cold

«cold» in Mova's school dictionary: Having a low temperature; not warm: "cold water" — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (cold, colder, coldest); noun (a cold, colds; the cold)

meaning for a pupil

1) Having a low temperature; not warm: "cold water". tree →

2) Feeling that your body is not warm enough: "I'm cold." tree →

3) An illness that gives you a runny nose, sneezes and a sore throat. tree →

4) Not friendly or kind: "a cold look". tree →

5) "The cold" means cold weather. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, cold means low temperature: ice is cold, things cool down when heat leaves them; water freezes at 0 °C. In health: a cold is caused by germs (viruses), spread by sneezes and touch; wash hands. In safety: dress warmly in cold weather. Phrases: catch a cold, cold weather, ice-cold, out in the cold, cold-blooded.

examples

• It is cold outside, so wear a coat. tree →
• I caught a cold and stayed home. tree →
• The milk is in the cold fridge. tree →
• Cold air sinks and warm air rises. tree →
• Cover your mouth when you sneeze with a cold. tree →
• Water turns to ice when it gets very cold. tree →
• She gave me a cold look. tree →
• Snakes are cold-blooded animals. tree →
• Oh, how cold the water is! tree →

note

"A cold" (illness) is countable; "the cold" (weather) is not. Myth: going out with wet hair does not give you a cold; germs do. Cold is not a thing that flows in — heat flows out. Comparatives: colder, coldest. Lower temperature numbers mean colder.

In the corpora

• Not every illness needs medicine: a cold gets better on its own.
• Antibiotics kill bacteria but do nothing against colds, which are caused by viruses.
• Scene: at Christmas dinner in Leeds, Grandad and Auntie Jo argue about the government until the gravy goes cold.
• The coldest temperature ever measured at a weather station was about minus 89 degrees Celsius, at Vostok Station in Antarctica in 1983.
• Bumblebees warm up by shivering their flight muscles, so they can fly on cold spring mornings when honeybees cannot.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cold» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.