Refrigeration vs Chilling - What's the difference?
refrigeration | chilling |
The process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it.
The process of preserving something by cooling.
(medicine) The cooling of the body for therapeutic purposes.
Becoming cold.
* 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:
Causing cold.
Causing mild fear.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
The act by which something is chilled.
* 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
As nouns the difference between refrigeration and chilling
is that refrigeration is refrigeration while chilling is the act by which something is chilled.As an adjective chilling is
becoming cold.As a verb chilling is
.refrigeration
English
(wikipedia refrigeration)Noun
chilling
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.
- It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it
- Displaying a sturdy professionalism throughout that stops just short of artistry, director Gary Ross, who co-scripted with Collins and Billy Ray, does his strongest work in the early scenes, which set up the stakes with chilling efficiency.
Verb
(head)Derived terms
* bone-chillingNoun
(en noun)- To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires