chill

Signification (English)

Noun

1. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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. The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
6. A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
7. Calmness; equanimity.
8. A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
9. A chilling effect; an atmosphere of this.

Adj

1. Moderately cold or chilly.
2. Unwelcoming; not cordial.
3. (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
4. (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
5. (slang) Okay, not a problem.

Verb

1. To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
2. To become cold.
3. To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
4. To become hard by rapid cooling.
5. (slang) To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
6. (slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
7. (slang) To smoke marijuana.
8. To discourage, depress.

Contraction

I will

Concepts

refroidir

froid

🥶

frisson

rafraîchir

refroidissement

geler

froidure

🥶

glacer

crève

redouter

tremper

coup de froid

fraîcheur

mettre à rafraîchir

mettre au frais

se relaxer

grelottement

carquois

chiller

congeler

coup

fraicheur

frais

frissonner

froideur

rafraichir

rhume

🥶

tremblement

Synonyms

cold

🥶

cool

🆒

coldness

cool down

frigidity

coolness

refrigerate

shiver

chilliness

freeze

shudder

gelidity

iciness

catarrh

thrill

shivering

affright

frost

cool off

quiver

fever

🤒

malaria

ague

frigid

nip

frozeness

discourage

cold wave

cold weather

refrigeration

rigor

scare

😨

startle

freezing

fresh

tingle

frighten

be afraid

frisson

frostiness

make cold

low temperature

bitterness

densener

glaciation

fear

😨

pall

icy

alarm

refrigeratory

algidity

chilldown

common cold

have a slight fever

have fever and ague

refrigerated storage

fit of cold

cooling action

cold shortness

cold quenching

cool-off

be afraid of

benumb

bitter

burial

callousness

chill out

chills

chilly

cold air

cool-down

cough

creepiness

creeps

damp

deject

demoralise

dew

dishearten

dismay

dispirit

dither

emaciated

feverish

flu

fright

frigidness

frosty

horror

intimidate

lay off

numb

panic

plump

quench

refrigerant

relax

rest

shakes

shivering fit

shivers

tame

terror

throb

unman

wart

become cool

cold-storage

grow cold

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/t͡ʃɪl/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: chele

Inherited from ancien anglais: ċiele

Cognate with néerlandais: kil

Inherited from moyen anglais: chillen

Inherited from ancien anglais: ċilian

Cognate with moyen néerlandais: killen

Cognate with néerlandais: killen

In summary

From Middle English chele, chile, from Old English ċiele, ċele (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-West Germanic *kali, from Proto-Germanic *kaliz, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold”). Closely related with Dutch kil. Also akin to cool, cold, which see.

Phrases

I felt a chill down my spine .

J'ai senti un froid dans ma colonne vertébrale.