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

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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. John Wood:

   We have huge demand. And we have donors who are willing to underwrite it and you've got the FDA freezing the market.

2. Alexey Texler:

   We are talking about freezing January production levels. It would be higher than the annual average for 2015 by around 1.5 percent.

3. Amy Rowland:

   For example, freezing fish to the appropriate temperature and for the appropriate duration can kill parasites.

4. Antony Blinken:

   They’re destroying critical infrastructure which supplies millions of people across Ukraine with drinking water, with electricity, with gas to keep from freezing to death, these aren’t military targets; they are places where civilians work and families live.

5. Isabelle Demeestere:

   This is an important breakthrough in the field because children are the patients who are most likely to benefit ... in the future, when they are diagnosed with diseases that require treatment that can destroy ovarian function, freezing ovarian tissue is the only ... option for preserving their fertility.

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