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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
freeze
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a pay freeze (=when no one’s pay is increased)
▪ Ministers have approved a public sector pay freeze.
a pipe freezes
▪ That winter was so cold that the pipes froze and we had no water.
a price freeze (=when prices are kept at the same level by a company or by the government)
▪ A price freeze on nine basic goods was announced on June 14.
above freezing/zero (=higher than the temperature at which water freezes)
▪ Tonight, temperatures should be just above freezing.
below freezing/zero (=lower than the temperature at which water freezes)
▪ In winter, temperatures dip to 40 degrees below freezing.
bleed/freeze/burn/starve to death
▪ Thousands of people are starving to death.
deep freeze
freezing fog
▪ Flights were cancelled due to freezing fog.
freezing point
▪ Alcohol has a lower freezing point than water.
freezing rain (=extremely cold rain)
▪ the icy wind and freezing rain
freezing/icy cold
▪ Take your gloves – it’s freezing cold out there.
frozen fish (=stored at a very low temperature to preserve it)
▪ I stopped at the supermarket to buy some frozen fish.
frozen solid
▪ The lake was frozen solid.
frozen
▪ We never buy cheap frozen chicken.
frozen
▪ packets of frozen vegetables
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
over
▪ Ponds were frozen over in the London parks and a thin but icy fog concealed the raw branches of the winter trees.
▪ I murmur as I pull on my shoes and stockings because now I will not have to walk barefoot over frozen mud.
▪ In winter, unless they're frozen over, they're a lagoon.
▪ The water is low in the well, and solidly frozen over.
▪ If the mud flats freeze over, it is impossible for them to find sufficient food.
▪ A recent snow, partly melted, had frozen over again.
▪ They don't know about cold so intense that rivers freeze over so you can drive a horse and cart across them.
▪ It is frozen over and looks smooth and black, like burnished steel.
■ NOUN
asset
▪ Mr Doherty was suspended and court injunctions taken to freeze both his assets and those of the computer company.
▪ A federal judge has frozen most of the assets.
▪ This gave wide investigative powers, and made possible the seizing, freezing and confiscation of assets.
▪ The court decision prohibits the destruction of books and records, and freezes the defendants' assets.
bank
▪ The Witham was frozen from bank to bank from Lincoln to Boston.
ground
▪ He was frozen to the ground.
▪ But it is hard to resist a plant once you see it burst forth in flawless bloom from the frozen ground.
▪ Virginia started forward again - faster - then stopped, frozen suddenly to the ground.
hand
▪ The money is frozen in the hands of a third party and not paid out to either side.
▪ He stood back and blew on his frozen hands.
▪ In the winter spanners and hammers froze to the hands.
▪ A great bellow of inhuman rage froze his hand in mid air.
horror
▪ The man sitting next to her grandmother wore the distinctive sharp-peaked cap of the Gestapo and Peach froze with horror.
▪ Running through the orange grove, which already had little green oranges on, past the chickens, she froze with horror.
ice
▪ Water frozen into solid ice is not available for organisms to grow, so food stays fresh.
▪ The ground is frozen, thin ice covers the puddles between the furrows of the empty gray field.
▪ When a plant starts to freeze, ice accumulates first in interstitial water, leaf veins and other extra-cellular spaces.
▪ This rich broth can be used for soups or sauces or frozen in containers or ice cube trays for later use.
▪ Sea-birds froze on the packed ice on the marshes.
▪ The city was frozen in ice for three months.
▪ I was frozen solid, like ice on a pond.
spot
▪ I stood frozen to the spot unable to do anything.
▪ Virginia felt frozen to the spot, unable to move a muscle.
▪ The shock of the cage breaking froze everyone to their spot.
▪ When she approached the youth he took a hesitant step back but froze to the spot on seeing Graham's threatening look.
▪ He froze and studied the spot in the fog from where the movement had come.
▪ He was frozen to the spot.
▪ He turned to leave and was frozen to the spot.
water
▪ Wood can be glued very well by wetting it with water which is subsequently frozen.
▪ Lift the thread slowly to see whether the water above it has frozen.
▪ Apart from bait caught on the water, mostly frozen squid and sardines are used.
▪ We had to go downstairs to the toilet, and in the winter the water used to freeze up.
▪ A water main froze and broke in the neighborhood, and the streets have been flooded for two days.
▪ More of a problem is where water has frozen inside a pipe and split the pipe.
▪ But salt water has a lower freezing temperature than plain water.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
above/below freezing
▪ Temperatures remained below freezing during the afternoon.
▪ And when the temperature goes much below freezing, the EV1 barely goes at all.
▪ It roots out vines, truffles for lemon trees painfully heated by charcoal to three degrees above freezing.
▪ It should show frost when outside temperatures are below freezing.
▪ Temperatures had, for several days, been near 00F at night, and it was well below freezing now.
▪ Thanks to the warming influence of the Gulf Stream, the climate is also mild, temperatures rarely dropping much below freezing.
▪ The snow may crust at night, due to outward radiation, even thought the air temperature remains well above freezing point.
▪ When she complained to a doctor that it was down below freezing she could not have been nearer the mark.
▪ Yet it was not really cold here; the temperature was well above freezing point.
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.
be frozen (stiff)
▪ A blue sponge of Holy Water in its receptacle just inside the door was frozen solid.
▪ Assets abroad were frozen by the U. N. These events set into motion the erasure of the middle class.
▪ Bacon should be kept refrigerated and although it can be frozen, freezing is not recommended because the product loses quality.
▪ By the time she turned around, Paula Engado was frozen in space like a china figurine.
▪ It's been predicted that the number of places on courses is likely to be frozen this year.
▪ The cooked meat can be frozen for one month.
▪ The extra pancakes may be frozen.
▪ The lake is frozen solid, but its shape is clearly drawn, absolutely flat in the undulating landscape.
be frozen with fear/terror/fright
boiling point/freezing point/melting point etc
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.
frozen stiff
▪ And they'd pull her dress off her, and it was frozen stiff.
▪ He was frozen stiff in the weeds beside the track.
wage freeze
▪ The wage freeze was part of a campaign to bring down inflation from 2,000-2,500 percent to a target of 13 percent.
▪ The 340 hourly-paid workers would not accept a wages freeze and cuts in their benefits and were sacked.
▪ They agreed to return to work but under protest at the wage freeze and benefits cuts.
▪ Those who had feared price and wage freezes were relieved.
▪ Three-quarters of the workforce was sacked after failing to accept a management plan which involved a wages freeze and benefit cuts.
when hell freezes over
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All government employees have had their salaries frozen at last year's levels.
▪ Dole urged fellow Republicans to back his plan to freeze state spending and cut taxes.
▪ Don't freeze the rolls for longer than three weeks.
▪ Hey! The milk's frozen solid!
▪ Run a thin stream of water to help keep the pipes from freezing.
▪ The city may have to freeze the hiring of new police officers.
▪ The cold weather froze firefighters' hoses.
▪ The company has announced that it intends to freeze all salaries for a year.
▪ The court issued an order freezing the company's assets temporarily.
▪ The water in the lake used to freeze most winters, and then it was good for skating.
▪ You'll freeze if you don't put a coat on.
▪ You can freeze any leftover chili for another meal.
▪ You can make a big batch and freeze some of it for later.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An increase in state pensions, due in November, was frozen.
▪ And at this point, all of us froze, because we all knew the awful reality we were in.
▪ As soon as the music stops everyone freezes.
▪ As the ground freezes over the winter, many species of plants on the Great Plains come loose and become tumbleweeds.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ Not Swindon; the big freeze has been a nightmare.
▪ But the big freeze suprised the weathermen with warnings coming as late as 4am to council depots.
deep
▪ Odd skimmer and some roach fron Warrington water to ice breakers before the deep freeze.
▪ So far, winter has kept most parts of the country in the deep freeze.
▪ The new year saw the first signs of a thaw in that deep freeze.
▪ The deep freeze caught those that distribute gas to homes and offices by surprise.
▪ Opening the deep freeze is like standing on stage at the Palladium: there are that many eyes staring out at you.
▪ I've been a life insurance salesman and I was in the deep freeze business for ages.
hard
▪ And a hard freeze should take place before harvesting in late November.
▪ Wait to prune in March, when the Gulf Coast area is usually out of danger of a hard freeze.
■ NOUN
pay
▪ A public sector pay freeze and a squeeze on benefits are thought to be among the main items in the package.
▪ While the Cabinet has yet to make final decisions, ministers seemed set to approve a pay freeze.
▪ Around one in eight of the survey sample reported a pay freeze for the workers concerned.
▪ Cuts in benefits and a public sector pay freeze are thought to be likely.
wage
▪ Those who had feared price and wage freezes were relieved.
▪ They agreed to return to work but under protest at the wage freeze and benefits cuts.
▪ The wage freeze was part of a campaign to bring down inflation from 2,000-2,500 percent to a target of 13 percent.
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.
be frozen (stiff)
▪ A blue sponge of Holy Water in its receptacle just inside the door was frozen solid.
▪ Assets abroad were frozen by the U. N. These events set into motion the erasure of the middle class.
▪ Bacon should be kept refrigerated and although it can be frozen, freezing is not recommended because the product loses quality.
▪ By the time she turned around, Paula Engado was frozen in space like a china figurine.
▪ It's been predicted that the number of places on courses is likely to be frozen this year.
▪ The cooked meat can be frozen for one month.
▪ The extra pancakes may be frozen.
▪ The lake is frozen solid, but its shape is clearly drawn, absolutely flat in the undulating landscape.
be frozen with fear/terror/fright
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.
frozen stiff
▪ And they'd pull her dress off her, and it was frozen stiff.
▪ He was frozen stiff in the weeds beside the track.
wage freeze
▪ The wage freeze was part of a campaign to bring down inflation from 2,000-2,500 percent to a target of 13 percent.
▪ The 340 hourly-paid workers would not accept a wages freeze and cuts in their benefits and were sacked.
▪ They agreed to return to work but under protest at the wage freeze and benefits cuts.
▪ Those who had feared price and wage freezes were relieved.
▪ Three-quarters of the workforce was sacked after failing to accept a management plan which involved a wages freeze and benefit cuts.
when hell freezes over
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The prime minister has announced a freeze on income tax for two years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Banana plants will die back in a freeze but usually return in the spring from the rootstocks.
▪ Other stringent measures included a freeze on tax allowances this year.
▪ Unless a freak freeze is experienced, an unusually warm late winter-early springtime will have Augusta National in lush heavily-grassed condition.
▪ Wait to prune in March, when the Gulf Coast area is usually out of danger of a hard freeze.
▪ While the Cabinet has yet to make final decisions, ministers seemed set to approve a pay freeze.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freeze

Freeze \Freeze\, v. t.

  1. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

  2. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

    A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life.
    --Shak.

    To freeze out, to drive out or exclude by cold or by cold treatment; to force to withdraw; as, to be frozen out of one's room in winter; to freeze out a competitor.

    A railroad which had a London connection must not be allowed to freeze out one that had no such connection.
    --A. T. Hadley.

    It is sometimes a long time before a player who is frozen out can get into a game again.
    --R. F. Foster.

Freeze

Freeze \Freeze\ (fr[=e]z), n. (Arch.) A frieze. [Obs.]

Freeze

Freeze \Freeze\, v. i. [imp. Froze (fr[=o]z); p. p. Frozen (fr[=o]"z'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Freezing.] [OE. fresen, freosen, AS. fre['o]san; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushv[=a] ice, prush to spirt. ? 18. Cf. Frost.]

  1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

    Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40[deg] below zero.

  2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.

    To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor.

Freeze

Freeze \Freeze\, n. The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
freeze

alteration of freese, friese, from Middle English fresen, from Old English freosan (intransitive) "turn to ice" (class II strong verb; past tense freas, past participle froren), from Proto-Germanic *freusan "to freeze" (cognates: Dutch vriezen, Old Norse frjosa, Old High German friosan, German frieren "to freeze," and related to Gothic frius "frost"), from Proto-Germanic *freus-, equivalent to PIE root *preus- "to freeze," also "to burn" (cognates: Sanskrit prusva, Latin pruina "hoarfrost," Welsh rhew "frost," Sanskrit prustah "burnt," Albanian prus "burning coals," Latin pruna "a live coal").\n

\nOf weather, "be cold enough to freeze," 13c. Meaning "perish from cold" is c.1300. Transitive sense "harden into ice, congeal as if by frost" first recorded late 14c.; figurative sense late 14c., "make hard or unfeeling." Intransitive meaning "become rigid or motionless" attested by 1720. Sense of "fix at a certain level" is from 1933; of assets, "make non-transactable," from 1922. Freeze frame is from 1960, originally "a briefly Frozen Shot after the Jingle to allow ample time for Change over at the end of a T.V. 'Commercial.' " ["ABC of Film & TV," 1960].

freeze

"freezing conditions," c.1400, from freeze (v.).

Wiktionary
freeze

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context intransitive English) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. 2 (context transitive English) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. 3 (context intransitive English) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. 4 (context intransitive informal English) To be affected by extreme cold. 5 (context intransitive English) To become motionless. 6 (context figuratively English) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize. 7 To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill. 8 (context transitive English) To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets Etymology 2

n. 1 A period of intensely cold weather. 2 A halt of a regular operation. 3 (context computer English) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs. 4 (context curling English) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out. 5 (context specifically in finance English) A block on pay rises. Etymology 3

n. (obsolete form of frieze English)

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WordNet
freeze

  1. n. the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid [syn: freezing]

  2. weather cold enough to cause freezing [syn: frost]

  3. an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze" [syn: halt]

  4. fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level; "a freeze on hiring"

  5. [also: frozen, froze]

freeze

  1. v. change to ice; "The water in the bowl froze" [ant: boil]

  2. stop moving or become immobilized; "When he saw the police car he froze" [syn: stop dead]

  3. be cold; "I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on"

  4. cause to freeze; "Freeze the leftover food"

  5. stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it; "Suspend the aid to the war-torn country" [syn: suspend]

  6. be very cold, below the freezing point; "It is freezing in Kalamazoo"

  7. change from a liquid to a solid when cold; "Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit" [syn: freeze out, freeze down]

  8. prohibit the conversion or use of (assets); "Blocked funds"; "Freeze the assets of this hostile government" [syn: block, immobilize, immobilise] [ant: unblock, unblock]

  9. anesthetize by cold

  10. suddenly behave coldly and formally; "She froze when she saw her ex-husband"

  11. [also: frozen, froze]

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Wikipedia
Freeze (art exhibition)

Freeze is the title of an art exhibition that took place in July 1988 in an empty London Port Authority building at Surrey Docks in London Docklands. Its main organiser was Damien Hirst. It was significant in the subsequent development of the Young British Artists.

Freeze

Freeze may refer to:

Freeze (song)
Freeze (LL Cool J song)

"Freeze" was the second and final single from LL Cool J's 12th album, Todd Smith. It was released in 2006 for Def Jam Recordings, was produced by LL Cool J and Lyfe Jennings and featured vocals from Lyfe Jennings. Freeze was not a success, peaking at only #65 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. The music video was directed by Hype Williams.

Freeze (T-Pain song)

"Freeze" is the third and final single from R&B singer T-Pain from his third album, Thr33 Ringz. The song features singer Chris Brown. The song was released on iTunes on October 10 and was added to T-Pain's MySpace on October 17. A version that features Omarion was originally on the album, but was changed to Chris Brown.

Freeze (album)

Freeze is the tenth studio album by Dutch rock and roll and blues group Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. The album reached #63 on the Dutch album chart on 3 November 1990, and stayed on the chart for 5 weeks. Brood, who had just won the 1989 Popprijs, one of the highest Dutch awards for popular music, recorded Freeze with the help of Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band and Tejano accordion player Flaco Jiménez. Lack of success for this album leads Brood to stop touring.

Freeze (software engineering)

In software engineering, a freeze is a point in time in the development process after which the rules for making changes to the source code or related resources become more strict, or the period during which those rules are applied. A freeze helps move the project forward towards a release or the end of an iteration by reducing the scale or frequency of changes, and may be used to help meet a roadmap. The exact rules depend on the type of freeze and the particular development process in use; for example, they may include only allowing changes which fix bugs, or allowing changes only after thorough review by other members of the development team. They may also specify what happens if a change contrary to the rules is required, such as restarting the freeze period.

Two common types of freezes are:

  • A (complete) specification freeze, in which the parties involved decide not to add any new requirement, specification, or feature to the feature list of a software project, so as to begin coding work.
  • A (complete) feature freeze, in which all work on adding new features is suspended, shifting the effort towards fixing bugs and improving the user experience. The addition of new features may have a disruptive effect on other parts of the program, due both to the introduction of new, untested source code or resources and to interactions with other features; thus, a feature freeze helps improve the program's stability.
    For example: "user interface feature freeze" means no more features will be permitted to the user interface portion of the code; bugs can still be fixed.
  • A ' (complete) code freeze', in which no changes whatsoever are permitted to a portion or the entirety of the program's source code. Particularly in large software systems, any change to the source code may have unintended consequences, potentially introducing new bugs; thus, a code freeze helps ensure that a portion of the program that is known to work correctly will continue to do so. Code freezes are often employed in the final stages of development, when a particular release or iteration is being tested, but may also be used to prevent changes to one portion of a program while another is undergoing development.
    For example: "physics freeze" means no changes whatsoever will be permitted to the physics portion of the code.
Freeze (b-boy move)

A freeze is a b-boying technique that involves halting all body motion, often in an interesting or balance-intensive position. It is implied that the position is hit and held from motion as if freezing in motion, or into ice. Freezes often incorporate various twists and distortions of the body into stylish and often difficult positions.

Spins are often combined with freezes, and the spins are usually done in the form of kicks. Various handstands ("inverts", "Nikes", and "pikes") can be frozen, and skilled breakers sometimes incorporate the technique of threading into handstands by forming a loop with one arm and leg, then "threading" the other leg in and out of the loop.

Freeze (TV series)

Freeze is a 2006 South Korean miniseries starring Lee Seo-jin, Park Han-byul and Son Tae-young. It aired on Channel CGV from October 27 to October 31, 2006 for 5 episodes.

Freeze (media personality)

Ifedayo Olarinde popularly called Freeze is a Nigerian radio host and presenter. He won the favorite Nigerian OAP at the 2014 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards.

Freeze (video gamer)

Aleš Kněžínek, better known as Freeze, is a Czech League of Legends player who is the AD Carry for H2k-Gaming of the European League of Legends Championship Series. He has also played for Renegades, Copenhagen Wolves, Ninjas in Pyjamas and others. He was the first Czech national to play in the LCS.

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Usage examples of "freeze".

She emerged from the oaks, expecting to see Acorn still frozen upon the riverbank.

Warped into adamantine fretwork, hung And filled with frozen light the chasms below.

Juss, enforcing his half frozen limbs to resume the ascent, beheld a sight of woe too terrible for the eye: a young man, helmed and graithed in dark iron, a black-a-moor with goggle-eyes and white teeth agrin, who held by the neck a fair young lady kneeling on her knees and clasping his as in supplication, and he most bloodily brandishing aloft his spear of six foot of length as minded to reave her of her life.

As she turned to Alec, frozen in awe beside her, he saw the startling blue of her eyes, the flush of healthy color in her cheeks.

Sometimes the wolves would slink into the Lesser Town and attack the almsfolk foraging for scraps in the middens, and sometimes an almsman would be discovered dead in the snow, half naked and frozen stiff, still clutching his staff, looking like a statue toppled from its pedestal.

I can reply is even the most rugged, xenophile, radiation-resistant cryophilic anaerobes we can imagine are going to have a hard time maintaining more than a toehold on current-day Mars, spending most of their time in a non-metabolic, frozen state, waiting for the times when conditions are right and water can be briefly liquid on the surface.

My poor flesh freezes when I think of Ken out in the fearful anomaly now, fighting that enemy machine.

She hugged her knees and looked out over the expanse of sand that lapped against the yellow stone aqueduct like a tan and frozen sea.

They are still there, Tom Arder, Arne, Venturi, and are now like stones, you know, frozen stones, in the darkness.

Argot spoke a word of command and the horse froze in place, standing stock-still in the yard, with the boy on his back, while Argot went over to speak to the soldier.

They raced around the yard, with the armadillo freezing and then dashing off in another direction, with Sweetie hot on its trail.

Pearl, unpack and hang everything up carefully, iron things that had wrinkled, take a bath, put on the pajamas she usually wore when she slept without me, get in bed with Pearl, have a half cup of frozen chocolate yogurt sweetened with aspartame, and watch a movie.

And then Astasia saw her freeze, stabbing her finger at an upper window.

Had it not been for the false Atene, who disobeyed my words, as it was foredoomed that she should do, by this day we were across the mountains, or had travelled northward through the frozen desert and the rivers.

The bullet she would fire contained frozen sodium azide, a metabolic inhibitor.