Cod vs Cold - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) A small bag or pouch.
(UK, obsolete) A husk or integument; a pod.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke XV:
The scrotum (also in plural).
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , III.4:
(obsolete) A pillow or cushion.
A marine fish of the family Gadidae.
A marine fish resembling a cod of the genus Gadus , such as the .
A joke or an imitation.
A stupid or foolish person.
Having the character of imitation; jocular. (now usually attributive, forming mostly compound adjectives).
(slang, transitive, dialectal) To attempt to deceive or confuse.
(label) Having a low temperature.
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(label) Causing the air to be cold.
(label) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
* 2011 April 23, (Doctor Who), series 6, episode 1, (The Impossible Astronaut):
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Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
Completely unprepared; without introduction.
Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
(label) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
(label) Cornered, done for.
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(label) Not pungent or acrid.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(label) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
(label) Not sensitive; not acute.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm'' and ''hot .
(label) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
A condition of low temperature.
(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
While at low temperature.
Without preparation.
With finality.
As an adjective cold is
(label) having a low temperature.As a noun cold is
a condition of low temperature.As an adverb cold is
while at low temperature.cod
English
(wikipedia cod)Etymology 1
From (etyl) codd, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
- And he wolde fayne have filled his bely with the coddes , that the swyne ate: and noo man gave hym.
- (Mortimer)
- that which we call castoreum are not the same to be termed testicles or stones; for these cods or follicles are found in both sexes, though somewhat more protuberant in the male.
- (Halliwell)
Derived terms
* codpieceEtymology 2
Origin uncertain; perhaps ultimately the same as Etymology 1, above.Noun
Derived terms
* bay cod * codfish * codling * cod liver oil * rock cod * shore codEtymology 3
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)- I assume it all could just be a cod .
- He's making a right cod of himself.
Adjective
(en adjective)- “Illegitimi non carborundum” is a well-known example of cod Latin.
- Dalton categorises Muse's latest composition as “cod -classical bombast”.
Verb
Derived terms
* codswallopcold
English
Adjective
(er)- RIVER SONG (upon seeing the still-living DOCTOR, moments after he made her and two other friends watch what they thought was his death): This is cold'. Even by your standards, this is ' cold .
- cold plants
- What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!
- The jest grows cold when it comes on in a second scene.
- Smell this business with a sense as cold / As is a dead man's nose.
Synonyms
* chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool * (of the weather) (qualifier) brass monkeys, nippy, parky, taters * (of a person or animal) * (unfriendly) aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming * (unprepared) unprepared, unready * See alsoAntonyms
* (having a low temperature) baking, boiling, heated, hot, scorching, searing, torrid, warm * (of the weather) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (of a person or animal) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (unfriendly) amiable, friendly, welcoming * (unprepared) prepared, primed, readyDerived terms
* as cold as charity * as cold as ice, cold as ice * as cold as the grave, cold as the grave * blow hot and cold * brass monkeys * bring someone out in a cold sweat * coldness * cold-blooded * cold call * cold case * cold cash * cold comfort * cold cream * cold cuts * cold-eyed * cold feet/get cold feet * cold fish * cold front * * cold-hearted * cold one * cold-read * cold reading * cold snap * cold start * cold storage * cold store * cold sweat * cold turkey * cold war * cold-weld * come in from the cold * freezing cold * get cold feet * give someone the cold shoulder * in cold blood * in the cold light of day * leave someone cold * leave someone out in the cold * make someone's blood run cold * stone-cold * throw cold water onNoun
(en noun)- Come in, out of the cold .
- I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week.
Synonyms
* (low temperature) coldness * (illness) common cold, coryza, head coldDerived terms
* bitter cold * brass monkey weather * catch cold * catch one's death of cold * cold sore * cold virus * common cold * head coldCoordinate terms
* freeze, frostAdverb
(en adverb)- ''The steel was processed cold .
- The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.
- I knocked him out cold .