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 Definitions for chill: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
: Chill \Chill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chilled (ch[i^]ld); p. pr.
& vb. n. Chilling.]
1. To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to
shiver; to affect with cold.
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When winter chilled the day. --Goldsmith.
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2. To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress;
to discourage.
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Every thought on God chills the gayety of his
spirits. --Rogers.
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3. (Metal.) To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of
crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to
increase the hardness; said of cast iron.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
: Chill \Chill\ (ch[i^]l), n. [AS. cele, cyle, from the same root
as celan, calan, to be cold; akin to D. kil cold, coldness,
Sw. kyla to chill, and E. cool. See Cold, and cf. Cool.]
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1. A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable
sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. "[A]
wintry chill." --W. Irving.
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2. (Med.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the
body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by
undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or
forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance,
as of a fever.
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3. A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling;
discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
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4. An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool
rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron
brought in contact with it. --Raymond.
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5. The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car
wheel. --Knight.
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Chill and fever, fever and ague.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
: Chill \Chill\, v. i. (Metal.)
To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while
solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater
depth than others.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
: Chill \Chill\, a.
1. Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
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Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill. --Milton.
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2. Affected by cold. "My veins are chill." --Shak.
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3. Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.;
lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill
reception.
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4. Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
: chill
adj : uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather" [syn: chilly]
n 1: coldness due to a cold environment [syn: iciness, gelidity]
2: an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of
surprise shot through him" [syn: frisson, shiver, quiver,
shudder, thrill, tingle]
3: a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an
infection and the development of a fever [syn: shivering]
4: a sudden numbing dread [syn: pall]
v 1: depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender
chilled the soldiers"
2: make cool or cooler; "Chill the food" [syn: cool, {cool
down}] [ant: heat]
3: loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the
thunderstorm" [syn: cool, cool down] [ant: heat]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
: 361 Moby Thesaurus words for "chill":
Laodiceanism, abscess, absolute zero, abstracted, ache, aching,
affectless, ague, air-condition, air-cool, algidity, aloof,
aloofness, anemia, anesthesia, anesthetized, ankylosis, anoxia,
apnea, arctic, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, autism,
autistic, backache, be cold, benumb, benumbed, bite, bitterness,
bleakness, bleeding, blennorhea, blunt, bracing, briskness,
cachexia, cachexy, catatonia, catatonic, chatter, chilblains,
chilliness, chilling, chills, chilly, cold, cold as charity,
cold blood, cold creeps, cold heart, cold shivers, cold water,
cold-blooded, coldhearted, coldheartedness, coldness, colic,
constipation, convulsion, cool, coolish, coolness, coolth, coryza,
coughing, creeps, crispness, cryogenics, cryology, cryopathy, cut,
cyanosis, damp, dampen, damper, deadpan, decrease in temperature,
deflect, deject, demoralize, depress, detachment, deter, determent,
deterrent, diarrhea, didder, disaccordant, disaffect, disaffinity,
discourage, discouragement, dishearten, disincline, disinterest,
disinterested, disparage, dispassion, dispassionate,
dispassionateness, dispirit, distance, distant, distract, distress,
dither, dithers, divert, dizziness, dropsy, drugged, duck bumps,
dull, dullness, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation,
emotional deadness, emotionally dead, emotionless, emotionlessness,
enmity, fainting, fatigue, fervorlessness, fever, fibrillation,
flu, flux, formal, freeze, freeze to death, freezing,
freezing point, fresh, freshen, freshness, frigid, frigidity,
frost, frostbite, frosted, frostiness, frosty, frozen, gelid,
gelidity, glacial, go through, goose bumps, goose pimples,
gooseflesh, grow cold, growth, halfheartedness, have a chill,
have goose pimples, heartless, heartlessness, hemorrhage,
high blood pressure, horripilate, horripilation, hostility,
hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, ice, ice-cool, iciness,
icterus, icy, immovability, immovable, impassibility, impassive,
impassiveness, impassivity, inaccessibility, inclemency,
incompatibility, incompatible, incompatibleness, indifference,
indifferent, indifferentism, indifferentness, indigestion,
indispose, inexcitability, inexcitable, inflammation, influenza,
infrigidate, inhospitable, inhospitality, inimical, inimicality,
insensitive, insipidity, insomnia, insusceptible, intense cold,
invigorating, itching, jaundice, keenness, kibe, la grippe,
labored breathing, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of touch,
lose heat, low blood pressure, low temperature, lukewarmness,
lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, neuterness,
neutrality, neutralness, nip, nippiness, nippy, nonemotional, numb,
numbed, numbing, objective, objectivity, obtuse, obtuseness,
offishness, out of touch, pain, paralysis, passionless,
passionlessness, penetrate, penetrating, perfunctoriness,
perish with cold, personal conflict, pierce, poker face, polar,
pruritus, put off, quake, quench, quiver, rash, raw, rawness,
refresh, refrigerate, remoteness, repel, reserved, rheum, rigor,
sclerosis, seizure, self-absorbed, self-absorption, severity,
shake, sharp air, sharpness, shiver, shivering, shivers, shock,
shudder, skin eruption, sneezing, solitary, sore, soulless,
soullessness, spasm, spiritless, spiritlessness, standoffish,
standoffishness, stimulating, straight face, strain, strained,
tabes, tachycardia, temperate, tense, tension, tepidness,
the sniffles, tremble, tumor, turn aside, turn away, turn from,
turn off, unaffectionate, unamiability, unamiable, unamicable,
unapproachability, uncompanionable, uncordial, uncordiality,
unemotional, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unfeeling,
unfeelingness, unfriendliness, unfriendly, ungenial, ungeniality,
unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressibility, unimpressionable,
unimpressionableness, uninterested, unloving, unpassionate,
unpassionateness, unresponding, unresponsive, unresponsiveness,
unsociability, unsociable, unsusceptibility, unsusceptible,
unsympathetic, unsympatheticness, untouchability, untouchable,
upset stomach, vapidity, ventilate, vertigo, vomiting, wasting,
wean from, wet blanket, wintry, withdrawal, withdrawn,
withdrawnness, zeallessness
Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
: CHILL
CCITT HIgh Level programming Language (CCITT)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
: CHILL
{CCITT HIgh-Level Language}
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