COOLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cooler mean? 

• COOLER (noun)
  The noun COOLER has 3 senses:

1. a refrigerator for cooling liquids

2. an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice

3. a cell for violent prisoners

  Familiarity information: COOLER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COOLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A refrigerator for cooling liquids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cooler; ice chest

Hypernyms ("cooler" is a kind of...):

icebox; refrigerator (white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures)

Derivation:

cool (make cool or cooler)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cooler" is a kind of...):

beverage; drink; drinkable; potable (any liquid suitable for drinking)

Derivation:

cool (make cool or cooler)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A cell for violent prisoners

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cooler; tank

Hypernyms ("cooler" is a kind of...):

cell; jail cell; prison cell (a room where a prisoner is kept)

 Context examples 

The nighttime side is more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit cooler, which allows water vapor and clouds to form.

(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)

The data also hint at the presence of an even cooler outer dust belt and may indicate the presence of an elaborate planetary system.

(ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Nearest Star, ESO)

The research suggests that Arctic thermokarst lakes are "net climate coolers" when observed over longer, millennial, time scales.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)

Instead, they observed that the giant planet's atmosphere is cooler at higher altitudes, which is contrary to what was expected.

(Hubble Observes Exoplanet that Snows Sunscreen, NASA)

The M-type dwarf star is about 40% smaller than the Sun in both size and mass, and it has a surface temperature about one-third cooler than the Sun’s.

(NASA’s TESS Mission Scores ‘Hat Trick’ With 3 New Worlds, NASA)

The new worlds orbit a star named GJ 357, an M-type dwarf about one-third the Sun’s mass and size and about 40% cooler that our star.

(Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World, NASA)

Recent observations have resolved a larger pocket of cooler dust that may be indirectly scattering the light from the central stars.

(Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed 'Nasty', NASA)

They darken and appear to flow down steep slopes during warm seasons, and then fade in cooler seasons.

(NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars, NASA)

A Harvard study has found that parts of the deep Pacific may be getting cooler as the result of a climate phenomenon that occurred hundreds of years ago.

(Bottom of Pacific Found to Be Getting Colder, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It also orbits a red-dwarf star, far smaller and cooler than our sun.

(ESO Discovers Earth-Size Planet in Habitable Zone of Nearest Star, NASA)