Chilling vs Compressor - What's the difference?
chilling | compressor |
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 device that produces pressure, such as a gas compressor that produces pressurized gas.
A device that squeezes (compresses).
# An instrument for compressing an artery (especially the femoral artery) or other part.
# An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; a compressorium.
# A machine for compressing gases, especially an air compressor.
(audio) A device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal.
(anatomy) A muscle that compresses certain parts.
(computing) A program or algorithm for compressing data.
As nouns the difference between chilling and compressor
is that chilling is the act by which something is chilled while compressor is a device that produces pressure, such as a gas compressor that produces pressurized gas.As an adjective chilling
is becoming cold.As a verb chilling
is .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