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frostbite
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frostbite \Frost`bite"\, v. t. To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost.
My wife up and with Mrs. Pen to walk in the fields to
frostbite themselves.
--Pepys.
Frostbite \Frost"bite\, n.
The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the
body, as the ears, fingers, toes, or nose. Severe frostbite
can lead to the loss of fingers or toes.
--Kane.
Wiktionary
n. The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To expose to the effect of frost, or a frosty air; to blight or nip with frost. 2 (context intransitive English) To engage in winter sailboating.
WordNet
n. destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene [syn: cryopathy]
Wikipedia
Frostbite is a 2005 film, starring Peter Jason, Traci Lords, Adam Grimes, and Phil Morris. Its main character Billy Wagstaff, played by Adam Grimes, has just been accepted to the notorious snowboarding school in the town Schittsville. When he arrives he is introduced to a group of young, rich snobs that rule the slopes of the mountain, and a psychotic instructor named Jaffe, played by Peter Jason, who gets inspiration for his training from his background as an elite trooper. Before Billy knows of it, he has been kicked out of the school, and thrown down the black slope in a taped garbage can by the "richies". Then the mountain is turned into a war zone between the "richies" and the "poories", led by Billy.
The film features appearances by Playboy Playmates Suzanne Stokes and Buffy Tyler, the Hawaiian Tropic girls as well as a special appearance by Traci Lords.
Frostbite is a 1983 action game designed by Steve Cartwright for the Atari 2600, and published by Activision in 1983. The game combines elements of Frogger and Q*bert in an arctic setting.
The object of Frostbite is to help Frostbite Bailey build igloos by jumping on floating blocks of ice, while trying to avoid deadly hazards like clams, snow geese, Alaskan king crabs, polar bears, and the rapidly dropping temperature.
Frostbite (Swedish title: Frostbiten) is a Swedish comedy horror film from 2006 directed by Anders Banke.
As well as the horror theme, various parts also have pure humour elements, and it is considered a horror/comedy by some newspapers that rated it. The film takes place in a small town in northern Sweden during midwinter, making the environment perfect for vampires—because there are no sunny hours during the dark and cold Nordic winter days. The vampire clan originate from Ukraine, where Swedish volunteers serving with an SS regiment are attacked by vampires and bring the plague of vampirism home, where an SS officer is later the head of the clan.
Frostbite, (real name Leon Carver) is a character from the DV8 comic book series, published by Wildstorm.
Frostbite is a werewolf novel by David Wellington, published in serial online in July, 2006 and in print in 2009.
Frostbite, in comics, may refer to:
- Frostbite (G.I. Joe), a character that has appeared in a number of G.I. Joe comics
- Frostbite (Wildstorm), a character from Wildstorm Comics
- Frostbite, a Marvel Comics character and enemy of Iron Man
- Frostbite, a Marvel Comics character who was a member of the team in X-Men 2099
- Frostbite, a character that appeared in DC Comics' Young Heroes in Love
- Frostbite (Sanna Strand), a Marvel Comics character who was introduced in Battleworld Runaways
Frostbite is a medical condition involving damage to skin and tissues due to extreme cold. The term may also refer to:
Frostbite is a vampire novel written by Richelle Mead. It is the second novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Vampire Academy. Frostbite continues the story of the main character, Rose Hathaway including her bond with Princess Vasilisa "Lissa" Dragomir, her budding romance with her instructor Dimitri Belikov, and her education in becoming a Guardian.
__NOTOC__ Frostbite is a game engine developed by EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE), the creators of the Battlefield series. The engine currently is designed for use on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One platforms and is adapted for a range of video game genres. The engine was first used by DICE to create first-person shooters, but it has been expanded to include various other genres such as racing, role playing games and real-time strategy and is employed by a number of EA studios. Thus far, the engine is exclusive to Electronic Arts with all titles being published by EA.
Frostbite is the seventh studio album by Albert Collins, released in 1980 through the Alligator Records label.
Frostbite is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and cartoon series. He is the G.I. Joe Team's Snow Cat driver and debuted in 1985.
Frostbite is the soundtrack to the 2006 Anders Banke film of the same name. The orchestral score was composed by Anthony Lledo and released in 2006 on MovieScore Media.
Usage examples of "frostbite".
Conquistadors were burned by day in the Andean sun, frostbitten by night, malnourished by any good dietary standard, often half-starved for oxygen.
It was the point of triage for all manner of illnesses that rolled down the mountainside to their doorstep: broken bones, pulmonary and cerebral edema, frostbite, heart conditions, dysentery, snow blindness, and all sorts of infections, including STDs.
The temperature at Garbutt Field was one hundred and twelve degrees above zero and they had a cursing gunner with frostbite.
I was exhausted, I was frostbitten, and I found my camp empty except for a semiliterate letter from Berne.
The tips of the green pines, the crests of the silver spruces, waved about masses of vivid gold aspen trees, and wonderful cerise and flaming red of maples, and crags of yellow rock, covered with the bronze of frostbitten sumac.
Apparently Lexie had a slight case of frostbite, and they stayed here an extra day, so she would be in better shape to travel.
Most of all Edwina wanted to see a specialist to make sure that Teddy was alright and Fannie did not lose her frostbitten fingers.
Lenz was diagnosed clinically claustrophobic and took prescription medication for anxiety and ensconcement-phobias, and she ended up successfully filing a Seven-Figure suit against Greyhound Lines and the almost-defunct Commonwealth Highway Authority for psychiatric trauma, public mortification, and second-degree frostbite, and received such a morbidly obese settlement from the Dukakis-appointed 18th-Circus Civil Court that when the check arrived, in an extra-long-size envelope to accommodate all the zeroes, Mrs.
Tranquilino Jeantete had lost one ear tip to frostbite during the same long-ago winter that the Strawberry Mesa Body Shop and Pipe Queen operator, Ruby Archuleta, killed a deer with her bare hands.
Some of the hens had gotten frostbite, for they were tender in those unfeathered fleshy parts, and Crope feared the black rot might set in.
Here, in the camp hospital, he bad the five toes of his right foot amputated, for they were rotten with frostbite he had picked up while wandering through the snow after escaping from the train.
Its only fault was that like so many other sports cars it had a totally inefficient heater, which in spite of coaxing and overhauls stubbornly refused to do more than demist the windscreen and raise my toes one degree above frostbite.
The other patients were, expectably, accident cases or, more numerous, frostbite victims.
He'd passsed out of course with not enough air up there, and he was so frostbit I heard they had to take off one of his feet and all but the thumb on the left hand.
He got his nose frostbit a couple of times trying to track down field mice in winter.