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Gripe vs Cold - What's the difference?

gripe | cold |

As nouns the difference between gripe and cold

is that gripe is a complaint; a petty concern while cold is a condition of low temperature.

As a verb gripe

is (obsolete|intransitive) to make a grab (to'', ''towards'', ''at'' or ''upon something).

As an adjective cold is

(label) having a low temperature.

As an adverb cold is

while at low temperature.

gripe

English

Verb

(grip)
  • (obsolete) To make a grab (to'', ''towards'', ''at'' or ''upon something).
  • (archaic) To seize, grasp.
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
  • Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure?
  • To complain; to whine.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 29 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992) citation , page= , passage=In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.}}
  • To suffer griping pains.
  • (John Locke)
  • (nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm.
  • (obsolete) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances.
  • * Shakespeare
  • How inly sorrow gripes his soul.

    Synonyms

    * (complain) bitch, complain, whine

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A complaint; a petty concern.
  • (nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
  • (obsolete) grasp; clutch; grip
  • * Shakespeare
  • A barren sceptre in my gripe .
  • (obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
  • the gripe of a sword
  • (engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
  • Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress.
  • the gripe of poverty
  • (chiefly, in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
  • (nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
  • (nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind.
  • (nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted.
  • (obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus ; the griffin.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Like a white hind under the gripe's sharp claws.
    (Webster 1913)

    Derived terms

    * gripe water ----

    cold

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (label) Having a low temperature.
  • *
  • (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):
  • 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 .
  • *
  • 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.
  • *
  • (label) Not pungent or acrid.
  • * (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • cold plants
  • (label) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
  • * (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
  • What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!
  • * (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
  • The jest grows cold when it comes on in a second scene.
  • Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
  • (label) Not sensitive; not acute.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Smell this business with a sense as cold / As is a dead man's nose.
  • 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.
  • 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 also

    Antonyms

    * (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, ready

    Derived 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 on

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A condition of low temperature.
  • Come in, out of the cold .
  • (medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
  • I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week.

    Synonyms

    * (low temperature) coldness * (illness) common cold, coryza, head cold

    Derived terms

    * bitter cold * brass monkey weather * catch cold * catch one's death of cold * cold sore * cold virus * common cold * head cold

    Coordinate terms

    * freeze, frost

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • While at low temperature.
  • ''The steel was processed cold .
  • Without preparation.
  • The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.
  • With finality.
  • I knocked him out cold .

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

    * clod

    See also

    * cool * fresh * lukewarm * tepid 1000 English basic words