chill /ˈʧɪl/
 寒冷,寒意,失意(a.)寒冷的,冷漠的(vt.)使寒心,冷凍(vi.)變冷


 chill /ˈʧɪl/ 名詞
 寒戰,受寒


 Chill n.
 1. A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. “[A] wintry chill.”
 2. Med. A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.
 3. A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
 4. An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
 5. The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
 Chill and fever, fever and ague.


 Chill, a.
 1. Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
    Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill.   --Milton.
 2. Affected by cold. “My veins are chill.”
 3. Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
 4. Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.


 Chill, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chilled p. pr. & vb. n. Chilling.]
 1. To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.
    When winter chilled the day.   --Goldsmith.
 2. To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.
    Every thought on God chills the gayety of his spirits.   --Rogers.
 3. Metal. To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.


 Chill, v. i. Metal. To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.

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 chill
      adj : uncomfortably cool; "a chill wind"; "chilly weather" [syn: chilly]
      n 1: coldness due to a cold environment [syn: iciness, gelidity]
      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]
      v 1: depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender
           chilled the soldiers"
      2: make cool or cooler; "Chill the food" [syn: cool, {cool
         down] [ant: heat]
      3: loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the
         thunderstorm" [syn: cool, cool down] [ant: heat]