Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Extremely cold.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Cold as ice; extremely cold.
- In pathology, experiencing a morbid sensation of cold, compared by the patient to that which would be produced by the application of ice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective as cold as ice; extremely cold.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective As
cold asice ; very cold. - adjective Without
emotion ;distant .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective as cold as ice
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was Sadat who made peace with Israel, which Mubarak inherited, transforming it into an ice-cold peace.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: How Israel Is Blowing the Arab Spring Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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It was Sadat who made peace with Israel, which Mubarak inherited, transforming it into an ice-cold peace.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: How Israel Is Blowing the Arab Spring Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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So if we fill the tank up or the body up with ice-cold saline and drop the body temperature, then the body doesn't require as much blood; it doesn't require delivery of oxygen to the tissues because the metabolic rate of the body goes down fairly dramatically.
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It was Sadat who made peace with Israel, which Mubarak inherited, transforming it into an ice-cold peace.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: How Israel Is Blowing the Arab Spring Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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It was Sadat who made peace with Israel, which Mubarak inherited, transforming it into an ice-cold peace.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: How Israel Is Blowing the Arab Spring Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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So if we fill the tank up or the body up with ice-cold saline and drop the body temperature, then the body doesn't require as much blood; it doesn't require delivery of oxygen to the tissues because the metabolic rate of the body goes down fairly dramatically.
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For Moses, its an ice-cold mystery he just cant outrun, even with the help of psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis.
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A wave of ice-cold terror hit me as my eyes rapidly flicked back and forth on the river, searching for Buhodu.
Master of Mirrors Amanda Marrone 2011
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So if we fill the tank up or the body up with ice-cold saline and drop the body temperature, then the body doesn't require as much blood; it doesn't require delivery of oxygen to the tissues because the metabolic rate of the body goes down fairly dramatically.
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It was Sadat who made peace with Israel, which Mubarak inherited, transforming it into an ice-cold peace.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: How Israel Is Blowing the Arab Spring Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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