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FROST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Frost mean?
• FROST (noun)
The noun FROST has 4 senses:
1. ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
2. weather cold enough to cause freezing
3. the formation of frost or ice on a surface
4. United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)
Familiarity information: FROST used as a noun is uncommon.
• FROST (verb)
The verb FROST has 4 senses:
2. provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance
Familiarity information: FROST used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("frost" is a kind of...):
ice; water ice (water frozen in the solid state)
Derivation:
frost (cover with frost)
frosty (covered with frost)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Weather cold enough to cause freezing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Synonyms:
freeze; frost
Hypernyms ("frost" is a kind of...):
cold weather (a period of unusually cold weather)
Derivation:
frost (damage by frost)
frosty (pleasantly cold and invigorating)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The formation of frost or ice on a surface
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
frost; icing
Hypernyms ("frost" is a kind of...):
freeze; freezing (the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid)
Derivation:
frost (cover with frost)
frosty (covered with frost)
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Frost; Robert Frost; Robert Lee Frost
Instance hypernyms:
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Derivation:
Frostian (of or relating to or in the manner of Robert Frost)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: frosted
Past participle: frosted
-ing form: frosting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Decorate with frosting
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
frost; ice
Context example:
frost a cake
Hypernyms (to "frost" is one way to...):
cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)
Domain category:
cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
frosting (a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
she frosts her hair
Hypernyms (to "frost" is one way to...):
cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Cover with frost
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Context example:
ice crystals frosted the glass
Hypernyms (to "frost" is one way to...):
cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
frost (the formation of frost or ice on a surface)
frost (ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside))
Sense 4
Meaning:
Damage by frost
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown
Hypernyms (to "frost" is one way to...):
damage (inflict damage upon)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Derivation:
frost (weather cold enough to cause freezing)
Context examples
Its wild water defied the frost, and it was in the eddies only and in the quiet places that the ice held at all.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Mrs. Henry Spiker was this lady's name; and her husband was there too: so cold a man, that his head, instead of being grey, seemed to be sprinkled with hoar-frost.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The feel of spring was in the air, the feel of growing life under the snow, of sap ascending in the trees, of buds bursting the shackles of the frost.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Leaving the pails standing in the trail, he walked up and down, rapidly, to keep from freezing, for the frost bit into the flesh like fire.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Another may be slides due to the accumulating weight of seasonal frost buildup on steep slopes.
(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)
But again the frost came and made the paths of the sea secure.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; and it was plain from the first that my poor father was little likely to see the spring.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I tried here and tried there, but there were lots of other chaps on the same lay as myself, and it was a perfect frost for a long time.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I opened the glass-door in the breakfast-room: the shrubbery was quite still: the black frost reigned, unbroken by sun or breeze, through the grounds.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It had been a frosty morning, to be sure, a sharp frost, which hardly one woman in a thousand could stand the test of.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
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