frozen

«frozen» in Mova's school dictionary: turned into ice or made hard by cold: a frozen lake — 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 (frozen); verb form (past participle of freeze: freeze, freezes, froze, frozen, freezing)

meaning for a pupil

1) Frozen means turned into ice or made hard by cold: a frozen lake. tree →

2) Frozen food is kept very cold in a freezer so it lasts longer. tree →

3) Frozen can mean very cold: my hands are frozen. tree →

4) Frozen can mean not able to move, for example from fear, or a computer that has stopped working. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science, water becomes frozen (solid ice) at 0 °C; freezing is a change of state from liquid to solid, and frozen water expands. In safety lessons never walk or skate on a frozen pond or lake unless adults say the ice is safe; ice can be thin and break. In everyday life frozen peas and ice cream come from the freezer. Phrases: frozen solid, frozen food, frozen with fear, frozen stiff.

examples

• The pond is frozen, but the ice might be too thin to walk on. tree →
• Mum took frozen peas out of the freezer. tree →
• My fingers are frozen; I forgot my gloves. tree →
• She was frozen with fear when she saw the snake. tree →
• Water is frozen at zero degrees Celsius. tree →
• The computer has frozen; I can't click on anything. tree →
• We had frozen yoghurt for dessert. tree →
• The milk bottle cracked because the frozen milk got bigger. tree →

note

Forms of freeze: freeze, froze (past), frozen (after has/had/was). Say «the lake has frozen», not «has froze». Water freezes at 0 °C (32 °F). A bag of frozen peas wrapped in a cloth can help cool a bump; never put ice straight on bare skin for long.

In the corpora

• In 2020 a Przewalski's horse foal called Kurt was cloned from cells frozen 40 years earlier.
• Hard deer hooves grip soil and snow but slip on smooth ice, so real deer avoid frozen ponds where they can.
• Bones, frozen bodies, cave paintings and chewed scraps are the clues that let us picture this lost world.
• Frozen cave lion cubs were found in the ice of Siberia with their fur still on.
• Then «a small sting of frozen sleet on the skin woke them as from a dream».

Trees and pragmatics

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