cold
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noun
1 lack of heat; low temperature
ADJECTIVE
▪ biting, bitter, extreme, freezing
▪ winter
VERB + COLD
▪ feel
▪ I don't feel the cold as badly as many people.
▪ keep out
▪ The house has extra insulation to keep out the cold.
▪ be blue with, be numb with
▪ My hands were blue with cold.
PREPOSITION
▪ against the cold
▪ We were well wrapped up against the cold.
▪ out in the cold (often figurative)
▪ He stood out in the cold and waited.
▪ Millions of ordinary workers feel left out in the cold by the shift to digital technology.
2 common illness
ADJECTIVE
▪ bad, heavy (BrE), nasty
▪ She won her match despite suffering from a heavy cold.
▪ mild, slight
▪ common
▪ When will they find a cure for the common cold?
▪ chest, head
VERB + COLD
▪ have, nurse, suffer from
▪ Jim stayed at home because he was nursing a cold.
▪ catch, go down with (BrE)
▪ I must have caught a cold on the bus.
▪ If you stay out in the rain you'll catch cold!
{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} adj.
1 not hot or warm
VERBS
▪ be, feel, look, seem
▪ become, get, go, grow, turn
▪ As evening fell it got very cold.
▪ In January it turned very cold.
▪ remain, stay
▪ make sb/sth
▪ The rain overnight had made the water cold.
▪ keep sth
▪ Use ice to keep the drinks cold.
ADVERB
▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.
▪ bitterly, freezing, terribly
▪ It's bitterly cold outside.
▪ There was a freezing cold wind.
2 not cooked/having become cold after cooking
VERBS
▪ be
▪ get, go
▪ Your dinner's getting cold.
▪ The water has gone cold. (BrE)
▪ The sight of him standing there made her blood go cold. (figurative)
▪ eat sth, serve sth
▪ Bake in the oven for twenty minutes. Serve hot or cold.
ADVERB
▪ stone
▪ This soup is stone cold!
Cold is used with these nouns: ↑
air, ↑
ash, ↑
basement, ↑
bath, ↑
beer, ↑
blood, ↑
breeze, ↑
buffet, ↑
calculation, ↑
cash, ↑
cement, ↑
chicken, ↑
chill, ↑
climate, ↑
coffee, ↑
comfort, ↑
contempt, ↑
country, ↑
current, ↑
cut, ↑
day, ↑
dirt, ↑
dish, ↑
draught, ↑
drink, ↑
earth, ↑
environment, ↑
evening, ↑
eye, ↑
fact, ↑
finger, ↑
flannel, ↑
floor, ↑
food, ↑
fury, ↑
gaze, ↑
gleam, ↑
gloom, ↑
ground, ↑
gust, ↑
ham, ↑
heart, ↑
indifference, ↑
light, ↑
logic, ↑
look, ↑
lunch, ↑
manner, ↑
marble, ↑
mask, ↑
meat, ↑
metal, ↑
milk, ↑
mist, ↑
month, ↑
morning, ↑
night, ↑
ocean, ↑
plunge, ↑
rain, ↑
reality, ↑
reception, ↑
remedy, ↑
room, ↑
salad, ↑
sea, ↑
sensation, ↑
shiver, ↑
shower, ↑
snack, ↑
sore, ↑
soup, ↑
spell, ↑
starter, ↑
storage, ↑
store, ↑
supper, ↑
sweat, ↑
tap, ↑
tea, ↑
temperature, ↑
tone, ↑
voice, ↑
war, ↑
washcloth, ↑
water, ↑
weather, ↑
wind, ↑
winter
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