Dictionary Definition
chill adj : uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind";
"chilly weather" [syn: chilly]
Noun
2 an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a
frisson of surprise shot through him" [syn: frisson, shiver, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle]
3 a sensation of cold that often marks the start
of an infection and the development of a fever [syn: shivering]
4 a sudden numbing dread [syn: pall]
Verb
1 depress or discourage; "The news of the city's
surrender chilled the soldiers"
3 loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after
the thunderstorm" [syn: cool, cool down]
[ant: heat]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
ċele.Pronunciation
- /tʃɪl/
- Rhymes with: -ɪl
Noun
Translations
a moderate but penetrating sense of cold
a sudden numbing fear or dread
- German: Schauer, Kälteschauer
Adjective
Translations
moderately cold or chilly
- Crimean Tatar: suvuq
- Finnish: kylmä, jäätävä
- German: kühler, kühlen
- Hebrew: קריר (qaryr) , קרירה (qrira)
Verb
- To lower the temperature of something; to
cool.
- Chill before serving.
- In the context of "transitive|metallurgy": To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- To become cold.
- In the wind he chilled quickly.
- In the context of "intransitive|metallurgy": To become hard by rapid cooling.
- To relax, lay back.
- Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.
- To smoke marijuana.
- On Friday night do you wanna chill?
Translations
to lower the temperature of something; to cool
- Finnish: viilentää, jäähdyttää
- German: abkühlen
- Italian: raffreddare
- Norwegian: avkjøle
to harden a metal surface by sudden cooling
- German: abkühlen, abschrecken
to become cold
- Finnish: jäähtyä, kylmentyä
- German: abkühlen
- Italian: raffreddarsi
- Norwegian: kjølne
to become hard by rapid cooling
- German: abkühlen, abschrecken
to relax, lay back
- Finnish: ottaa rennosti, chillata (slang)
- German: relaxen, chillen
- Italian: calmarsi, rilassarsi
- Norwegian: chille (slang)
Derived terms
Related terms
References
Middle English
Etymology
See ch-.Verb
chill- I will.
Norwegian
Verb
chill- Imperative of chille
Extensive Definition
Chill may refer to:
- Chill (role-playing game)
- CHILL programming language
- Chill (radio station), a British digital radio station
- Chill (song), a song by the Finnish rock band The Rasmus
- CHILL (library consortium), a consortium of health libraries in London
- Akhenaton (rapper), a French hip hop artist who uses Chill as one of his aliases
- Chill (video game), a Snowboarding video game for PlayStation One released by Eidos
- Chill (Beanie Baby), a Beanie Baby penguin produced by Ty, Inc. in 2008
- Chill out (music), a style of electronic music
- Chill (foundry), an object placed in a mold to (locally) increase the solidification rate of a casting
- Rigor (medicine) that occur during high fevers as a result of immune response to disease
- The Chill, a bandit group of hobgoblins in the computer game of Baldur's Gate
- Joe Chill, a character in the Batman series attributed with the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents.
- Chilling effect, a situation where speech or conduct is suppressed or limited by fear of penalization. Also known as "Libel chill".
- MC Chill, rapper and producer from hip hop group, Compton's Most Wanted.
chill in German: Chill
chill in French: Chill
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Laodiceanism, abscess, absolute zero, abstracted, ache, aching, affectless, ague, air-condition, air-cool,
algidity, aloof, aloofness, anemia, anesthesia, anesthetized, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, arctic, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, autism, autistic, backache, be cold, benumb, benumbed, bite, bitterness, bleakness, bleeding, blennorhea, blunt, bracing, briskness, cachexia, cachexy, catatonia, catatonic, chatter, chilblains, chilliness, chilling, chills, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold blood,
cold creeps, cold heart, cold shivers, cold water, cold-blooded,
coldhearted,
coldheartedness,
coldness, colic, constipation, convulsion, cool, coolish, coolness, coolth, coryza, coughing, creeps, crispness, cryogenics, cryology, cryopathy, cut, cyanosis, damp, dampen, damper, deadpan, decrease in
temperature, deflect,
deject, demoralize, depress, detachment, deter, determent, deterrent, diarrhea, didder, disaccordant, disaffect, disaffinity, discourage, discouragement, dishearten, disincline, disinterest, disinterested, disparage, dispassion, dispassionate, dispassionateness,
dispirit, distance, distant, distract, distress, dither, dithers, divert, dizziness, dropsy, drugged, duck bumps, dull, dullness, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaciation, emotional
deadness, emotionally dead, emotionless, emotionlessness,
enmity, fainting, fatigue, fervorlessness, fever, fibrillation, flu, flux, formal, freeze, freeze to death, freezing, freezing point,
fresh, freshen, freshness, frigid, frigidity, frost, frostbite, frosted, frostiness, frosty, frozen, gelid, gelidity, glacial, go through, goose
bumps, goose pimples, gooseflesh, grow cold,
growth, halfheartedness, have a
chill, have goose pimples, heartless, heartlessness, hemorrhage, high blood
pressure, horripilate, horripilation, hostility, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, ice, ice-cool, iciness, icterus, icy, immovability, immovable, impassibility, impassive, impassiveness, impassivity, inaccessibility,
inclemency, incompatibility,
incompatible,
incompatibleness,
indifference,
indifferent,
indifferentism,
indifferentness,
indigestion,
indispose, inexcitability, inexcitable, inflammation, influenza, infrigidate, inhospitable, inhospitality, inimical, inimicality, insensitive, insipidity, insomnia, insusceptible, intense
cold, invigorating,
itching, jaundice, keenness, kibe, la grippe, labored breathing,
lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of touch, lose heat, low
blood pressure, low temperature, lukewarmness, lumbago, marasmus, nasal discharge,
nausea, necrosis, neuterness, neutrality, neutralness, nip, nippiness, nippy, nonemotional, numb, numbed, numbing, objective, objectivity, obtuse, obtuseness, offishness, out of touch,
pain, paralysis, passionless, passionlessness,
penetrate, penetrating, perfunctoriness, perish
with cold, personal conflict, pierce, poker face, polar, pruritus, put off, quake, quench, quiver, rash, raw, rawness, refresh, refrigerate, remoteness, repel, reserved, rheum, rigor, sclerosis, seizure, self-absorbed,
self-absorption, severity, shake, sharp air, sharpness, shiver, shivering, shivers, shock, shudder, skin eruption, sneezing, solitary, sore, soulless, soullessness, spasm, spiritless, spiritlessness, standoffish, standoffishness,
stimulating,
straight face, strain,
strained, tabes, tachycardia, temperate, tense, tension, tepidness, the sniffles,
tremble, tumor, turn aside, turn away, turn
from, turn off, unaffectionate, unamiability, unamiable, unamicable, unapproachability,
uncompanionable,
uncordial, uncordiality, unemotional, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unfriendliness, unfriendly, ungenial, ungeniality, unharmonious, unimpassioned, unimpressibility,
unimpressionable,
unimpressionableness,
uninterested,
unloving, unpassionate, unpassionateness,
unresponding,
unresponsive,
unresponsiveness,
unsociability,
unsociable, unsusceptibility,
unsusceptible,
unsympathetic,
unsympatheticness,
untouchability,
untouchable, upset
stomach, vapidity,
ventilate, vertigo, vomiting, wasting, wean from, wet blanket,
wintry, withdrawal, withdrawn, withdrawnness, zeallessness