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# cold

«cold» in Mova's school dictionary: **Having a low temperature; not warm: "cold water"** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (cold, colder, coldest); noun (a cold, colds; the cold)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Having a low temperature; not warm: "cold water". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cold/#m1)

2) Feeling that your body is not warm enough: "I'm cold." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cold/#m2)

3) An illness that gives you a runny nose, sneezes and a sore throat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cold/#m3)

4) Not friendly or kind: "a cold look". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cold/#m4)

5) "The cold" means cold weather. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cold/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science, cold means low temperature: ice is cold, things cool down when heat leaves them; water freezes at 0 °C. In health: a cold is caused by germs (viruses), spread by sneezes and touch; wash hands. In safety: dress warmly in cold weather. Phrases: catch a cold, cold weather, ice-cold, out in the cold, cold-blooded.

### examples

- It is cold outside, so wear a coat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cold/#x1)
- I caught a cold and stayed home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cold/#x2)
- The milk is in the cold fridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cold/#x3)
- Cold air sinks and warm air rises. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cold/#x4)
- Cover your mouth when you sneeze with a cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cold/#x5)
- Water turns to ice when it gets very cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cold/#x6)
- She gave me a cold look. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cold/#x7)
- Snakes are cold-blooded animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cold/#x8)
- Oh, how cold the water is! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cold/#x9)

### note

"A cold" (illness) is countable; "the cold" (weather) is not. Myth: going out with wet hair does not give you a cold; germs do. Cold is not a thing that flows in — heat flows out. Comparatives: colder, coldest. Lower temperature numbers mean colder.

### In the corpora

- [Not every illness needs medicine: a cold gets better on its own.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/5/)
- [Antibiotics kill bacteria but do nothing against colds, which are caused by viruses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/20/)
- [Scene: at Christmas dinner in Leeds, Grandad and Auntie Jo argue about the government until the gravy goes cold.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/4/)
- [The coldest temperature ever measured at a weather station was about minus 89 degrees Celsius, at Vostok Station in Antarctica in 1983.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/7-antarctica/12/)
- [Bumblebees warm up by shivering their flight muscles, so they can fly on cold spring mornings when honeybees cannot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cold» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cold/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.