Coldest vs Fridged - What's the difference?
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(cold)
(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.
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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.
(fridge)
(archaic) To rub, chafe.
:* 1761': You might have rumpled and crumpled, and doubled and creased, and fretted and '''fridged the outsides of them all to pieces — Laurence Sterne, ''The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , vol. III (Penguin 2003, p. 145)
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To place inside of a refrigerator.
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* 2013 , Jeffrey Deaver, The October List , Grand Central Publishing (2013), ISBN 9781455576661,
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(label) To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove a female character from a narrative, often strictly to hurt a male character and provide him with a personal motivation for fighting the antagonist(s).
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As an adjective coldest
is (cold).As a verb fridged is
(fridge).coldest
English
Adjective
(head)cold
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 .
Statistics
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* clodSee also
* cool * fresh * lukewarm * tepid 1000 English basic wordsfridged
English
Verb
(head)fridge
English
Etymology 1
Probably imitatory; compare frig .Verb
(fridg)See also
* frigEtymology 2
Abbreviation of refrigerator. The fandom verb sense was coined by (Gail Simone), who criticized a plot point in ''pages 238-239
Alternative forms
* 'fridgeVerb
page 201:
- I had turned up with a bottle, which the hostess, Celia, had duly fridged , but everyone else had opted for camomile tea, making me feel like the biggest lush in south London.
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- He munched and sipped, wished the soda was cold. Should have fridged it.
page 134:
- If you don't have two stones, bake it in two different batches, fridging your remaining doughs whilst you wait.
Welcome to the Punch: A little less conversation", Spark* (University of Reading), Volume 63, Issue 1, 26 April 2013, page 15:
- The backing cast are also all excellent, as expected considering the calibre of actors attached to the film – Andrea Riseborough is a very good example, playing a fascinating cop who really didn't deserve to be 'fridged' (meaning: removed from the action so that the men can do their manly things).
page 240:
- In terms of villains, familiar characters haven't been fridged but they've been rather sexualized.