freezing

freezing
    n 1: the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to
         a solid [syn: {freeze}, {freezing}]
    

Freeze \Freeze\, v. i. [imp. {Froze} (fr[=o]z); p. p. {Frozen}
   (fr[=o]"z'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Freezing}.] [OE. fresen,
   freosen, AS. fre['o]san; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G.
   frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius
   cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient,
   cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushv[=a]
   ice, prush to spirt. ? 18. Cf. {Frost}.]
   1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid
      to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be
      hardened into ice or a like solid body.
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   Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] above zero by Fahrenheit's
         thermometer; mercury freezes at 40[deg] below zero.
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   2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer
      loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood
      freezes in the veins.
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   {To freeze up} (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor.
      [Colloq.]
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Freezing \Freez"ing\, a.
   Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in
   manner. -- {Frrez"ing*ly}, adv.
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   {Freezing machine}. See {Ice machine}, under {Ice}.

   {Freezing mixture}, a mixture (of salt and snow or of
      chemical salts) for producing intense cold.

   {Freezing point}, that degree of a thermometer at which a
      fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water,
      whose freezing point is at 32[deg] Fahr., and at 0[deg]
      Centigrade.
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124 Moby Thesaurus words for "freezing":
      Siberian, adiabatic absorption, adiabatic demagnetization,
      adiabatic expansion, air conditioning, air cooling, algid, algific,
      anhydration, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold,
      blast freezing, blast-freezing, bleak, boreal, bottling, brining,
      brisk, brumal, canning, chill, chilling, chilly, cold,
      cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble,
      congealing, congealment, congelation, cooling, corning, crisp,
      cryogenics, curing, cutting, deep freezing, dehydration,
      dehydrofreezing, desiccation, dry-curing, drying,
      electric refrigeration, embalming, evaporation, food freezing,
      freezable, freeze-drying, freezing cold, frigid, frigorific,
      frosty, frozen, fuming, gas refrigeration, gelid, glaciable,
      glacial, glaciation, glacification, hibernal, hiemal, hyperboreal,
      hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement,
      infrigidation, irradiation, jerking, keen, marination,
      mechanical refrigeration, mummification, nipping, nippy, numbing,
      penetrating, perishing, pickling, piercing, pinching, polar,
      potting, quick freezing, quick-freezing, raw,
      reduction of temperature, refreezing, refrigerant, refrigeration,
      refrigerative, refrigeratory, regelation, rigorous, salting,
      seasoning, severe, sharp, sharp freezing, sharp-freezing,
      shivering, shivery, sleety, slushy, smoking, snappy, stone-cold,
      stuffing, subzero, super-cooling, supercooled, taxidermy, tinning,
      winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry