different between chill vs chills

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English chil, chile, from Old English ?iele (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-Germanic *kaliz. Merged with Middle English chele, from Old English c?le (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-Germanic *k?liz, *k?l?? (“coolness; coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold”). Related to German Low German Köle, German Kühle, Danish køle, Swedish kyla, Icelandic kylur. Compare also Dutch kil (“chilly; frosty; frigid”). See also cool, cold.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

chill (countable and uncountable, plural chills)

1. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it..
5. The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.

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6. A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
7. Calmness; equanimity.
8. A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.

Translations

Adjective

chill (comparative more chill, superlative most chill)

1. Moderately cold or chilly.
2. Unwelcoming; not cordial.

3. (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.

4. (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.

   Synonym: cool

5. (slang) Okay, not a problem.

Translations

Verb

chill (third-person singular simple present chills, present participle chilling, simple past and past participle chilled)

1. (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.

2. (intransitive) To become cold.

3. (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
4. (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
5. (intransitive, slang) To relax, lie back.

6. (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.

   Synonym: chill out

7. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.

8. (transitive, figuratively) To discourage, depress.

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Derived terms

References

• chill in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• chill in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 2

From ch- +? will, from ich + will.

Alternative forms

• ch'ill, 'chill

Contraction

chill

1. (West Country, obsolete) I will
   • 1588, anon. or William Byrd, "Though Amaryllis Daunce in Greene"

     Yet since their eyes make hart so sore, hey ho, chill love no more.

   Synonym: I'll

Irish

Noun

chill

1. Lenited form of cill.

Middle English

Etymology

See ch-.

Verb

chill

1. I will

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English chill.

Adjective

chill

1. (slang) cool

Verb

chill

1. imperative of chille

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

chill

1. Lenited form of cill.

Mutation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??lz/

Noun

chills

1. plural of chill

Noun

chills pl (plural only)

1. (medicine) A feeling of being cold, a symptom of many conditions.

Translations

Verb

chills

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of chill