Freeze
41freeze — /fri:z/ noun ♦ a freeze on wages and prices period when wages and prices are not allowed to be increased ■ verb to keep something such as money or costs at their present level and not allow them to rise ● to freeze wages and prices ● to freeze… …
42freeze — (or freeze frame) an optical printing effect in which a single frame image is identically repeated, reprinted or replicated over several frames; when projected, a freeze frame gives the illusion of a still photograph in which the action has… …
43freeze — 1. n. the act of ignoring someone; the cold shoulder. □ Everybody seems to be giving me the freeze. □ I got the freeze from Julie. What did I do wrong? 2. tv. to ignore someone; to give someone the cold shoulder. □ Don’t freeze me, gang! I use a… …
44freeze — 1. noun /ˈfriːz/ a) A period of intensely cold weather. In order to work properly, the cotton stripper required that the plant be brown and brittle, as happened after a freeze, so that the cotton bolls could snap off easily. b) A precise draw… …
45freeze — verb (past froze; past participle frozen) 1》 (with reference to a liquid) turn or be turned into ice or another solid as a result of extreme cold. ↘become or cause to become blocked or rigid with ice. 2》 be or cause to be very cold.… …
46freeze — /fri:z/ verb to keep something such as money or costs at their present level and not allow them to rise ● to freeze wages and prices ● to freeze credits ● to freeze company dividends ● We have frozen expenditure at last year’s level. (NOTE:… …
47freeze-up — /freez up /, n. Informal. 1. a freezing over of a body of water in an area. 2. a period of below freezing temperatures. 3. the condition of being immobilized or inoperative through freezing: car engine freeze up in winter. [1875 80, Amer.; n. use …
48freeze — [OE] Freeze is an ancient word, which traces its history back to Indo European *preus (source also of Latin pruīna ‘hoarfrost’). Its Germanic descendant was *freusan, from which come German frieren, Dutch vriezen, Swedish frysa, and English… …
49freeze up — PHR V ERG If something freezes up or if something freezes it up, it becomes completely covered or blocked with ice. [V P] ...lavatories that often freeze up in winter... [V P n (not pron)] Ice could freeze up their torpedo release mechanisms.… …
50freeze-up — when the lakes and ground freeze (November) We want to dig the hole for the basement before freeze up …
