Chilling vs Chill - What's the difference?
chilling | chill |
Becoming cold.
* 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:
Causing cold.
Causing mild fear.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
The act by which something is chilled.
* 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
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.
Chill is a derived term of chilling.
As adjectives the difference between chilling and chill
is that chilling is becoming cold while chill is moderately cold or chilly.As verbs the difference between chilling and chill
is that chilling is present participle of lang=en while chill is to lower the temperature of something; to cool.As nouns the difference between chilling and chill
is that chilling is the act by which something is chilled while chill is a moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.As an abbreviation CHILL is
an acronym for CCITT High Level Language.chilling
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.
- It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it
- Displaying a sturdy professionalism throughout that stops just short of artistry, director Gary Ross, who co-scripted with Collins and Billy Ray, does his strongest work in the early scenes, which set up the stakes with chilling efficiency.
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* bone-chillingNoun
(en noun)- To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires
chill
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?