freezing

«freezing» in Mova's school dictionary: 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

adjective (freezing); verb form (freeze, freezes, froze, frozen, freezing); noun (freezing, freezing point)

meaning for a pupil

1) Freezing means very cold. tree →

2) As a verb form, freezing means turning from a liquid into a solid because it gets cold, like water turning into ice. tree →

3) Freezing point is the temperature at which a liquid becomes solid. tree →

4) Freezing can mean suddenly stopping still, like when you are scared. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, water freezes at 0 °C (32 °F); below freezing, puddles turn to ice and roads get icy. Freezing is the opposite of melting and is a reversible change. In everyday life, «I'm freezing!» means I'm very cold; wrap up warm, wear a hat and gloves. In safety, freezing weather can cause frostbite and slippery paths. Phrases: freezing cold, below freezing, freezing point, freezing fog.

examples

• It's freezing outside; put on your coat! tree →
• Water starts freezing at zero degrees Celsius. tree →
• The temperature dropped below freezing last night. tree →
• My hands are freezing. tree →
• We are freezing the leftover soup. tree →
• The pond is freezing over. tree →
• She stood freezing to the spot when she saw the snake. tree →
• In freezing weather, watch out for ice on the path. tree →
• Winter one year set in early, and it was freezing hard. tree →

note

Freeze is irregular: freeze, froze, frozen. «Freezing» = very cold, a bit stronger than «cold». In temperature problems, numbers below 0 °C are negative: −5 °C is 5 degrees below freezing.

In the corpora

• Ducks' feet stay just above freezing on ice because warm blood flowing in heats the cold blood coming back.
• The water is freezing; the Mole sinks, comes up spluttering, sinks again — until a firm paw grabs his neck.
• His toes are freezing, and he dreams that his bedclothes have run downstairs to the kitchen fire to get warm.
• Frost forms when water vapour turns straight into ice on a surface below freezing.
• Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing are reversible changes, because the molecules stay the same.

Trees and pragmatics

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