Definition of chill in English English dictionary
- A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness: close the window or you'll catch a chill
I felt a chill when the wind picked up.
- To smoke marijuana
On Friday night do you wanna chill?.
- To become hard by rapid cooling
- To lower the temperature of something; to cool
Chill before serving.
- A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness
There was a chill in the air.
- To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling
- To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out
Hey, we should chill this weekend.
- Moderately cold or chilly
A chill wind was blowing down the street.
- An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold
His menacing presence cast a chill over everyone.
- Calm, relaxed, easygoing. See also: '''chill out
Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.
- To become cold
In the wind he chilled quickly.
- "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group
That new movie was chill, man.
- To relax, lay back. Also chill out
The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.
- {n} moderate cold, or with dampness and shivering, the fit which precedes the fever
- {a} moderately cold, cold with shivering, forbidding, dull, dejected
- {v} to make cold, deject, depress, blast
- Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc
- {i} cold, frost; shiver, shudder
- To place food in refrigerator until cold but not frozen
- A chill is a mild illness which can give you a slight fever and headache. He caught a chill while performing at a rain-soaked open-air venue
- A moderate but penetrating sense of cold
- Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw
- A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering
- To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold
- a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
- loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"
- To cool food in the refrigerator without freezing
- Metal, graphite or carbon blocks that are incorporated into the mold or core to locally increase the rate of heat removal during solidification and reduce shrinkage defects
- To reduce temperature by putting in refrigerator or over ice
- Chill weather is cold and unpleasant. chill winds, rain and choppy seas. Chill is also a noun. the cold chill of the night
- To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron
- make cool or cooler; "Chill the food"
- Rapid cooling of thin section; causes a very hard and brittle condition; detrimental to machining
- A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly
- {f} cool, make cold; become cold; chill out, relax (Slang)
- Calm, relaxed
- coldness due to a cold environment
- coldness due to a cold environment a sudden numbing dread a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"
- Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting
- lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception
- To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others
- When you chill something or when it chills, you lower its temperature so that it becomes colder but does not freeze. Chill the fruit salad until serving time These doughs can be rolled out while you wait for the pastry to chill. a glass of chilled champagne. warm up
- To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage
- Cool, Hip (Adj) Keenly aware of or knowledgeable about the latest trends or developments, Very fashionable or stylish
- If something sends a chill through you, it gives you a sudden feeling of fear or anxiety. The violence used against the students sent a chill through Indonesia He smiled, an odd, dreamy smile that sent chills up my back. = shiver
- Affected by cold
- depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"
- A sudden numbing fear or dread
- To refrigerate something until cold
- uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather
- An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it
- The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel
- a sudden numbing dread
- 3/98Block-structured telecomm application language from late 1970s
- A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever
- abbr CCITT High Level Language
- an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him"
- When cold weather or something cold chills a person or a place, it makes that person or that place feel very cold. An exposed garden may be chilled by cold winds Wade placed his chilled hands on the radiator and warmed them The boulder sheltered them from the chilling wind
- uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather"
- {s} cool, cold
- To relax, lay back
- chill out
- To hang out; spend time together with another person or group. Also chill
Hey we should chill out together this weekend.
- chill out
- To relax or take time out; to calm down. Also chill
I wish I could chill out about the neighbor's barking dog, but it wakes me up every night.
- chill pill
- : An imaginary medicine taken when excessively anxious or upset about a trivial matter
Take a chill pill, and calm down.
- chill pills
- plural form of chill pill
- chill out
- become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation; "After the fight both men need to cool off "; "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again "
- chill factor
- Wind-chill factor
- chill out
- {f} relax, remain calm, refrain from getting overly excited
- chill out
- To chill out means to relax after you have done something tiring or stressful. After raves, we used to chill out in each others' bedrooms. = relax
- chill out
- become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation; "After the fight both men need to cool off "; "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again "
- chill out ”
- become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation; "After the fight both men need to cool off "; "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again "
- chill pill
- To calm down; relax
- chill-out
- Chill-out places or things are intended to help you relax. some summer chill-out music
- cast a chill
- To provoke an uneasy feeling which stops a conversation, as by an uncalled act or word
the perusal of the letter he had brought from his master cast a chill over things. — Kazimierz Waliszewski, Ivan the Terrible, Part 4, Chapter 2, translated by Lady Mary Loyd.
- chilled
- Cooled
The chilled beer was refreshing on the hot day.
- chilled
- Simple past of chill
- chiller
- Comparative form of chill: more chill
With the setting of the sun a strong breeze, every blast of which was chiller and chiller, had begun to blow, rustling with a low continuous hum . . .
- chilling
- Causing mild fear
It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it.
- chilling
- Becoming cold
As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.
- chilling
- Present participle of chill
- chills
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chill
- chills
- plural form of chill
- take a chill pill
- to relax or calm down
My boss needs to take a chill pill and quit shouting at us.
- wind chill
- A measure of how cold the atmosphere feels, taking not just actual temperature into account, but also wind, which can make the air considerably colder
- chiller
- a cold cabinet or refrigerator for keeping stored food a few degrees above freezing point
- chiller
- short for spine-chiller
- wind chill
- (Meteoroloji) Wind chill (often popularly called the wind chill factor) is the felt air temperature on exposed skin due to wind. The wind chill temperature is never higher than the air temperature, and the windchill is undefined at the higher temps (above 10 °C [50 °F]). Humidity on the skin can result in a higher felt air temperature, which is accurately termed the heat index (or humidex), and is used instead
- wind chill factor
- (Meteoroloji) Wind chill (often popularly called the wind chill factor) is the felt air temperature on exposed skin due to wind. The wind chill temperature is never higher than the air temperature, and the windchill is undefined at the higher temps (above 10 °C [50 °F]). Humidity on the skin can result in a higher felt air temperature, which is accurately termed the heat index (or humidex), and is used instead
- The Big Chill
- 1983 film directed by Lawrence Kasdan (starring Glenn Close, Jeff Goldblum, and Kevin Kline)
- adjective chill 3
- unpleasantly cold
- catch a chill
- become sick with a cold
- chilled
- Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called "blooming
- chilled
- Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel
- chilled
- {s} cold, cooled, frigid, having a cold
- chiller
- Air conditioning system that circulates chilled water to various cooling coils in an installation
- chiller
- A water-cooling device that generally reduces water temperature to approximately 45 degrees Fahrenheit and is used to cool air
- chiller
- A frightening dramatic work, such as a book or film
- chiller
- Device used for the cooling of water for the purpose of space cooling or air conditioning
- chiller
- comparative of chill
- chiller
- Something that chills, especially a machine that produces cold air, either for air conditioning, to prepare chilled foods etc
- chiller
- A unit that recirculates a small volume of refrigerated water through a laser for closed-loop cooling It includes a compressor and thus can perform more cooling than a recirculator/heat exchanger [See Also: Recirculator]
- chiller
- A device which makes aquarium water cooler They generally cost at least several hundred dollars, and home brew solutions involving small refrigerators are seldom successful
- chiller
- (aka Cooler) A device for removing waste heat from the laser, often a water cooler with a pump for circulating water around the gain material and pump
- chiller
- {i} something that cools, refrigerant; thriller, frightening story
- chiller
- excitation that makes your hair stand up or that chills your bones; "the movie was an old-fashioned hair-raiser"
- chiller
- A device that refrigerates dielectric fluid to keep its temperature from rising too high during high power cuts
- chiller
- A piece of equipment used to cool down the water in an aquarium Chillers are available in different types and sizes, including one that hooks up in-line with the water flow of the tank and one that drops into the sump They all feature a thermostat for maintaining a constant temperature Larger tanks require larger chiller units
- chiller
- - a refrigerator
- chiller
- A chiller is a very frightening film or novel. a film or book that is intended to frighten you
- chiller
- Device that removes heat from a gas or liquid stream for air conditioning and cooling
- chilling
- {s} frightening; characterized by causing or being cold
- chilling
- If you describe something as chilling, you mean it is frightening. He described in chilling detail how he attacked her during one of their frequent rows. + chillingly chill·ing·ly since the murder of a London teenager in chillingly similar circumstances in February. something that is chilling makes you feel frightened, especially because it is cruel, violent, or dangerous
- chilling
- tales of murder and revenge
- chilling
- Making chilly or cold; depressing; discouraging; cold; distant; as, a chilling breeze; a chilling manner
- chilling
- the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature
- chilling
- so scary as to cause chills and shudders; "the most terrible and shuddery
- chilling
- so scary as to cause chills and shudders; "the most terrible and shuddery tales of murder and revenge"
- chillingly
- in a chilling manner
- chillingly
- coldly, frigidly, frostily
- chillness
- {i} coolness, coldness
- chillness
- Coolness; coldness; a chill
- chillness
- the state of being chilly
- chills
- third-person singular of chill
- chills
- plural of chill
- chills
- A feeling of being cold, a symptom of many conditions
- cook-chill
- cook-chill foods have already been cooked when you buy them, and are stored at a low temperature, but not frozen
- take a chill pill
- (Slang) relax
- wind chill
- the cooling effect of the wind. Still-air temperature that would have the same cooling effect on exposed skin as a given combination of temperature and wind speed. As the wind speed increases, the wind chill equivalent temperature decreases; e.g., an air temperature of 30 °F (-1.1 °C) with a wind speed of 20 mph (32.2 kph) produces a wind chill of 17 °F (-8 °C). Wind chill is often included in weather reports to describe how cold it feels
- wind chill factor
- {i} index that takes into account the effect of wind on the temperature to provide a reading of the apparent temperature