Definition of Freeze

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Freeze

A frieze.

To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.

To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.

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Freeze Quotations

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'
Jim Carrey

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
Edward de Bono

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
Albert Pike

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl S. Buck

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.
Robert Johnson

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
Sam Mendes

Alinsky's 1971 book, "Rules for Radicals," is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
Karl Rove

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
Fran Drescher

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.
Herman Kahn

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
Andy Goldsworthy

Freeze Translations

freeze in Afrikaans is vries
freeze in Danish is fryse
freeze in Dutch is vriezen
freeze in Finnish is pakastaa
freeze in German is frieren, einfrieren, einfrieren
freeze in Italian is aver freddo
freeze in Latin is congelo
freeze in Norwegian is fryse, stivne
freeze in Spanish is congelar, helar
freeze in Swedish is frysa

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