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cool
English
Alternative forms
- (slang) c00l, coo, k00l, kewl, kool, qewl, qool
Pronunciation
- enPR: ko?ol, IPA(key): /ku?l/
- Rhymes: -u?l
Etymology 1
From Middle English cool, from Old English c?l (“cool, cold, tranquil, calm”), from Proto-West Germanic *k?l(?), from Proto-Germanic *k?laz, *k?luz (“cool”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“cold”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian köil (“cool”), West Frisian koel (“cool”), Dutch koel (“cool”), Limburgish kool (“cool”), German Low German köhl (“cool”), German kühl (“cool”). Related to cold.
Adjective
cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolest)
- Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
- Synonym: chilly
- Antonyms: lukewarm, tepid, warm
- Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
- Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
- Antonym: warm
- Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
- Synonyms: distant, phlegmatic, standoffish, unemotional
- Antonym: passionate
- Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
- Antonym: warm
- Calmly audacious.
- Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
- Who will lend me a cool hundred.
- 1900, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Transmigration
- You remember Bulger, don't you? You lost a cool hundred to him one night here over the cards, eh?
- 1944 November 28, Irving Brecher and Fred F. Finklehoffe, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer:
- My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million.
- (informal) Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
- Antonyms: awkward, uncool
- (informal) In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
- Synonyms: à la mode, fashionable, in fashion, modish, stylish, happening, hip, in, trendy
- Antonyms: démodé, old hat, out, out of fashion
- 2008, Lou Schuler, "Foreward", in Nate Green, Built for Show, page xii
- The fact that I was middle-aged, bald, married, and raising girls instead of chasing them didn't really bother me. Muscles are cool at any age.
- (informal) Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
- Synonyms: acceptable, all right, OK
- Antonyms: (UK) not cricket, not on, unacceptable
- (informal) Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.
- Synonyms: easy, fine, not bothered, not fussed
- Antonyms: bothered, upset
- Quietly impudent, defiant, or selfish; deliberately presuming: said of persons and acts.
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Chinese: ?
- ? Dutch: cool
- ? French: cool
- ? German: cool
- ? Polish: cool
- ? Spanish: cool
- ? Swedish: cool
Translations
Noun
cool (uncountable)
- A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
- in the cool of the morning
- A calm temperament.
- Synonyms: calmness, composure
- The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English colen, from Old English c?lian (“to cool, grow cold, be cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *k?l?n (“to become cold”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to freeze”). Cognate with Dutch koelen (“to cool”), German kühlen (“to cool”), Swedish kyla (“to cool, refrigerate”). Also partially from Middle English kelen, from Old English c?lan (“to cool, be cold, become cold”), from Proto-Germanic *k?lijan? (“to cool”), altered to resemble the adjective cool. See keel.
Verb
cool (third-person singular simple present cools, present participle cooling, simple past and past participle cooled)
- (intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder.
- I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.
- (transitive) To make cooler, less warm.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
- (transitive) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- (transitive) To kill.
- 1965, "Sex Jungle" (narrated in Perversion for Profit)
- Maybe he would die. That would mean I had murdered him. I smiled, trying the idea on for size. One of the things that always had cheesed me a little was that I had no kills to my credit. I'd been in plenty of rumbles, but somehow, I'd never cooled anyone. Well maybe now I had my first one. I couldn't feel very proud of skulling an old man, but at least I could say that I'd scored. That was a big kick.
- 1965, "Sex Jungle" (narrated in Perversion for Profit)
Derived terms
Translations
References
- cool in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- cool at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Colo, Colo., colo, colo-, loco
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English cool. Doublet of koel.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku(?)l/
- Hyphenation: cool
- Rhymes: -ul
- Homophone: koel
Adjective
cool (comparative cooler, superlative coolst)
- cool, fashionable
Inflection
French
Etymology
From English cool.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kul/
- Homophones: coule, coules, coulent
Adjective
cool (invariable)
- cool (only its informal senses, mainly fashionable)
- Les jeunes sont cool.
- Young people are cool.
- Les jeunes boivent de l'alcool pour être cool.
- Young people drink alcohol to be cool.
- Les jeunes sont cool.
Interjection
cool
- cool! great!
Anagrams
- looc
German
Etymology
From English cool, from Proto-Germanic *k?laz. Doublet of kühl.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ku?l]
Adjective
cool (comparative cooler, superlative am coolsten)
- (colloquial) cool (in its informal senses)
- Synonyms: brilliant, genial, geil
- (colloquial) cool, calm, easy-going
- Synonyms: lässig, ruhig
Declension
Further reading
- “cool” in Duden online
Polish
Etymology
From English cool.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kul/
Adjective
cool (not comparable)
- (slang) cool (in its informal senses)
- Synonyms: ?wietny, wspania?y, znakomity
Declension
Indeclinable.
Further reading
- cool in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- cool in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English cool
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kul/, [?kul]
Adjective
cool (plural cools or cool)
- cool (in its informal sense)
Anagrams
- loco
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English cool.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku?l/
Adjective
cool (comparative coolare, superlative coolast)
- cool! great!
Declension
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shell
English
Etymology
From Middle English schelle, from Old English s?iell, from Proto-West Germanic *skallju, from Proto-Germanic *skalj?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split, cleave”).
Compare West Frisian skyl (“peel, rind”), Dutch schil (“peel, skin, rink”), Low German Schell (“shell, scale”), Irish scelec (“pebble”), Latin silex (“pebble, flint”), siliqua (“pod”), Old Church Slavonic ??????? (skolika, “shell”). More at shale.Doublet of sheal.
- (computing): From being viewed as an outer layer of interface between the user and the operating-system internals.
Pronunciation
- enPR: sh?l, IPA(key): /??l/
- Rhymes: -?l
Noun
shell (plural shells)
- A hard external covering of an animal.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- (botany) The hard external covering of various plant seed forms.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
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- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day
- 1687, John Dryden, A Song for Cecilia's Day
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- An emaciated person.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- (Britain, slang) A person's ear.
- Synonym: shell-like
- Can I have a quick word in your shell?
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
shell (third-person singular simple present shells, present participle shelling, simple past and past participle shelled)
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- Nuts shell in falling.
- Wheat or rye shells in reaping.
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- 1993, Robin Nixon, The PC Companion (page 115)
- Automenu is a good program to try, and offers a fair amount of protection - but, unfortunately, it's one of those systems that allow users to shell to DOS.
- 1993, Robin Nixon, The PC Companion (page 115)
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (topology) To form a shelling.
Derived terms
- sheller
- shell out
Translations
Further reading
- shell in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- shell in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- shell on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- hells
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Etymology
From Middle English schal, from Old English s?eal.
Verb
shell
- shall
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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