ALL meanings of chill
chill
C c - verb chill When you chill something or when it chills, you lower its temperature so that it becomes colder but does not freeze. 3
- verb chill When cold weather or something cold chills a person or a place, it makes that person or that place feel very cold. 3
- verb chill If you say that something you see, hear, or feel chills you, you mean that it frightens you. 3
- countable noun chill If something sends a chill through you, it gives you a sudden feeling of fear or anxiety. 3
- countable noun chill A chill is a mild illness which can give you a slight fever and headache. 3
- adjective chill Chill weather is cold and unpleasant. 3
- adjective chill Chill is also a noun. 3
- noun chill a moderate coldness 3
- noun chill a sensation of coldness resulting from a cold or damp environment, or from a sudden emotional reaction 3
- noun chill a feverish cold 3
- noun chill a check on enthusiasm or joy 3
- noun chill a metal plate placed in a sand mould to accelerate cooling and control local grain growth 3
- verb chill to make or become cold 3
- verb chill to cool or freeze (food, drinks, etc) 3
- verb chill to depress (enthusiasm, etc) 3
- verb chill to discourage 3
- verb chill to cool (a casting or metal object) rapidly in order to prevent the formation of large grains in the metal 3
- verb chill to relax; calm oneself 3
- noun chill a feeling of coldness that makes one shiver; uncomfortable coolness 3
- noun chill a damper on enthusiasm; discouraging influence 3
- noun chill a feeling of sudden fear, apprehension, etc. 3
- noun chill coolness of manner; unfriendliness 3
- noun chill a cooled iron mold placed in contact with that part of a casting which is to be cooled rapidly and thus hardened on the surface 3
- abbreviation CHILL chilly 3
- intransitive verb chill to become cool or cold 3
- intransitive verb chill to be seized with a chill; shake or shiver, as with cold or fear 3
- intransitive verb chill to rest or relax 3
- intransitive verb chill to calm down 3
- intransitive verb chill to become hardened on the surface by rapid cooling 3
- verb transitive chill to make cool or cold 3
- verb transitive chill to cause a chill in 3
- verb transitive chill to check (enthusiasm, etc.) 3
- verb transitive chill to depress; dispirit 3
- verb transitive chill to harden (metal) on the surface by rapid cooling 3
- abbreviation Technical meaning of CHILL CCITT HIgh-Level Language 3
- noun chill coldness, especially a moderate but uncomfortably penetrating coldness: the chill of evening. 1
- noun chill a sensation of cold, usually with shivering: She felt a slight chill from the open window. 1
- noun chill a feeling of sudden fear, anxiety, or alarm. 1
- noun chill sudden coldness of the body, as during the cold stage of an ague: fevers and chills. 1
- noun chill a depressing influence or sensation: His presence cast a chill over everyone. 1
- noun chill lack of warmth of feeling; unfriendliness; coolness. 1
- noun chill Foundry. an inserted object or a surface in a mold capable of absorbing large amounts of heat, used to harden the surface of a casting or to increase its rate of solidification at a specific point. 1
- noun chill bloom1 (def 12). 1
- adjective chill moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly: a chill wind. 1
- adjective chill shivering with or affected by cold; chilly. 1
- adjective chill depressing or discouraging: chill prospects. 1
- adjective chill Slang. cool (def 14). 1
- adjective chill unduly formal; unfriendly; chilly: a chill reception. 1
- verb without object chill to become cold: The earth chills when the sun sets. 1
- verb without object chill to be seized with a chill; shiver with cold or fear. 1