Definitions for freezing
freez·ing

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. freeze, freezingnoun

   the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. freezingnoun

   The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.

2. freezingnoun

   The action of numbing with anesthetics.

3. freezingadjective

   Suffering or causing frost

4. freezingadjective

   Very cold

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Freezing

   of Freeze

2. Freezingadjective

   tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner

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1. Freezing

   Freezing or solidification is a phase transition in which a liquid turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point. All known liquids, except liquid helium, freeze when the temperature is lowered enough. Liquid helium remains liquid at atmospheric pressure even at absolute zero, and can be solidified only under pressure. For most substances, the melting and freezing points are the same temperature; however, certain substances possess differing solid–liquid transition temperatures. For example, agar displays a hysteresis in its melting and freezing temperatures. It melts at 85 °C and solidifies from 31 °C to 40 °C.

U.S. National Library of Medicine(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Freezing

   Liquids transforming into solids by the removal of heat.

Matched Categories

1. • Cooling
   • Phase Change

British National Corpus

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   Rank popularity for the word 'freezing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4256

How to pronounce freezing?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of freezing in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of freezing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of freezing in a Sentence

1. Qi Gao:

   We are bearish on Asia FX this year and look to buy USD/Asia FX on dips, a recovery in China, modest rise in oil prices, freezing of the Fed funds rate and a large size of QE or QQE by the ECB and BOJ could send Asian currencies higher. But it does not seem possible in the first half.

2. Kim Fish:

   I was on the phone with my 7-year-old daughter who asked me if her daddy was going to die, and that's when I collapsed on the floor like an accordion, i got up and burst out of the sand-bagged hospital doors to get back home to my husband, but I was stopped by 5-foot deep freezing seawater.

3. Lenur Islamov:

   We're tired of freezing in the wind, every driver stops and gets angry with us, saying they're right by law.

4. Ric Spooner:

   The potential risk for prices is for the downside as freezing output at current levels would be more of a symbolic act rather than a real market intervention. But you need to be open to surprises in this market.

5. Najib Razak:

   The undue conduct of the relevant agency and the timing of the freezing of my account is uncalled for, why is my personal liberty been circumvented when the court had already granted me bail pending trial and the fact that I have complied with my bail conditions?

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