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 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
- 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
- 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.
- Caimans and crocodiles bask with their mouths open to let heat escape and cool down; it is not a threat or a yawn.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cool» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.