freeze

«freeze» in Mova's school dictionary: Of a liquid: to become solid ice because it is very cold — 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

verb (freeze, freezes, froze, frozen, freezing); noun (a freeze, freezes)

meaning for a pupil

1) Of a liquid: to become solid ice because it is very cold. tree →

2) To keep food very cold in a freezer so it lasts. tree →

3) To feel very cold: «I'm freezing!». tree →

4) To stop moving suddenly and stay still, often from fear: «Freeze!». tree →

5) Of a computer or screen: to stop working. tree →

6) A noun: a time of very cold weather; or a stop: a price freeze. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science: water freezes at 0 °C (32 °F); freezing is the change from liquid to solid, the opposite of melting; water gets bigger when it freezes, so bottles can crack and pipes burst. In safety: frozen ponds may have thin ice — stay off; frostbite in freezing weather; freeze and back away slowly from some animals. Phrases: freezing point, freezing cold, frozen food, freeze up, freeze to death, brain freeze, play musical statues (freeze).

examples

• Water freezes at zero degrees Celsius. tree →
• We freeze leftover soup to eat later. tree →
• I'm freezing — where's my coat? tree →
• The rabbit froze when it saw the fox. tree →
• My game froze, so I restarted it. tree →
• The pond froze overnight, but the ice is too thin to walk on. tree →
• Ice cream gave me brain freeze. tree →
• Freeze! said the teacher, and everyone stood still. tree →
• ‘My dear child, it is far too cold; you might freeze to death.’ tree →

note

Irregular: freeze, froze, frozen (not «freezed»). Homophone: «frieze» (a pattern on a wall). In maths and science: 0 °C = 32 °F is the freezing point of water; salt water freezes at a lower temperature. Never refreeze defrosted meat without cooking it.

In the corpora

• When you see something upsetting, the body reacts fast: the heart races, the cheeks go hot, you may freeze.
• The North American wood frog can freeze solid in winter, with its heart stopped, and thaw and hop away in spring.
• Mediterranean tortoises hibernate, and owners guided by a vet keep them steady at about 5 degrees so they neither wake early nor freeze.
• In 2020 a Przewalski's horse foal called Kurt was cloned from cells frozen 40 years earlier.
• Picture a city garden at midnight: a fox trots past the bins and somewhere a rabbit freezes, then zigzags away.

Trees and pragmatics

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