chill
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
There was a chill in the air.
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)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.
Close the window or you'll catch a chill.
I felt a chill when the wind picked up.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)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.
Despite the heat, he felt a chill as he entered the crime scene.
The actor's eerie portrayal sent chills through the audience.
His menacing presence cast a chill over everyone.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)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.
- 5.
(countable, uncountable)The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
- 6.
(countable, uncountable)A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
- 7.
(countable, uncountable)Calmness; equanimity.
- 8.
(countable, uncountable)A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
- 9.
(countable, uncountable)A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.
- 10.
(Cornwall, obsolete)A kind of lamp that burns fish oil.
There is a last antiquity, and perhaps not least interesting, in "the Chill" or fish oil lamp, peculiar to Cornwall and a remote age, which now I lay before you. These lamps are rarely, very rarely seen, never in use, and passing from the memories of all but the very aged.
Tính từ
adjective- 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.
(slang)Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
The teacher is really chill and doesn't care if you use your phone during class.
Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.
Đồng nghĩa: laid-back, unconcerned, airy, at ease, at peace, carefree, careless, casual, chill, cool, devil-may-care, easy-breezy, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, indifferent, insouciant, laid-back, leisurely, lighthearted, loose, mellow, nonchalant, pococurante, relaxed, serene, solute, tranquil, unanxious, unbothered, unconcerned, undisturbed, unruffled, untroubled, unworried, wanton
- 4.
(slang)"Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
That new movie was chill, man.
Đồng nghĩa: cool
- 5.
(slang)Okay, not a problem.
Sorry about that. —It's chill.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
Chill before serving.
- 2.
(intransitive)To become cold.
In the wind he chilled quickly.
- 3.
(transitive)(transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- 4.
(intransitive)(intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- 5.
(intransitive, slang)To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.
The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.
- 6.
(intransitive, slang)To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
Hey, we should chill this weekend.
He likes to chill with his friends on Saturdays.
Đồng nghĩa: chill out
- 7.
(intransitive, slang)To smoke marijuana.
On Friday night do you wanna chill?
- 8.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To discourage, depress.
Censorship chills public discourse.
contraction
contractionch'ill
- 1.
(West Country, contraction, obsolete)I will
Đồng nghĩa: I'll
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ine-pro From Middle English chele, chile, from Old English ċiele, ċele (cold; coldness), from *kali, from Proto-Germanic *kaliz, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (to be cold). Closely related with kil. Also akin to cool, cold, gel, and congeal, which see.