cool
part of speech
adjective (cool, cooler, coolest); verb (cool, cools, cooled, cooling); noun (the cool; keep your cool); interjection (Cool!)
meaning for a pupil
1) A little cold, pleasantly not warm: "a cool breeze". tree →
2) Calm, not upset: "Stay cool." tree →
3) (Informal) Great, fashionable, good: "That's cool!" tree →
4) As a verb, to make or become colder: "Let the cake cool." tree →
5) Not friendly: "a cool reply". tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means the cooler, breezy part of the day, toward evening, when God walks in the garden. In Judges it describes a cool upper room, a pleasant place to escape the heat. Interpretation: Some commentators read "the wind of the day" as the evening breeze, and see the scene as God's presence moving through the garden just as Adam and Eve hide in shame. The cool chamber is where King Eglon was killed by Ehud. In the primary lessons: In science, cooling means losing heat; hot things cool down until they match the room; sweating cools the body. In everyday life: let hot food cool before eating; cool a burn under cool running water for 20 minutes. Slang "cool" means great. Phrases: cool down, cool off, keep your cool, cool it.
examples
- And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden toward the cool of the day; and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. (Torah GEN.3.8, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his cool upper chamber. (Prophets JDG.3.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and, behold, the doors of the upper chamber were locked; and they said: 'Surely he is covering his feet in the cabinet of the cool chamber.' (Prophets JDG.3.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- The evening air is cool. tree →
- Let the soup cool before you eat it. tree →
- Run cool water over a burn. tree →
- Stay cool and don't panic. tree →
- Your new bike is so cool! tree →
- Sweat helps the body cool down. tree →
- It was a cool autumn morning. tree →
- He lost his cool and shouted. tree →
- "To cool my porridge," said the Man. tree →
note
Cool is less cold than cold. For burns, use cool water, not ice. "Cool" as slang is informal; in a school report use "great" or "excellent".
In the corpora
- And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in his cool upper chamber.
- Running chatbots in data centres uses a lot of electricity, and cooling the computers often uses water.
- At parties dancing is about fun, not looking cool, and joining a group is the easiest way in.
- Elephant ears are full of blood vessels, and flapping them cools the blood; African elephants have much bigger ears than Asian elephants.
- Warmer sand gives more girl hatchlings and cooler sand more boys, and bright beach lights can lead hatchlings the wrong way.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cool» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.