Chilling vs Icing - What's the difference?
chilling | icing |
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 sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting.
(ice hockey) A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this.
The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface.
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As verbs the difference between chilling and icing
is that chilling is present participle of lang=en while icing is present participle of lang=en.As nouns the difference between chilling and icing
is that chilling is the act by which something is chilled while icing is a sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting.As an adjective chilling
is becoming cold.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