Meaning of freeze in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

  Example: The lake froze solid.

• To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.

  Example: Don't freeze meat twice.

• To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.

  Example: It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh.

• To be affected by extreme cold.

  Example: Don't go outside wearing just a t-shirt; you'll freeze!

• (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).

  Example: Since the last update, the program freezes / freezes up after a few minutes of use.

• (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.

  Example: Despite all of the rehearsals, I froze up as soon as I got on stage.

• To cause someone to become motionless.

• To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.

  Example: Over time, he froze towards her, and ceased to react to her friendly advances.

• To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

• To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets

  Example: The court froze the criminal's bank account.

• Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.

noun

• A period of intensely cold weather.

• A halt of a regular operation.

• The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.

• A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.

• A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.

  Example: a hiring freeze; a pay freeze

noun

• A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.

noun

• That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture.

• Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.

• A banner with a series of pictures.

  Example: The classroom had an alphabet frieze that showed an animal for each letter.