1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Cooling

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. Present participle of cool.

n. a decrease in temperature

n. refrigeration

adj. that cools

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Adapted to cool and refresh: as, a cooling drink.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a mechanism for keeping something cool

n. the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature

Word Usage

"The nutballs who crow that any cooling anywhere overturns entirely the blame placed on AGW for climate change, both need to take a beginners course in statistics and probability, and need to consider the current AGW-masked _cooling cycle_, which, if it didn't erupt somewhere occasionally, would be behaving very strangely indeed. xanthian."

Antonym

heating

Cross Reference

cooling card

Form

cooling curve cooling tower cooling board cooling-off period cooling rack cooling pond

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

refrigerative refrigerating refrigeratory refrigerant frigorific freezing defervescent

Verb Stem

cool

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

drooling dueling fooling fueling fuelling grueling pooling refueling retooling ruling