FREEZING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freezing mean? 

• FREEZING (noun)
  The noun FREEZING has 1 sense:

1. the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid

  Familiarity information: FREEZING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREEZING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

freeze; freezing

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

chilling; cooling; temperature reduction (the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature)

phase change; phase transition; physical change; state change (a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "freezing"):

freeze-drying; lyophilisation; lyophilization (a method of drying food or blood plasma or pharmaceuticals or tissue without destroying their physical structure; material is frozen and then warmed in a vacuum so that the ice sublimes)

frost; icing (the formation of frost or ice on a surface)

Derivation:

freeze (change to ice)

freeze (cause to freeze)

freeze (change from a liquid to a solid when cold)

freeze (be very cold, below the freezing point)

 Context examples 

This freezing, shadowy world could have a temperature of –170 ℃, making it inhospitable for life as we know it.

(Super-Earth Discovered Around Barnard's Star, ESO)

When the temperature drops below freezing, snow and ice often follow.

(Drizzle at sub-zero temps recorded in Antarctica, National Science Foundation)

Belagenpumatucel-L is prepared by transfecting allogeneic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cells with a plasmid containing a TGF-beta2 antisense transgene, expanding the cells, and then irradiating and freezing them.

(Belagenpumatucel-L, NCI Thesaurus)

This freezing process would have important implications for the habitability of Titan's ocean, as it would limit the ability of materials to exchange between the surface and the ocean.

(Ocean on Saturn moon could be as salty as the Dead Sea, NASA)

The study reveals the freezing effects of Jupiter’s shadow during daily eclipses on the moon’s volcanic gases.

(New Research Reveals Fluctuating Atmosphere of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon, NASA)

The mechanisms that might have prevented Enceladus' ocean from freezing remain a mystery.

(Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus, NASA)

The removal of a body part, pathway, or function by freezing the desired entity.

(Cryoablation, NCI Thesaurus)

A device designed to generate a liquid environment that is below the freezing point of normal biological tissues (usually -50 to -70 degrees celsius).

(Cryobath, NCI Thesaurus)

Frostbite is an injury to the body that is caused by freezing.

(Frostbite, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Words used to describe very cold pain included 'like ice' and 'freezing.'

(NPS - Tell Us How Cold Your Pain Feels, NCI Thesaurus)