with two rare portraits, etc.
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* {{quote-news
, year = 1917
, date = February 11
, newspaper = New York Times
, section = Book reviews
, page = 52
, passage = Those who enjoy horror , stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’
}}
* 1947 , re-release poster, tagline:
(informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; this sense can also be spoken or written as the horrors .
As nouns the difference between chiller and horror
is that chiller is something that chills, especially a machine that produces cold air, either for air conditioning, to prepare chilled foods etc while horror is an intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.As an adjective chiller
is comparative of chill.chiller
English
Noun
(wikipedia chiller) (en noun)Quotations
* 2002 Robert C. Summers, Lawrence J. Dyckman - Food Safety *: Carcasses are then trimmed, rinsed, and, as the final step of the slaughter line, placed into a chiller . * 1991 Michael R. Pitts - Famous Movie Detectives II *: Variety termed the film "a fairly suspenseful low-budget chiller ."Adjective
(head)- With the setting of the sun a strong breeze, every blast of which was chiller' and ' chiller , had begun to blow, rustling with a low continuous hum . . .
horror
English
Alternative forms
* horrourNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […]”}}
- A Nightmare of Horror !