| cold turkey | complete and abrupt withdrawal of all addictive drugs or anything else on which you have become dependent, he quit smoking cold turkey, she quit her job cold turkey |
| cold storage | refrigerated storage for preservation |
| over-the-shoulder bombing | a special case of loft bombing in which the bomb is released past the vertical so it is tossed back to the target |
snub
cut cold shoulder | a refusal to recognize someone you know, the snub was clearly intentional |
| cold cathode | a cathode that is a source of electrons without being heated |
cold chisel
set chisel | narrow chisel made of steel, used to cut stone or bricks |
cold cream
coldcream
face cream
vanishing cream | a cream used cosmetically (mostly by women) for softening and cleaning the skin |
| cold frame | protective covering consisting of a wooden frame with a glass top in which small plants are protected from the cold |
| cold medicine | medicine intended to relieve the symptoms of the common cold |
| cold-water flat | an apartment without modern conveniences |
| hard shoulder | a paved strip beside a motorway (for stopping in emergencies) |
shoulder
berm | a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road, the car pulled off onto the shoulder |
| shoulder | the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder, an ornamental gold braid on the shoulder of his uniform |
| shoulder bag | a large handbag that can be carried by a strap looped over the shoulder |
shoulder board
shoulder mark | epaulets that indicate rank |
| shoulder holster | a holster worn over your shoulder so a gun can be concealed under your jacket |
| shoulder pad | protective garment consisting of a hard rounded pad worn by football players to protect their shoulders |
| shoulder patch | patch worn on the shoulder of a military uniform to indicate rank |
| strap shoulder strap | a band that goes over the shoulder and supports a garment or bag |
wood vise
woodworking vise
shoulder vise | a vise with jaws that are padded in order to hold lumber without denting it |
coldness
cold
low temperature
frigidity frigidness | the absence of heat, the coldness made our breath visible, come in out of the cold, cold is a vasoconstrictor |
scapula
shoulder blade
shoulder bone | either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings |
| shoulder | the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm |
shoulder shoulder joint
articulatio humeri | a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula |
shoulder girdle
pectoral arch | the bony arch formed by the collarbones and shoulder blades in humans |
cold
coldness | the sensation produced by low temperatures, he shivered from the cold, the cold helped clear his head |
| cold water | disparagement of a plan or hope or expectation, she poured cold water on the whole idea of going to Africa |
| shoulder flash | something worn on the shoulder of a military uniform as an emblem of a division etc. |
| cold turkey | a blunt expression of views, I told him cold turkey |
| cold comfort | very limited consolation or empathy, he told me that time heals all wounds but that was cold comfort to me |
| cold feet | timidity that prevents the continuation of a course of action, I was going to tell him but I got cold feet |
| cold cuts | sliced assorted cold meats |
| shoulder | a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg |
picnic ham
picnic shoulder | shoulder of a hog usually smoked |
cold cereal
dry cereal | a cereal that is not heated before serving |
| stuffed tomato cold stuffed tomato | tomato cases filled with various salad mixtures and served cold |
| cold duck | pink sparkling wine originally from Germany |
| cold fish | an aloof unemotional person |
| cold wave | a wave of unusually cold weather |
| cold weather | a period of unusually cold weather |
cold front
polar front | the front of an advancing mass of colder air |
ready cash
cold cash
ready money | money in the form of cash that is readily available, his wife was always a good source of ready cash, he paid cold cash for the TV set |
| cold fusion | nuclear fusion at or near room temperatures, claims to have discovered it are generally considered to have been mistaken |
| cold war | a state of political hostility between countries using means short of armed warfare |
| Cold War | a state of political hostility that existed from untilbetween countries led by the Soviet Union and countries led by the United States |
| cold storage | in a state of abeyance or postponement |
oral herpes
herpes labialis
cold sore
fever blister | caused by herpes simplex virus type (HSV-) |
cold
common cold | a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs), will they never find a cure for the common cold? |
| head cold | a common cold affecting the nasal passages and resulting in congestion and sneezing and headache |
dry gangrene
cold gangrene
mumification necrosis
mummification | (pathology) gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color |