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Chill
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- 1 Moderately cold or chilly.
"A chill wind was blowing down the street."
- 2 Unwelcoming; not cordial.
"Arriving late at the wedding, we were met with a chill reception."
- 3 Calm, relaxed, easygoing. slang
"The teacher is really chill and doesn't care if you use your phone during class."
- 4 "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group. slang
"That new movie was chill, man."
- 5 Okay, not a problem. slang
"Sorry about that. —It's chill."
- 1 I will West-Country, contraction, obsolete
"Chill not let go, zir, without vurther 'casion"
- 1 Acronym of CCITT High Level Language. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 2 A surname.
- 1 A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness. countable, uncountable
"There was a chill in the air."
- 2 coldness due to a cold environment wordnet
- 3 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. countable, uncountable
"Close the window or you'll catch a chill."
- 4 an almost pleasurable sensation of fright wordnet
- 5 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. countable, uncountable
"Despite the heat, he felt a chill as he entered the crime scene."
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- 6 a sudden numbing dread wordnet
- 7 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. countable, uncountable
- 8 a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever wordnet
- 9 The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel. countable, uncountable
- 10 A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness. countable, uncountable
"However, the chill between the two giants did not last long; every constituency except the Westernizers found virtue in warming up to China."
- 11 Calmness; equanimity. countable, uncountable
"For those of us who relate to that furious paddling in some form (whether we choose to conceal it below the surface or not), we are probably also aware of what, besides the water, we are really clashing against: a culture of chill."
- 12 A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire. countable, uncountable
"Will and Grace still have no chill; having a pillow fight in the Oval Office proves that."
- 13 A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this. countable, uncountable
"It was a courageous move by these activists, still living in the chill of the Cold War, to face red-baiting for holding protests that turned Washington's charges against the Cuban Revolution back on the U.S. government."
- 1 To lower the temperature of something; to cool. transitive
"Chill before serving."
- 2 loose heat wordnet
- 3 To become cold. intransitive
"In the wind he chilled quickly."
- 4 make cool or cooler wordnet
- 5 To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling. transitive
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- 6 depress or discourage wordnet
- 7 To become hard by rapid cooling. intransitive
- 8 To relax; to lie back; to take things easy. intransitive, slang
"Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up."
- 9 To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. intransitive, slang
"Hey, we should chill this weekend."
- 10 To smoke marijuana. intransitive, slang
"On Friday night do you wanna chill?"
- 11 To discourage, depress. figuratively, transitive
"Censorship chills public discourse."
Etymology
From Middle English chele, chile, from Old English ċiele, ċele (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-West Germanic *kali, from Proto-Germanic *kaliz, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold”). Closely related with Dutch kil. Also akin to cool, cold, gel, and congeal, which see.
From Middle English chele, chile, from Old English ċiele, ċele (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-West Germanic *kali, from Proto-Germanic *kaliz, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold”). Closely related with Dutch kil. Also akin to cool, cold, gel, and congeal, which see.
From Middle English chillen, from Old English ċilian (“to be cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kilēn (“to be cold”). Cognate with Middle Dutch killen (“to be cold”), Dutch killen (“to be cold, shiver”).
From Middle English ichille, equivalent to ch- + will, from ich + will.
Variant of Child.
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