cooler
part of speech
noun (a cooler, coolers); adjective (cooler — the comparative of cool)
meaning for a pupil
1) Cooler means more cool: a little colder, or (slang) more stylish or exciting. tree →
2) A cooler is a box or bag that keeps food and drinks cold, especially on picnics (also «cool box» in the UK, «esky» in Australia). tree →
3) A cooler is a machine or part that cools something, like a water cooler or a computer fan. tree →
4) (slang, old) The cooler is prison or a cell. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science and weather, «cooler» compares temperatures: cooler in the shade, cooler at night. In everyday talk, «cooler» compares how fashionable things are. On a picnic or a trip to the beach, the cooler holds the drinks. In older films, «put in the cooler» means locked up.
examples
- It is cooler in the shade than in the sun. tree →
- Tomorrow will be cooler, about 15 degrees. tree →
- Pack the sandwiches and juice in the cooler. tree →
- We chatted by the water cooler at the sports centre. tree →
- Your new trainers are way cooler than mine. tree →
- The computer needs a better cooler or it gets too hot. tree →
- In the old film, the gangster spent a night in the cooler. tree →
- At last it began to grow dusk, and the sun sank behind the mountains; gradually it became cooler on the hill, and the grass grew wet with dew. tree →
note
Comparative: cool, cooler, coolest. As a noun it is countable: two coolers. In a maths problem, «5 degrees cooler» means subtract 5 from the temperature. In the UK the box is usually a «cool box» or «cool bag».
In the corpora
- Warmer sand gives more girl hatchlings and cooler sand more boys, and bright beach lights can lead hatchlings the wrong way.
- Theo thought playing in the pitch dark was cooler, like a cinema.
- Water warms up and cools down more slowly than land, so places by the sea have milder winters and cooler summers.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cooler» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.