hot vs cold
Definitions
adjective
- having or dealing with dangerously high levels of radioactivity
- used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning
- producing a burning sensation on the taste nerves
- recently stolen or smuggled
- very unpleasant or even dangerous
Examples
When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
But at lunch on the first day we were approached by the helpful Hotel Manager Henri and offered a swap to an overwater bungalow.
The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me.
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.
