cool
Noun · Verb · AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Noun (2)
- the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature“the cool of early morning”
- great coolness and composure under strain“keep your cool”Synonyms: aplombassurednesspoisesang-froid
Verb (3)
Adjective (6)
- neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat“a cool autumn day”“a cool room”“cool summer dresses”“cool drinks”“a cool breeze”
- marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional“play it cool”“keep cool”“stayed coolheaded in the crisis”“the most nerveless winner in the history of the tournament”Synonyms: coolheadednerveless
- (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets“cool greens and blues and violets”
- psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike“relations were cool and polite”“a cool reception”“cool to the idea of higher taxes”
- (used of a number or sum) without exaggeration or qualification“a cool million bucks”
- fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept“he's a cool dude”“that's cool”“Mary's dress is really cool”“it's not cool to arrive at a party too early”
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness. [1913 Webster]
Fanned with cool winds.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
2.Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater. [1913 Webster]
For a patriot, too cool.— Goldsmith.[1913 Webster]
3.Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress. [1913 Webster]
4.Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner. [1913 Webster]
5.Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior. [1913 Webster]
Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.— Hawthorne.[1913 Webster]
6.Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount. [1913 Webster]
He had lost a cool hundred.— Fielding.[1913 Webster]
Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.— Dickens.
Syn: Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent. [1913 Webster]
1.To become less hot; to lose heat. [1913 Webster]
I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
2.To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate. [1913 Webster]
I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I should cool.— Congreve.[1913 Webster]
1.To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water. [1913 Webster]
Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.— Luke xvi. 24.[1913 Webster]
2.To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate. [1913 Webster]
We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
To cool the heels, to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.] --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<language> (CooL) An object-oriented language from the ITHACA Esprit project that combines C-based languages with database technology.
(1995-03-15)
<language> 1. Concurrent Object-Oriented Language.
2.CLIPS Object-Oriented Language?
3.A C++ class library developed at Texas Instruments that defines containers like Vectors, List, Hash_Table, etc. COOL has a shallow hierarchy with no common base class. The functionality is close to Common Lisp data structures (like libg++). Templates have a syntax like Cfront and g++ and are preprocessed by a special 'cpp' distributed with COOL and GECOOL.
JCOOL is a version with real C++ templates.
(1992-08-05)