different between cold vs automatic

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??ld/, /k??ld/
• (General American) enPR: k?ld, IPA^(key): /ko?ld/
• Homophone: coaled
• Rhymes: -??ld

Etymology 1

From Middle English cold, from Old English, specifically Anglian cald. The West Saxon form, ?eald (“cold”), survived as early Middle English cheald, cheld, or chald. Both descended from Proto-West Germanic *kald, from Proto-Germanic *kaldaz, a participle form of *kalan? (“to be cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

Adjective

cold (comparative colder, superlative coldest)

1. (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
2. (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.

3. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.

4. Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.
   • 2011 April 23, Doctor Who, series 6, episode 1, The Impossible Astronaut:

     RIVER SONG (upon seeing the still-living DOCTOR, moments after he made her and two other friends watch what they thought was his death): This is cold. Even by your standards, this is cold.
5. Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.

6. Completely unprepared; without introduction.

7. Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.

8. (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.

9. (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for.
10. (obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.

    • cold plants

11. (obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
    • 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter

      What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!

    • The jest grows cold […] when it comes on in a second scene.

12. Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.

13. (obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
14. Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.

15. (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
16. (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
17. (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless

    I can't believe she said that...that was cold!

18. (informal) Not radioactive. [from the 20^thc.]
    • 1953, Philip K. Dick, "That's right," Jackson said. "The Old Man will be pleased to welcome you." There was eagerness in his reedy voice. "What do you say? We'll take care of you. Feed you, bring you cold plants and animals. For a week maybe?"”, in Planet for Transients, a short story published in Fantastic Universe magazine: Oct-Nov 1953. Page 64

Synonyms

• (of a thing, having a low temperature): chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool
• (of the weather): (UK, slang) brass monkeys, nippy, parky, taters
• (of a person or animal):
• (unfriendly): aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming
• (unprepared): unprepared, unready
• See also Thesaurus:cold

Antonyms

• (having a low temperature): baking, boiling, heated, hot, scorching, searing, torrid, warm
• (of the weather): hot (See the corresponding synonyms of hot.)
• (of a person or animal): hot (See the corresponding synonyms of hot.)
• (unfriendly): amiable, friendly, welcoming
• (unprepared): prepared, primed, ready
• (not radioactive): hot, radioactive

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English cold, colde, from Old English cald, ?eald (“cold, coldness”), from Proto-Germanic *kald? (“coldness”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”).

Noun

cold (plural colds)

1. A condition of low temperature.

2. (with 'the', figuratively) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.

   The former politician was left out in the cold after his friends deserted him.

3. (medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.

4. (slang) rheum, sleepy dust
   • 1994, Notorious B.I.G., Warning

     Who the fuck is this, pagin' me at 5:46 in the morning? / crack of dawn and now I'm yawnin' / wipe the cold out my eye, see who's this pagin' me and why

   • 1996, Ghostface Killah, All That I Got Is You

     But I remember this, moms would lick her finger tips / to wipe the cold out my eye before school with her spit

Synonyms

• (low temperature): coldness
• (illness): common cold, coryza, head cold, pose

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

• freeze, frost

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English colde, from Old English calde, ?ealde (“coldly”), from the adjective (see above).

Adverb

cold (comparative more cold, superlative most cold)

1. While at low temperature.

   The steel was processed cold.

2. Without preparation.

   The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.

3. With finality.

   I knocked him out cold.

4. (slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
   • 1986, Run-DMC, Peter Piper.

     Now Little Bo Peep cold lost her sheep / And Rip van Winkle fell the hell asleep

References

See also

• cool
• fresh
• lukewarm
• tepid

Anagrams

• clod, loc'd

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cald, cheld, cheald, chald

Etymology

From Old English cald, an Anglian form of ?eald.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??ld/
• (from the form ?eald) IPA^(key): /t???ld/

Adjective

cold (plural and weak singular colde, comparative colder, superlative *coldest)

1. (temperature) cold, cool
2. (weather) cold, cool
3. (locations) having a tendency to be cold
4. cold-feeling, cold when touched, cooled, chilly
5. lifeless, having the pallor of death
6. cold-hearted, indifferent, insensitive
7. distressed, sorrowful, worried
8. (alchemy, medicine) Considered to be alchemically cold

Descendants

• English: cold
• Scots: cald, cauld
• Yola: cole, khoal

References

• “c?ld, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-26.

Noun

cold

1. cold, coldness
2. The feeling of coldness or chill
3. Lack of feelings or emotion
4. (alchemy, medicine) Alchemical coldness

Descendants

• English: cold
• Scots: cald, cauld

References

• “c?ld, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-26.

English

Alternative forms

• automatick

Etymology

From French automatique, from Ancient Greek ????????? (autómaton), neuter of ????????? (autómatos, “self-moving, moving of oneself, self-acting, spontaneous”), from ????? (autós, “self, myself”) + ????? (mémaa, “to wish eagerly, strive, yearn, desire”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t??mæt?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??t??mæt?k/, [?????mæ??k]
• Rhymes: -æt?k

Adjective

automatic (comparative more automatic, superlative most automatic) (superlative dubious)

1. Capable of operating without external control or intervention.

   Antonyms: manual, non-automatic

2. Done out of habit or without conscious thought.

   Synonyms: instinctive, perfunctory, thoughtless

   Antonym: voluntary

3. Necessary, inevitable, prescribed by logic, law, etc.

4. (of a firearm such as a machine gun) Firing continuously as long as the trigger is pressed until ammunition is exhausted.

   Coordinate terms: semi-automatic, burst mode, selective action, bolt action, lever action, (single-round per loading/chambering action) pump action

5. (of a handgun) An autoloader; a semi-automatic or self-loading pistol, as opposed to a revolver or other manually actuated handgun, which fires one shot per pull of the trigger; distinct from machine guns.
6. (computing, of a local variable) Automatically added to and removed from the stack during the course of function calls.
7. (mathematics, of a group) Having one or more finite-state automata

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Albanian: automatik
• ? Malay: automatik

Translations

Noun

automatic (plural automatics)

1. A car with automatic transmission.

   I never learned to drive a stick. I can only drive an automatic.

2. A semi-automatic pistol.

Antonyms

• (car with automatic transmission): stick, stickshift; manual transmission; standard transmission

Translations

See also

(automotive):

• semi-automatic
• manumatic
• manual

Romanian

Etymology

From French automatique

Adjective

automatic m or n (feminine singular automatic?, masculine plural automatici, feminine and neuter plural automatice)

1. automatic

Declension