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Cooling vs Freezing - What's the difference?

cooling | freezing |

As verbs the difference between cooling and freezing

is that cooling is present participle of lang=en while freezing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between cooling and freezing

is that cooling is a decrease in temperature while freezing is the change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.

As adjectives the difference between cooling and freezing

is that cooling is that cools while freezing is suffering or causing frost.

cooling

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • a decrease in temperature
  • refrigeration
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • that cools
  • Derived terms

    * cooling board * cooling curve * cooling-off period * cooling pond * cooling rack * cooling tower

    freezing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (literally) Suffering or causing frost
  • (by extension, chiefly, hyperbole) Very cold
  • Synonyms

    * (literally) frosty * (very cold) ice-cold, icy

    Noun

    (wikipedia freezing)
  • (uncountable, physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
  • * 1829 , James Macauley, The natural, statistical, and civil history of the state of New York
  • Hence, there is a succession of thawings and freezings . The former expand, and endeavour to restore the surface of the ground to its natural condition, while the latter contract and harden it.
  • (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (head)
  • Derived terms

    * freezing point