Freezing vs Glacial - What's the difference?
freezing | glacial |
(literally) Suffering or causing frost
(by extension, chiefly, hyperbole) Very cold
(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
(countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.
of, or relating to glaciers
* We examined the glacial deposits
(figuratively) very slow
* 2010 , "Under the volcano", The Economist , 16 Oct 2010:
cold and icy
* After the rain and frost, the pavements were glacial
having the appearance of ice
* On cold days, glacial acetic acid will freeze in the bottle
cool and unfriendly
* He gave me a glacial stare
As an adjective freezing
is (literally) suffering or causing frost.As a noun freezing
is (uncountable|physics|chemistry) the change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.As a verb freezing
is .As a proper noun glacial is
(geology) of the pleistocene period dominated by the presence of glaciers.freezing
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* (literally) frosty * (very cold) ice-cold, icyNoun
(wikipedia freezing)- 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.
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* freezing pointglacial
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(en adjective)- Progress on judicial reform has been glacial , meeting enormous resistance.