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# frost

«frost» in Mova's school dictionary: **Thin white ice crystals that form on grass, cars and…** — 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

noun (frost — uncountable; a frost, frosts); verb (frost, frosts, frosted, frosting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Thin white ice crystals that form on grass, cars and windows when the air is below freezing, especially on cold clear nights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frost/#m1)

2) Weather cold enough to freeze water (a hard frost). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frost/#m2)

3) To cover with frost or become covered with it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frost/#m3)

4) (US) To put icing on a cake (frosting = icing). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frost/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In science, frost forms when water vapour in the air touches a very cold surface and turns straight into ice crystals; it is part of the water cycle and weather. In everyday life: scraping frost off car windows, frosty grass at playtime. In safety: frosty paths and roads are slippery; frost can damage plants (gardeners protect them). Phrases: hard frost, first frost, frosty (adjective), frostbite, Jack Frost (a make-believe character).

### examples

- There was frost on the grass this morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frost/#x1)
- Dad scraped the frost off the car window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frost/#x2)
- Frost makes beautiful patterns on the glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frost/#x3)
- Be careful — the path is slippery with frost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frost/#x4)
- The first frost killed the tomato plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frost/#x5)
- Frost forms on clear, cold nights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frost/#x6)
- We frosted the cupcakes with pink icing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frost/#x7)
- It certainly was a dreadfully hard frost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/frost/#x8)

### note

«Frost» (uncountable: there was frost) but «a hard frost» or «frosts». In the USA «frosting» = icing on a cake. Frostbite is an injury to fingers, toes, nose or ears from extreme cold.

### In the corpora

- [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/)
- [Gritters spread salt before a frost because salty water freezes at a lower temperature than plain water, so ice forms less easily.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/43-olympiad-transport-building-and-energy/10/)
- [diDUS is a loving word for grandad, DId is shorter, and DId MorOz is Grandfather Frost, an old New Year figure.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/5-how-old-where-from-meet-the-family/15/)
- [In very hard frost road salt stops working, because even salty water freezes when it is cold enough.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/20-reasoning-water-and-matter/11/)
- [Wind, rain, ice and frost slowly break rocks into smaller pieces; this is called weathering.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/43-landforms/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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