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cold
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)
- (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
- (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
- (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
- 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.
- 2011 April 23, Doctor Who, series 6, episode 1, The Impossible Astronaut:
- Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.
- Completely unprepared; without introduction.
- Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
- (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.
- (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered, done for.
- (obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
- cold plants
- (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.
- 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter
- Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
- (obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
- Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
- (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
- (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
- (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless
- I can't believe she said that...that was cold!
- (informal) Not radioactive. [from the 20thc.]
- 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)
- A condition of low temperature.
- (with 'the', figuratively) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
- The former politician was left out in the cold after his friends deserted him.
- (medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
- (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
- 1994, Notorious B.I.G., Warning
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)
- While at low temperature.
- The steel was processed cold.
- Without preparation.
- The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.
- With finality.
- I knocked him out cold.
- (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
- 1986, Run-DMC, Peter Piper.
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)
- (temperature) cold, cool
- (weather) cold, cool
- (locations) having a tendency to be cold
- cold-feeling, cold when touched, cooled, chilly
- lifeless, having the pallor of death
- cold-hearted, indifferent, insensitive
- distressed, sorrowful, worried
- (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
- cold, coldness
- The feeling of coldness or chill
- Lack of feelings or emotion
- (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.
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game
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: g?m, IPA(key): /?e?m/
- Rhymes: -e?m
Etymology 1
From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gaman? (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”); or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”).
Cognate with Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandic gaman (“fun”). Related to gammon, gamble.
Noun
game (countable and uncountable, plural games)
- A playful or competitive activity.
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
- (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- 1983, Lawrence Lasker & al., WarGames:
- Joshua: Shall we play a game?
David: ... Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?
Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?
David: Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
Joshua: Fine.
- Joshua: Shall we play a game?
- 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 37:
- From time to time, track-suited boys ran past them, with all the deadly purpose and humourless concentration of those who enjoyed Games.
- 1983, Lawrence Lasker & al., WarGames:
- (countable) A particular instance of playing a game; match.
- “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
- (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
- 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, chapter 11:
- I played golf with her that same afternoon. She lost eight balls, I remember. Eight. I had a terrible time getting her to at least open her eyes when she took a swing at the ball. I improved her game immensely, though.
- 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, chapter 11:
- (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
- (countable) A video game.
- Hypernym: title
- (countable, informal, nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game’s afoot!
- “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
- (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
- (uncountable, informal, used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
- 1998, Nate Dogg, She's Strange (song)
- She's strange, so strange, but I didn't complain. She said yes to me when I ran my game.
- 1998, Nate Dogg, She's Strange (song)
- (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
- (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.
- Your murderous game is nearly up.
- It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:game
- (synonyms to be checked): pastime, play, recreation, frolic, sport, diversion, fun, amusement, merriment, festivity, entertainment, spree, prank, lark, gambol, merrymaking, gaiety
- (instance of gameplay): match
- (field of gainful activity): line
- (military): wargame
- (business or occupation): racket
- (questionable practices): racket
Antonyms
- (antonyms to be checked): drudgery, work, toil
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Dutch: gamen, game
- ? Japanese: ???
- ? Norman: gamme
- ? Norwegian: gamen, game
- ? Portuguese: game
- ? Spanish: game
- ? Welsh: gêm
Translations
Adjective
game (comparative gamer, superlative gamest)
- (colloquial) Willing to participate.
- (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
- Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
Synonyms
- (willing to participate): sporting, willing, daring, disposed, favorable, nervy, courageous, valiant
Antonyms
- (willing to participate): cautious, disinclined
Translations
Verb
game (third-person singular simple present games, present participle gaming, simple past and past participle gamed)
- (intransitive) To gamble.
- (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
- (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
- We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.
- (transitive, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
- 2005, "Picking up the pieces", The Economist, 6 October 2005:
- Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himself gaming her, and she gives him her phone number.
- 2010, Mystery, The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction, Villard Books (2010), ?ISBN, page 100:
- A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him.
- 2010, Sheila McClear, "Would you date a pickup artist?", New York Post, 9 July 2010:
- How did Amanda know she wasn’t getting gamed? Well, she didn’t. “I would wonder, ‘Is he saying stuff to other girls that he says to me?’ We did everything we could to cut it off . . . yet we somehow couldn’t.”
- 2005, "Picking up the pieces", The Economist, 6 October 2005:
Derived terms
- game the system
- gamer
Translations
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective
game (comparative more game, superlative most game)
- Injured, lame (of a limb).
- around 1900, O. Henry, Lost on Dress Parade
- You come with me and we'll have a cozy dinner and a pleasant talk together, and by that time your game ankle will carry you home very nicely, I am sure."
- around 1900, O. Henry, Lost on Dress Parade
See also
- game on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- MEGA, Mega, mage, mega, mega-
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?m/
- Hyphenation: game
- Rhymes: -e?m
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English game.
Noun
game m (plural games, diminutive gamepje n)
- A video game, an electronic game.
- Synonyms: videogame, videospel
Hyponyms
- computerspel
Related terms
- gamen
- gamer
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
game
- first-person singular present indicative of gamen
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of gamen
- imperative of gamen
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English gamen, gomen; from Proto-Germanic *gaman?, of disputed origin.
Alternative forms
- gamen, gemen, gomen, gome, gammen, gaume, gamme, gamin, gomin, gomyn, gomun, gam, geme
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?m(?)/, /??am(?)/, /??a?m?n/, /??am?n/
- (from OE gomen) IPA(key): /????m(?)/, /????m?n/
- (Kent) IPA(key): /????m(?)/, /????m?n/
Noun
game (plural games or game)
- Entertainment or an instance of it; that which is enjoyable:
- A sport or other outdoor or physical activity.
- A game; a codified (and often competitive) form of entertainment.
- Sexual or romantic entertainment or activity (including intercourse in itself).
- An amusing, joking, or humorous activity or event.
- Any kind of event or occurrence; something that happens:
- An endeavour; a set of actions towards a goal.
- Any kind of activity having competition or rivalry.
- The state of being happy or joyful.
- Game; wild animals hunted for food.
- (rare) One's quarry; that which one is trying to catch.
- (rare) Gamesmanship; gaming behaviour.
- (rare) The reward for winning a game.
Derived terms
- gameful
- gamely
- gamen
Descendants
- English: game, gammon (dialectal gam) (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: gemme, gem, gyem
- Yola: gaame, gaaume
References
- “g?me, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-07-09.
Etymology 2
From Old English gæmnian, gamnian, gamenian.
Verb
game
- Alternative form of gamen
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English game.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /??ejm/, /??ej.mi/
Noun
game m (plural games)
- (Brazil, slang) electronic game (game played on an electronic device, such as a computer game, a video game or the like)
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:game.
See also
- jogo
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /???.mi/
Verb
game
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of gamar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of gamar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of gamar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of gamar
Spanish
Noun
game m (plural games)
- (tennis) game
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