Meaning

5 senses
  1. A period of intensely cold weather.

    Frost, Frostwetter

    моро́зыmorózy, за́морозкиzámorozki

    weather cold enough to cause freezing

  2. A halt of a regular operation.

    1983 October 3, Ted Kennedy, speech, Truth and Tolerance in America, Critics may oppose the nuclear freeze for what they regard as moral reasons.

    Stillstand, Stop

  3. The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.

    Einfrieren

    зависа́ниеzavisánije, фризfriz

  4. A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.

  5. A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.

    a hiring freeze; a pay freeze

Examples

642 sentences
  1. We were nearly frozen to death.

    Ми мало не померли від холоду. — deniko

    deWir waren fast totgefroren. — kriskelvin

  2. The meat is frozen.

    Це м'ясо заморожене. — deniko

    ruМясо заморожено. — marafon

    deDas Fleisch ist gefroren. — MUIRIEL

  3. The lake was frozen.

    Озеро замерзло. — ChickenKiev

    ruОзеро замёрзло. — marafon

    deDer See war zugefroren. — Manfredo

  4. Bring the frozen fish here.

    Принесіть заморожену рибу сюди. — ChickenKiev

    ruПринесите замороженную рыбу сюда. — shanghainese

    deBringen Sie den gefrorenen Fisch her! — Tamy

  5. Tom is going to freeze to death.

    Том околіє. — deniko

    deTom wird erfrieren. — frpzzd

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
period of cold:
(computing) state when the system ceases to respond to inputs:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
period of cold:
halt of regular operation:
(computing) state when the system ceases to respond to inputs:

Forms

plural: freezes
Singularfreeze
Pluralfreezes

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement:halt
  • weather cold enough to cause freezing:frost
  • the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid:freezing

Word family

4 related words

Collocations

6 patterns
  • froze to death
  • almost froze to
  • almost froze
  • going to freeze
  • to freeze to
  • was frozen to

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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