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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid;
[syn: freeze, freezing]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Freeze \Freeze\, v. i. [imp. Froze (fr[=o]z); p. p. Frozen (fr[=o]"z'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Freezing.] [OE. fresen, freosen, AS. fre['o]san; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushv[=a] ice, prush to spirt. ? 18. Cf. Frost.] 1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body. [1913 Webster] Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40[deg] below zero. [1913 Webster] 2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins. [1913 Webster] To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Freezing \Freez"ing\, a. Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner. -- Frrez"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster] Freezing machine. See Ice machine, under Ice. Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold. Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezing point is at 32[deg] Fahr., and at 0[deg] Centigrade. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

freezing n 1: the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid [syn: freeze, freezing]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

124 Moby Thesaurus words for "freezing": Siberian, adiabatic absorption, adiabatic demagnetization, adiabatic expansion, air conditioning, air cooling, algid, algific, anhydration, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, blast freezing, blast-freezing, bleak, boreal, bottling, brining, brisk, brumal, canning, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, congealing, congealment, congelation, cooling, corning, crisp, cryogenics, curing, cutting, deep freezing, dehydration, dehydrofreezing, desiccation, dry-curing, drying, electric refrigeration, embalming, evaporation, food freezing, freezable, freeze-drying, freezing cold, frigid, frigorific, frosty, frozen, fuming, gas refrigeration, gelid, glaciable, glacial, glaciation, glacification, hibernal, hiemal, hyperboreal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, infrigidation, irradiation, jerking, keen, marination, mechanical refrigeration, mummification, nipping, nippy, numbing, penetrating, perishing, pickling, piercing, pinching, polar, potting, quick freezing, quick-freezing, raw, reduction of temperature, refreezing, refrigerant, refrigeration, refrigerative, refrigeratory, regelation, rigorous, salting, seasoning, severe, sharp, sharp freezing, sharp-freezing, shivering, shivery, sleety, slushy, smoking, snappy, stone-cold, stuffing, subzero, super-cooling, supercooled, taxidermy, tinning, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry