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# cool

«cool» in Mova's school dictionary: **A little cold, pleasantly not warm: "a cool breeze"** — 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 (cool, cooler, coolest); verb (cool, cools, cooled, cooling); noun (the cool; keep your cool); interjection (Cool!)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A little cold, pleasantly not warm: "a cool breeze". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cool/#m1)

2) Calm, not upset: "Stay cool." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cool/#m2)

3) (Informal) Great, fashionable, good: "That's cool!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cool/#m3)

4) As a verb, to make or become colder: "Let the cake cool." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cool/#m4)

5) Not friendly: "a cool reply". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cool/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science, cooling means losing heat; hot things cool down until they match the room; sweating cools the body. In everyday life: let hot food cool before eating; cool a burn under cool running water for 20 minutes. Slang "cool" means great. Phrases: cool down, cool off, keep your cool, cool it.

### examples

- The evening air is cool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cool/#x1)
- Let the soup cool before you eat it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cool/#x2)
- Run cool water over a burn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cool/#x3)
- Stay cool and don't panic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cool/#x4)
- Your new bike is so cool! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cool/#x5)
- Sweat helps the body cool down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cool/#x6)
- It was a cool autumn morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cool/#x7)
- He lost his cool and shouted. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cool/#x8)
- "To cool my porridge," said the Man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cool/#x9)

### note

Cool is less cold than cold. For burns, use cool water, not ice. "Cool" as slang is informal; in a school report use "great" or "excellent".

### In the corpora

- [Running chatbots in data centres uses a lot of electricity, and cooling the computers often uses water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/3-sounding-right-and-being-right/13/)
- [At parties dancing is about fun, not looking cool, and joining a group is the easiest way in.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/15/)
- [Elephant ears are full of blood vessels, and flapping them cools the blood; African elephants have much bigger ears than Asian elephants.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/22-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory/12/)
- [Warmer sand gives more girl hatchlings and cooler sand more boys, and bright beach lights can lead hatchlings the wrong way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/31-turtles-and-tortoises/13/)
- [Caimans and crocodiles bask with their mouths open to let heat escape and cool down; it is not a threat or a yawn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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