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Scorching vs Freezing - What's the difference?

scorching | freezing |

As adjectives the difference between scorching and freezing

is that scorching is very hot while freezing is suffering or causing frost.

As verbs the difference between scorching and freezing

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

As nouns the difference between scorching and freezing

is that scorching is the act or result of something being scorched while freezing is the change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.

scorching

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Very hot.
  • It was a scorching summer, and the ice-cream sellers plied a roaring trade.

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or result of something being scorched.
  • * 1839 , The Lancet (volume 2, page 682)
  • There were several slight scratches and scorchings about the face, sides of the neck and shoulders
  • * 1997 , Larry Dean Olsen, Outdoor Survival Skills (page 76)
  • Green wood hardens after about four or five scorchings in the fire, but several scorchings are required to drive out the sap.

    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