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# freezing

«freezing» in Mova's school dictionary: **very cold** — 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 (freezing); verb form (freeze, freezes, froze, frozen, freezing); noun (freezing, freezing point)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Freezing means very cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezing/#m1)

2) As a verb form, freezing means turning from a liquid into a solid because it gets cold, like water turning into ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezing/#m2)

3) Freezing point is the temperature at which a liquid becomes solid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezing/#m3)

4) Freezing can mean suddenly stopping still, like when you are scared. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezing/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science, water freezes at 0 °C (32 °F); below freezing, puddles turn to ice and roads get icy. Freezing is the opposite of melting and is a reversible change. In everyday life, «I'm freezing!» means I'm very cold; wrap up warm, wear a hat and gloves. In safety, freezing weather can cause frostbite and slippery paths. Phrases: freezing cold, below freezing, freezing point, freezing fog.

### examples

- It's freezing outside; put on your coat! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezing/#x1)
- Water starts freezing at zero degrees Celsius. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezing/#x2)
- The temperature dropped below freezing last night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezing/#x3)
- My hands are freezing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezing/#x4)
- We are freezing the leftover soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezing/#x5)
- The pond is freezing over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezing/#x6)
- She stood freezing to the spot when she saw the snake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezing/#x7)
- In freezing weather, watch out for ice on the path. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezing/#x8)
- Winter one year set in early, and it was freezing hard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezing/#x9)

### note

Freeze is irregular: freeze, froze, frozen. «Freezing» = very cold, a bit stronger than «cold». In temperature problems, numbers below 0 °C are negative: −5 °C is 5 degrees below freezing.

### In the corpora

- [Ducks' feet stay just above freezing on ice because warm blood flowing in heats the cold blood coming back.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/16/)
- [The water is freezing; the Mole sinks, comes up spluttering, sinks again — until a firm paw grabs his neck.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/6/)
- [His toes are freezing, and he dreams that his bedclothes have run downstairs to the kitchen fire to get warm.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/61-willows-ch10-part1-the-barge-woman/1/)
- [Frost forms when water vapour turns straight into ice on a surface below freezing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/5-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing/13/)
- [Melting, freezing, boiling and condensing are reversible changes, because the molecules stay the same.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/9-changes-you-can-and-cannot-undo/5/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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