frost
Betekenis (Engels)
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- A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
- The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
- Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
- (obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.
- A shade of white, like that of frost.
- (slang) A disappointment; a cheat.
- A kind of light diffuser.
Synoniemen
frozeness
intensely cold weather
night frost
bitter cold
white frost
freezing weather
frost-bite
ground frost
freeze down
mild weather
dull polish
hard rime
frozen subsoil
biting cold
refrigerate
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Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/fɹɒst/
Etymologie (Engels)
From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with West Frisian froast (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Swedish frost (“frost”), Norwegian frost (“frost”), Icelandic frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze.
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