cold vs flu
Definitions
adjective
- feeling or showing no enthusiasm
- extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion
- unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication
- sexually unresponsive
- lacking the warmth of life
noun
- the sensation produced by low temperatures
- the absence of heat
- a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
Examples
She was all cold and bedraggled after falling into the river.
He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
A few minutes with the heron book cleared up the mystery; they were tricolored herons, the first I had ever seen.10 By the end of the month American goldfinches were shooting around like tossed gold pieces despite another cold spell.
Definitions
noun
- an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
Examples
Only a few minutes had gone when the Welshman flung in an inviting right-foot cross to the back post.
The ether gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, being converted into acetic acid; this, by its superior affinities, reacts on the iodide present, converting it into acetate, with liberation of hydriodic acid; while this latter, under the influence of the atmospheric oxygen, is very rapidly converted into water and iodine.
Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
