different between chill vs gelid

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.

Translations

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

Etymology

First attested in 1630. From Latin gelidus (“cold”), from gelu (“frost”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /?d??l.?d/

Adjective

gelid (comparative more gelid, superlative most gelid)

1. Very cold; icy or frosty.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Of Cassandra-Marat we have spoken often; yet the most surprising truth remains to be spoken: that he actually does not want sense; but, with croaking gelid throat, croaks out masses of the truth, on several things.

   • 1898, Florence Earle Coates, Siberia

     Above the gelid source of mountain springs,
     ?A solitary eagle, circling, flies.

   • 2005, Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams:

     In the worst of summer the tower remained cool, yet the air seemed feverish and gelid when sisters of different Ajahs came too close.

Derived terms

• gelidity / gelidness
• gelidly

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• glide, lidge, liged

Dutch

Etymology

From ge- +? lid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l?t/
• Hyphenation: ge?lid
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

gelid n (plural gelederen)

1. row of a formation, battle line
2. an organizational rank, especially a military rank

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gelid

Noun

gelid n (plural geleden)

1. a joint, a point of articulation

Anagrams

• gilde, ledig

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *g?eleti (“to graze”), of uncertain origin; perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *g?lew-, extension from *g?el- (“throat”), which could be imitative. See also Old English ceole, German Kehle, Proto-Slavic *gl?tati (“to devour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e.l??ð/

Verb

gelid (conjunct ·geil, verbal noun gelt)

1. to graze, consume
   • c. 700, De Origine Scoticae Linguae from the Yellow Book of Lecan, O'Mulc. 830

   • c. 800, Immacaldam Choluim Cille ? ind óclaig, published in "The Lough Foyle Colloquy Texts: Immacaldam Choluim Chille 7 ind Óclaig oc Carraic Eolairg and Immacaldam in Druad Brain 7 Inna Ban?átho Febuil Ós Loch ?ebuil", Ériu 52 (2002), pp. 53-87, edited and with translations by John Carey,

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 80^a11

   • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 143^b1

Inflection

Derived terms

• con·geil
• fo·geil

References

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “gelid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language