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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chill
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cold/chill wind
▪ There was a cold wind this afternoon.
a grim/sobering/chilling reminder (=making you feel serious and worried or frightened)
▪ They passed the armed guard, a grim reminder of the ever-present threat of terrorism.
chill room
wind chill factor
▪ It must have been minus 5 with the wind chill factor.
wind chill
▪ It must have been minus 5 with the wind chill factor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
sudden
▪ There was that sudden, breathtaking chill of cold, clean air as you walked into the dome.
▪ However, the sudden chill loss of her also made him uneasy.
▪ We warmed our hands as though a sudden chill had come upon us at the mention of his name.
▪ A sudden chill rippled the length of her body from head to toes.
■ NOUN
wind
▪ The wind howls through the trees, the wind chill temperature must be low, and I have no clothes on.
▪ When the breezes started in earnest around 11, reports of the wind chill factor had us at minus-17.
▪ The Masters invariably coincides with a wind chill factor in this country.
▪ Cold gusts dropped the wind chill into the low 40s and played havoc with final-round scores in the highest-scoring Nissan since 1984.
■ VERB
catch
▪ Perhaps the beach volleyball players might catch a chill on the way there.
▪ Anders caught a bucketful of salmon, and I caught a chill in the salt spray.
▪ Overnight she'd caught a chill which showed every sign of developing into pneumonia.
feel
▪ They could feel the added chill from where they were standing.
▪ Moving to-ward them, he felt a chill of apprehension, and panic.
▪ I felt a small chill run down my spine.
▪ I felt a chill, but assumed it was the damp evening air.
▪ Meanwhile exporters are feeling the chill.
▪ Even retailers that had bucked the grim apparel trend all year felt the December chill.
▪ Despite the heat, Nuadu felt again the chill about his heart.
▪ Her hair whipped around her face; she felt the icy chill filling her.
get
▪ The matron wouldn't let him go because he was just getting over a chill.
▪ I get chills when I see it...
▪ I thought you were supposed to get cold chills on your right leg.
keep
▪ They stamped their feet and flapped their arms around their bodies to try to keep out the extreme chill.
▪ The first lady will keep out the January chill with a matching satin cape.
▪ People cluster around wood fires to keep off the night chill.
▪ Even their police greatcoats had been insufficient to keep out the chill and the wet of this storm.
send
▪ Mrs Mainwaring was supposed to make an appearance, which sent a chill throughout the assembled company.
▪ We both kept waiting for the moment when the experience would overwhelm us and send chills up our spines.
▪ The tie-up could send a chill through Bill Gates since it gives Novell an interesting point of entry to the enterprise.
▪ Yet their response to each other sent a chill down my back.
▪ A brief moment of the winter which pursued her sent a scampering chill through the warm place.
▪ They seemed to have darkened, smouldering in a way that sent hot and cold chills chasing each other through her body.
▪ His most recent observation has sent a chill down his spine; the comet, Swift Tuttle.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
send shivers/chills up (and down) your spine
▪ Stephen King's novels have sent shivers up readers' spines for more than 20 years.
▪ He kicked her sending shivers up her spine; again she yelped, and everything turned black.
▪ We both kept waiting for the moment when the experience would overwhelm us and send chills up our spines.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A small heater keeps off the night chill.
▪ Her description of the massacre sent a chill through the audience.
▪ Symptoms include fever, chills, and increased heart rate.
▪ There was a definite chill in his voice when he answered.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the chill will soon reach the betting shops too.
▪ But for both of them, in different ways, there was now an enduring chill in their lives.
▪ It complements a banger perfectly and will make you forget the November chill.
▪ The guides launched their drift boats at 9 a. m.; by 9: 30 the chill had set in.
▪ The sound of his bracelet precedes him and he brings a rush of morning chill in.
▪ There was that sudden, breathtaking chill of cold, clean air as you walked into the dome.
▪ To his bemusement there was no chill, or else the chill was lost on him.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bone
▪ He was feeling the clammy cold that seemed to penetrate his thick coat and chill his bones.
▪ The cold autumn-night air had chilled her to the bone, numbing her limbs with the dampness of the ground.
▪ The target unit is chilled to the bone, causing limbs to snap and weapons to break.
▪ A gust of wet wind blew down the alleyway, chilling me to the bone.
▪ By that time I was chilled to the bone, exhausted from the relentless battering of the traffic, sullen and depressed.
▪ The very prospect of her life being picked over like some succulent titbit chilled her to the bone.
▪ The cold wind closed around her like an icy fist, chilling her to the bone.
wind
▪ The wind was chilling and we wanted to find somewhere sheltered to have our sandwiches.
▪ The meet was way off schedule, and a vigorous wind chilled the stadium.
▪ A following wind which chilled the snow and made life complicated through the Compression troubled some of the top seed.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be chilled/frozen to the bone
▪ By that time I was chilled to the bone, exhausted from the relentless battering of the traffic, sullen and depressed.
▪ I swear you are frozen to the bone.
▪ The target unit is chilled to the bone, causing limbs to snap and weapons to break.
chilled/frozen/shocked etc to the marrow
▪ Soaked to the skin and chilled to the marrow of her bones, she shivered uncontrollably.
▪ The thought made him flush hot with embarrassment even though chilled to the marrow.
▪ Though chilled to the marrow, Karelius was otherwise not in too bad shape.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Chill the salad for an hour or two before serving.
▪ Chilled by the winds, people huddled under blankets.
▪ I think the wine should be chilled enough by now.
▪ Put some ice in the sink, and we'll chill the drinks in there.
▪ Shelly, just chill out, okay.
▪ The look in her eye chilled me.
▪ Wrap the dough in plastic and chill for at least an hour.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Additional time is required for cooking or chilling homemade dishes.
▪ Either by design or accident, Joe first boiled the crabs, then chilled and served them to an employee.
▪ Similar results are obtained on chilling the petiole of leaf 1 to 3°C, except that translocation is inhibited for at least 20 minutes.
III.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
air
▪ An eddy of chill air swirled into the carriage, fastening on his knuckles.
▪ A pale gray haze seemed to permeate the streets with chill air.
▪ The chill air cooled her face and seemed to sweep her problems into the distance.
▪ The door behind him swung open and a blast of chill air swept into the room.
▪ Patrick dressed quickly, his teeth chattering in the chill air, and then hurried down to the kitchen.
factor
▪ With the chill factor it's nearly minus forty.
▪ Ronald Reagan reluctantly canceled his inaugural parade in 1985 when the chill factor dropped well below zero, endangering the marchers.
wind
▪ A chill wind came through the open doors to the balcony.
▪ Over the valley, a full moon was rising, and a chill wind was blowing down from the distant mountains.
▪ But at least he was high above the city, where chill winds swept the air clean and freshened the skin.
▪ By now the skies were black, a chill wind was blustering down the street and the rain was slashing sideways.
▪ There were ominous dark clouds gathering overhead now and a chill wind.
▪ For some, the chill wind of competition is again blowing through their offices.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be chilled/frozen to the bone
▪ By that time I was chilled to the bone, exhausted from the relentless battering of the traffic, sullen and depressed.
▪ I swear you are frozen to the bone.
▪ The target unit is chilled to the bone, causing limbs to snap and weapons to break.
chilled/frozen/shocked etc to the marrow
▪ Soaked to the skin and chilled to the marrow of her bones, she shivered uncontrollably.
▪ The thought made him flush hot with embarrassment even though chilled to the marrow.
▪ Though chilled to the marrow, Karelius was otherwise not in too bad shape.
send shivers/chills up (and down) your spine
▪ Stephen King's novels have sent shivers up readers' spines for more than 20 years.
▪ He kicked her sending shivers up her spine; again she yelped, and everything turned black.
▪ We both kept waiting for the moment when the experience would overwhelm us and send chills up our spines.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A chill rain was falling steadily when we reached Bakhim Forest Rest House.
▪ An eddy of chill air swirled into the carriage, fastening on his knuckles.
▪ By now the skies were black, a chill wind was blustering down the street and the rain was slashing sideways.
▪ Eyes glitter with a memory of the chill snowfields that once claimed her.
▪ Ronald Reagan reluctantly canceled his inaugural parade in 1985 when the chill factor dropped well below zero, endangering the marchers.
▪ The house felt as if it had been converted to institutional use, someplace impersonal and chill.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chill

Chill \Chill\, a.

  1. Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.

    Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill.
    --Milton.

  2. Affected by cold. ``My veins are chill.''
    --Shak.

  3. Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.

  4. Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.

Chill

Chill \Chill\ (ch[i^]l), n. [AS. cele, cyle, from the same root as celan, calan, to be cold; akin to D. kil cold, coldness, Sw. kyla to chill, and E. cool. See Cold, and cf. Cool.]

  1. A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. ``[A] wintry chill.''
    --W. Irving.

  2. (Med.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.

  3. A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.

  4. An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
    --Raymond.

  5. The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
    --Knight.

    Chill and fever, fever and ague.

Chill

Chill \Chill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chilled (ch[i^]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Chilling.]

  1. To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.

    When winter chilled the day.
    --Goldsmith.

  2. To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.

    Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits.
    --Rogers.

  3. (Metal.) To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.

Chill

Chill \Chill\, v. i. (Metal.) To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chill

Old English ciele, cele "cold, coolness, chill, frost," from Proto-Germanic *kal- "to be cold," from PIE root *gel- "cold" (see cold). According to OED, the word seems to have been obsolete after c.1400 (displaced by cold) and the modern use is a back-formation since c.1600 from the verb.

chill

late 14c., intransitive, "to feel cold, grow cold;" c.1400, transitive, "to make cold," from chill (n.). Related: Chilled; chilling; chillingly. Figurative use from late 14c. Meaning "hang out" first recorded 1985; from earlier chill out "relax" (1979).\n\nSheila E. sizzles in the new flick, Krush Groove, but some New York critics couldn't groove with it because many of the terms are unfamiliar to them. Examples: breakin' out (slang for leaving), chill (for cool down) and death (for something that's really good).

["Jet," Nov. 11, 1985]

Wiktionary
chill

n. (context computing English) (acronym of CCITT High Level Language English)

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WordNet
chill

  1. v. depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"

  2. make cool or cooler; "Chill the food" [syn: cool, cool down] [ant: heat]

  3. loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm" [syn: cool, cool down] [ant: heat]

chill

adj. uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather" [syn: chilly]

chill

  1. n. coldness due to a cold environment [syn: iciness, gelidity]

  2. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" [syn: frisson, shiver, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle]

  3. a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever [syn: shivering]

  4. a sudden numbing dread [syn: pall]

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Wikipedia
Chill (role-playing game)

Chill is a role-playing game that captures the feel of 20th-century horror films. Players take on the role of envoys, members of a secret organization known as S.A.V.E. that tracks down and eliminates evil in the world.

Chill (radio station)

Chill is a British digital radio station dedicated to chill out, ambient and trip hop music.

CHILL (library consortium)

The Consortium of Independent Health Information Libraries in London (CHILL) is an association of libraries in the greater London area specializing in information on health and medicine.

The group was founded in 1997, and currently consists of 43 members 1.

The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy is a member, and benefits from this through preferential rates for journal purchases on behalf of the membership.

Chill (casting)

A chill is an object used to promote solidification in a specific portion of a metal casting mold. Normally the metal in the mold cools at a certain rate relative to thickness of the casting. When the geometry of the molding cavity prevents directional solidification from occurring naturally, a chill can be strategically placed to help promote it. There are two types of chills: internal and external chills.

Chill (film)

Chill is a 2007 horror film written and directed by Serge Rodnunsky and starring Thomas Calabro, Ashley Laurence, Shaun Kurtz, and James Russo.

CHILL

In computing, CHILL (an acronym for CCITT High Level Language) is a procedural programming language designed for use in telecommunication switches (the hardware used inside telephone exchanges). The language is still used for legacy systems in some telecommunication companies and for signal box programming.

The CHILL language is similar in size and complexity to the original Ada language. The first specification of the CHILL language was published in 1980, a few years before Ada.

ITU provides a standard CHILL compiler. A free CHILL compiler was bundled with GCC up to version 2.95, however, was removed from later versions. An object-oriented version, called Object CHILL, was developed also.

ITU is responsible for the CHILL standard, known as ITU-T Rec. Z.200. The equivalent ISO standard is ISO/IEC 9496:2003. (The text of the two documents is the same). In late 1999 CCITT stopped maintaining the CHILL standard.

CHILL was used in systems of Alcatel System 12 and Siemens EWSD, for example.

Chill (video game)

Chill is a PlayStation snowboarding video game published by Eidos Interactive in 1998 and developed by Silicon Dreams Studio. The game was designed by Jez Sherlock. A Sega Saturn version of the game was completed and stated to be published by Sega, but in the end it was left out unreleased by the publisher. However, the Sega Saturn version was leaked onto the internet in early 2011.

It features fifty tracks spread over five mountains, and features a two-player multiplayer mode that can be played in either vertical or horizontal split-screen mode.

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Chill (song)

"Chill" is a song by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus, originally released on the band's fourth album Into on October 29, 2001

The single was released on June 18, 2001 by the record label Playground Music. It was the second single from the album Into and features the tracks "Chill" and " F-F-F-Falling" (Acoustic). The maxi single also includes the b-side "Can't Stop Me" and the music video to "F-F-F-Falling". It was a number two hit in Finland.

"Chill" is a slow and melodic song, like many others on the album Into.

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Usage examples of "chill".

The purpose of my visit, and the frightful abnormalities it postulated struck at me all at once with a chill sensation that nearly over-balanced my ardour for strange delvings.

Then all the satisfaction she had derived from what she had heard Madame Bourdieu say departed, and she went off furious and ashamed, as if soiled and threatened by all the vague abominations which she had for some time felt around her, without knowing, however, whence came the little chill which made her shudder as with dread.

V With shudders chill as aconite, The couchant chewer of the cud Will start at times in pussy fright Before the dogs, when reads her sprite The streaks predicting streams of blood.

I petitioned for a cup of chill aconite, My descent to awful Hades had been soft, for now must I go With the curse by father Zeus cast on ambition immoderate.

Despite the warm Texas breeze, Angelina hugged herself against the sudden chill of her skin.

Before Argent could move, he felt a chill wind ghost across the back of his neck.

When the aspic is set, trim neatly, and arrange each round of sweetbread on a slice of chilled tomato.

Garnish with flowerets of cauliflower, dipped in aspic and chilled, and lettuce.

When the aspic is thoroughly set and chilled, remove from the mould and serve on two lettuce leaves, with any dressing desired.

Occasionally, as the afternoon waned beyond the portals of the aviary and she would be required to return to the Sanctuary, he would begin thinking of the hopelessness of the situation and a chill would work its way into the base of his spine and crawl upwards along his back like a spider.

The succulent aroma of barbecuing pork wafted through the chill spring air, and fragrant clouds of hickory smoke rose from the fires near the smithy, where haunches of venison, sides of mutton, and broiled fowl in their dozens turned on spits.

He should have been pleased that Batt had apparently moved quickly to start the matchmaking process, but for some reason, he felt a chill in his gut.

As often as the tale was embellished with new incidents or enforced by new testimony, the hearer grew pale, his breath was stifled by inquietudes, his blood was chilled, and his stomach was bereaved of its usual energies.

A long sarong in a dark, conservative print, a high-necked shirt and long-sleeved jacket against what a Betan would doubtless interpret as the station chill, and fine leather sandals completed an expensive-looking ensemble in the Betan style.

Twango himself, who came carefully across the garden, wearing his black gown and a bicorn hat of black fur to guard his head against the bite of the morning chill.