{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "koʊld" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (RP)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (London)", "url": "" }, { "lang": "Audio (GA)", "url": "" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English cold, from Old English, specifically Anglian cald. The West Saxon form, ċeald (“cold”), survived as early Middle English cheald, cheld, or chald. Both descended from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz, a participle form of *kalaną (“to be cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).\n\n\nCognates\n\nCognate with Scots cald, cauld (“cold”), Saterland Frisian koold (“cold”), West Frisian kâld (“cold”), Dutch koud (“cold”), Low German kold, koolt, koold (“cold”), German kalt (“cold”), Danish kold (“cold”), Norwegian kald (“cold”), Swedish kall (“cold”).", "From Middle English cold, colde, from Old English cald, ċeald (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldą (“coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).\n\n\nCognates\n\nCompare Saterland Frisian Keelde (“cold”), West Frisian kjeld (“cold”), Dutch koude (“cold”), German Low German Kolle, Koll (“cold”), German Kälte (“cold”), Danish kulde (“cold”), Swedish köld (“cold”), Norwegian kulde (“cold”), Icelandic kuldi (“cold”).", "From Middle English colde, from Old English calde, ċealde (“coldly”), from the adjective (see above)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(of a thing) Having a low temperature.\nA cold wind whistled through the trees." }, { "mean": "(of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.\nThe forecast is that it will be very cold today." }, { "mean": "(of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.\nShe was so cold she was shivering." }, { "mean": "Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.\nShe shot me a cold glance before turning her back." }, { "mean": "Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.\nLet's look at this tomorrow with a cold head.\nHe's a nice guy, but the cold facts say we should fire him.\nThe cold truth is that states rarely undertake military action unless their national interests are at stake." }, { "mean": "Completely unprepared; without introduction.\nHe was assigned cold calls for the first three months." }, { "mean": "Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.\nI knocked him out cold.\nAfter one more beer he passed out cold." }, { "mean": "(usually with \"have\" or \"know\" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.\nPractice your music scales until you know them cold.\nTry both these maneuvers until you have them cold and can do them in the dark without thinking.\nRehearse your lines until you have them down cold.\nKeep that list in front of you, or memorize it cold." }, { "mean": "(usually with \"have\" transitively) Cornered; done for.\nWith that receipt, we have them cold for fraud.\nCriminal interrogation. Initially they will dream up explanations faster than you could ever do so, but when they become fatigued, often they will acknowledge that you have them cold." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Not pungent or acrid." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting." }, { "mean": "Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.\na cold scent" }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute." }, { "mean": "Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.\nYou're cold … getting warmer … hot! You've found it!" }, { "mean": "(painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour." }, { "mean": "(databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage." }, { "mean": "(informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.\nI can't believe she said that...that was cold!" }, { "mean": "(informal) Not radioactive." }, { "mean": "(firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition." }, { "mean": "Without electrical power being supplied.\nSynonym: dead" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A condition of low temperature.\nCome in, out of the cold." }, { "mean": "(with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.\nThe former politician was left out in the cold after his friends deserted him." }, { "mean": "(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.\nI caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week" }, { "mean": "(slang) rheum, sleepy dust" } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "At a low temperature.\nThe steel was processed cold." }, { "mean": "Without preparation.\nThe speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.\n2008, Geddeth Smith, Walter Hampden: Dean of the American Theatre (page 104)\nTwo weeks after it closed, he started rehearsals for Cheer Up, a new play by Mary Roberts Rinehart booked into the Harris Theatre. It was to open cold without any out-of-town tryout under the direction of a young Cecil B. DeMille" }, { "mean": "(slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.\n1986, Run-DMC, Peter Piper.\nNow Little Bo Peep cold lost her sheep / And Rip van Winkle fell the hell asleep" } ] }, { "name": "Derived_terms_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "cold urticaria (cold allergy)\ncut someone cold\ndown cold\nout cold\nparoxysmal cold hemoglobinuria" } ] }, { "name": "See_also", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "cool\nfresh\nlukewarm\ntepid" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "파생_항_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "참고_참고", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(of a thing, having a low temperature): chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool", "(of the weather): (UK, slang) brass monkeys, nippy, parky, taters", "(of a person or animal):", "(unfriendly): aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming", "(unprepared): unprepared, unready", "See also Thesaurus:cold" ], "kor": [ "", "", "", "", "", "" ] } } }