cold
US: /ˈkoʊɫd/
UK: /kˈəʊld/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
cold /kould/- tính từ
- lạnh, lạnh lẽo, nguội
- cold water: nước lạnh
- I'm cold: tôi cảm thấy lạnh, tôi lạnh
- cold in death: chết cứng
- cold meat: thịt nguội
- cold shoulder: vai cừu quay để nguội
- phớt lạnh, lạnh lùng, lạnh nhạt, hờ hững, không nhiệt tình
- a cold greeting: sự đón tiếp lạnh nhạt
- a cold look: cái nhìn hờ hững lạnh nhạt
- làm chán nản, làm thất vọng, nhạt nhẽo, không có gì thú vị
- cold news: những tin tức làm chán nản
- cold comfort: lời an ủi nhạt nhẽo
- yếu, khó ngửi thấy (màu, hơi con thú đang bị săn đuổi)
- cold scent: hơi (con thú đang bị săn đuổi) yếu, khó ngửi thấy
- mát (màu sắc)
- cold colours: những màu mát
- in cold blood
- (xem) blood
- to give the cold shoulder to someone
- đối xử lạnh nhạt với ai, hờ hững với ai
- to have somebody cold
- nắm trong tay số phận của ai; bắt ai thế nào cũng phải chịu
- to make someone's blood run cold
- làm cho ai sợ khiếp
- to throw cold water on
- (xem) water
- lạnh, lạnh lẽo, nguội
- danh từ
- sự lạnh nhạt, sự lạnh lẽo
- the cold of winter: sự lạnh lẽo của mùa đông
- sự cảm lạnh
- to catch cold: cảm lạnh, nhiễm lạnh
- cold in the head
- nhức đầu sổ mũi
- cold on the chest
- cảm ho
- to be left out in the cold
- bị bỏ rơi không có ai chăm sóc đến; bị xa lánh; bị đối xử nhạt nhẽo thờ ơ
- to be in the cold
- sống một mình, cô độc hiu quạnh
- sự lạnh nhạt, sự lạnh lẽo
Advanced English dictionary
adjective, noun, adverb+ adjective (colder, coldest)
low temperature
1 having a lower than usual temperature; having a temperature lower than the human body: I'm cold. Turn the heating up. + to feel / look cold + cold hands and feet + a cold room / house + hot and cold water in every room + Isn't it cold today? + It's freezing cold. + to get / turn colder + bitterly cold weather + the coldest May on record + (BrE) The water has gone cold.
food / drink
2 not heated; cooled after being cooked: a cold drink + Hot and cold food is available in the cafeteria. + cold chicken for lunch
unfriendly
3 (of a person) without emotion; unfriendly: to give sb a cold look / stare / welcome + Her manner was cold and distant. + He was staring at her with cold eyes.
light / colours
4 seeming to lack warmth, in an unpleasant way: clear cold light + cold grey skies
route
5 not easy to find: The police followed the robbers to the airport but then the trail went cold.
in games
6 used in children's games to say that the person playing is not close to finding a person or thing, or to guessing the correct answer
unconscious
7 (out ~) [not before noun] (informal) unconscious: He was knocked out cold in the second round.
facts
8 (the ~ facts / truth) facts with nothing added to make them more interesting or pleasant
See also -
Idioms: a cold fish a person who seems unfriendly and without strong emotions
get / have cold feet (informal) to suddenly become nervous about doing sth that you had planned to do: He was going to ask her but he got cold feet and said nothing.
give sb the cold shoulder (informal) to treat sb in an unfriendly way
See also -
in cold blood acting in a way that is deliberately cruel; with no pity: to kill / murder / shoot sb in cold blood
in the cold light of day when you have had time to think calmly about sth; in the morning when things are clearer: These things always look different in the cold light of day.
leave sb cold to fail to affect or interest sb: Most modern art leaves me cold.
pour / throw cold water on sth to give reasons for not being in favour of sth; to criticize sth: She immediately poured cold water on his plans to expand the business.
more at BLOOD, BLOW v., HOT adj.
+ noun
low temperature
1 [U] a lack of heat or warmth; a low temperature, especially in the atmosphere: He shivered with cold. + Don't stand outside in the cold. + She doesn't seem to feel the cold. + You'll catch your death of cold (= used to warn sb they could become very ill if they do not keep warm in cold weather).
illness
2 [C] (also less frequent the common cold [sing.]) a common illness that affects the nose and/or throat, making you cough, SNEEZE, etc: I've got a cold. + a bad / heavy / slight cold + to catch a cold
Idioms: come in from the cold to become accepted or included in a group, etc. after a period of being outside it
leave sb out in the cold to not include sb in a group or an activity
more at CATCH v.
+ adverb
1 (AmE) suddenly and completely: His final request stopped her cold.
2 without preparing: I can't just walk in there cold and give a lesson on the passive!
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 chill, chilly, frosty, icy, keen, nippy, freezing, frigid, ice-cold, stone-cold, bitter, bitter-cold, raw, biting, biting-cold, numbing, gelid; wintry, hibernal, brumal; arctic, glacial, polar, hyperborean or hyperboreal, Siberian:
It was so cold that the canal had completely frozen over.
2 chilly, chilled; unheated, heatless:
The room is cold; we'd better put the heating on.
3 indifferent, apathetic, chilly, chilling, cool, icy, dispassionate, unsympathetic, aloof, unresponsive, spiritless, frigid, unfriendly, uncordial, lukewarm, frigid; cold-blooded, insensitive, uncaring, unemotional, undemonstrative, reserved, unmoved, spiritless, callous, remote, distant, standoffish, unapproachable, stony-hearted, emotionless, unfeeling, cold-hearted:
My ideas received rather a cold reception. Because she had offended him, he was quite cold to her.
4 depressing, cheerless, chilling, gloomy, dispiriting, deadening, disheartening, bleak, dismal, discouraging:
The sweat stood out on his brow in cold apprehension.
5 unmoving, stale, trite, stereotyped; dead:
The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
6 weak, faint, stale, old, dead:
The trail of the tiger had grown cold.
7 unprepared, unready:
She hadn't studied and went into the exam cold.
8 Often, getting cold. far, distant, remote, off the track:
As I searched for the weapon, I felt I was getting cold the further I went from the kitchen.
n.
9 coldness, frigidity, iciness:
Last winter, the cold killed off many of our shrubs.
10 head or chest or common cold, influenza, ague, (la or the) grippe, Technical coryza, gravedo, Colloq sniffles, the flu, bug, sneezles and wheezles:
I caught a cold waiting for you in the rain.
adv.
11 completely, thoroughly, entirely, absolutely, unhesitatingly, promptly, immediately, unreservedly, abruptly:
His application to join the police was turned down cold.
Collocation
1 not hot or warm
VERBS
be, feel, look, seem | become, get, grow, turn
As evening fell it got very cold. The room grew cold. In January it turned very cold.
| make sb/sth
The rain overnight had made the water cold.
| keep sth
Use ice to keep the drinks cold.
ADV.
bitterly, extremely, freezing, ice-, icy, terribly, very
It's bitterly cold outside. There was a freezing cold wind. an ice-cold beer
| fairly, quite, rather
2 not cooked/having become cold after cooking
VERBS
be | get, go
Your dinner's getting cold. I'm afraid the coffee's gone cold.
| eat sth, serve sth
Bake in the oven for twenty minutes. Serve hot or cold.
ADV.
stone
This soup is stone cold!
Concise dictionary
colds|colder|coldestkəʊldnoun
+a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
+the absence of heat
+the sensation produced by low temperatures
adj.
+used of physical coldness; having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
+extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
+having lost freshness through passage of time
+(color) giving no sensation of warmth
+marked by errorless familiarity
+no longer new; uninteresting
+so intense as to be almost uncontrollable
+sexually unresponsive
+without compunction or human feeling
+feeling or showing no enthusiasm
+unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
+of a seeker; far from the object sought
+lacking the warmth of life
