Freeze vs Seize - What's the difference?
freeze | seize |
Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
* 1855 , '', Book XX: ''The Famine ,
* 1913 , '', ''Winter Memories , I,
* 1915 , '', Section II: ''Water ,
To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
* 1888 , '', Rune XXX: ''The Frost-fiend ,
To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
(informal) To be affected by extreme cold.
To become motionless.
* 1916 , , Chapter III,
* 1935 , , Chapter IV,
(figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
* 1898 , , John George Dow (editor), Selections from the poems of Robert Burns , page lviii,
* 1968 , Ronald Victor Sampson, The Psychology of Power , page 134,
* 1988 , Edward Holland Spicer, Kathleen M. Sands, Rosamond B. Spicer, People of Pascua , page 37,
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
* Shakespeare
To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
A period of intensely cold weather.
* 2009 , Pietra Rivoli, The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy , 2nd Edition, page 38,
A halt of a regular operation.
* 1982' October, William Epstein, ''The '''freeze : a hot issue at the United Nations'', in ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ,
* 1983 October 3, ,
* 1985 April 27, ,
(computer) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
(curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
* 2006 , Bob Weeks, Curling for Dummies , page 143,
A block on pay rises.
to deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture
to take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance)
to take possession of (by force, law etc.)
to have a sudden and powerful effect upon
(nautical) to bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line
(obsolete) to fasten, fix
to lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon)
to have a seizure
* 2012 , Daniel M. Avery, Tales of a Country Obstetrician
to bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up
(UK) to submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
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In intransitive terms the difference between freeze and seize
is that freeze is to become motionless while seize is to bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize upIn transitive terms the difference between freeze and seize
is that freeze is to prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets while seize is to have a sudden and powerful effect upon.As a noun freeze
is a period of intensely cold weather.freeze
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fresen, from (etyl) .Verb
- Ever thicker, thicker, thicker / Froze the ice on lake and river,
- He got to Dawson before the river froze , and now I suppose I won't hear any more until spring.
- Running water does not freeze as easily as still water.
- Don't freeze meat twice.
- Freeze' the wizard in his vessel, / ' Freeze to ice the wicked Ahti, ...
- It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh.
- It's freezing in here!
- Don't go outside wearing just a t-shirt; you'll freeze !
- As Tarzan rose upon the body of his kill to scream forth his hideous victory cry into the face of the moon the wind carried to his nostrils something which froze him to statuesque immobility and silence.
- They froze on their knees, their faces turned upward with a ghastly blue hue in the sudden glare of a weird light that burst blindingly up near the lofty roof and then burned with a throbbing glow.
- Over time, he froze towards her, and ceased to react to her friendly advances.
- The other side to this sunny gladness of natural love is his pity for their sufferings when their own mother's heart seems to freeze towards them.
- His friends begin to freeze towards him, the pillars of society cut him publicly, his clients cool off, big business deals no longer come his way, he is increasingly conscious of social ostracism and the puzzled misgivings of his wife.
- If you cheat them, they don't say anything but after that they freeze towards you.
- A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, / That almost freezes up the heat of life.
- The court froze the criminal's bank account
Synonyms
* (become solid) solidifyAntonyms
* (become solid) unfreeze, defrost, liquifyDerived terms
* freeze out * freeze over * freeze upDerived terms
* deep-freeze * deep freeze * freeze-dry * freeze over * freeze solidEtymology 2
See the above verb.Noun
(en noun)- In order to work properly, the cotton stripper required that the plant be brown and brittle, as happened after a freeze , so that the cotton bolls could snap off easily.
- Without a freeze it might be possible to proceed with the production and deployment of such destabilizing systems as the MX, Trident II, cruise missiles and SS-18s, -19s and -20s.
- Critics may oppose the nuclear freeze for what they regard as moral reasons.
- Many of our opponents in Congress are advocating a freeze in Federal spending and an increase in taxes.
- The reason I said the guard wasn't the toughest shot in curling is because, in my book, that's a shot called the freeze'''''. A stone thrown as a '''freeze comes perfectly to rest ''directly in front of another stone, without moving it (see Figure 10-5).
Synonyms
* (computer) (l)Etymology 3
seize
English
Verb
(seiz)- to seize smuggled goods
- to seize a ship after libeling
- a panic seized the crowd
- a fever seized him
- to seize two fish-hooks back to back
- to seize or stop one rope on to another
- to seize on the neck of a horse
- The text which had seized upon his heart with such comfort and strength abode upon him for more than a year.'' (''Southey , Bunyan, p. 21)
- Nearing what she thought was a climax, he started seizing and fell off her. Later, realizing he was dead, she became alarmed and dragged the body to his vehicle to make it look like he had died in his truck.
- Rust caused the engine to seize , never to run again.
