[syn: cool, coolheaded, nerveless]
3. (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets;
- Example: "cool greens and blues and violets"
4. psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike;
- Example: "relations were cool and polite"
- Example: "a cool reception"
- Example: "cool to the idea of higher taxes"
5. (used of a number or sum) without exaggeration or qualification;
- Example: "a cool million bucks"
6. fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept;
- Example: "he's a cool dude"
- Example: "that's cool"
- Example: "Mary's dress is really cool"
- Example: "it's not cool to arrive at a party too early"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cool \Cool\, a. [Compar. Cooler; superl. Coolest.] [AS.
c[=o]l; akin to D. koel, G. k["u]hl, OHG. chouli, Dan.
k["o]lig, Sw. kylig, also to AS. calan to be cold, Icel.
kala. See Cold, and cf. Chill.]
1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth;
producing or promoting coolness.
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Fanned with cool winds. --Milton.
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2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty;
deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed;
dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool
debater.
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For a patriot, too cool. --Goldsmith.
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3. Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
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4. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as,
a cool manner.
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5. Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of
minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully;
presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
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Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
--Hawthorne.
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6. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money,
commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the
amount.
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He had lost a cool hundred. --Fielding.
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Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket.
--Dickens.
Syn: Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed;
repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cool \Cool\, v. i.
1. To become less hot; to lose heat.
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I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus,
the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool. --Shak.
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2. To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more
moderate.
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I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I
should cool. --Congreve.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cool \Cool\, n.
A moderate state of cold; coolness; -- said of the
temperature of the air between hot and cold; as, the cool of
the day; the cool of the morning or evening.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cool \Cool\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cooled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Cooling.]
1. To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as,
ice cools water.
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Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger
in water, and cool my tongue. --Luke xvi.
24.
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2. To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as
passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
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We have reason to cool our raging motions, our
carnal stings, our unbitted lusts. --Shak.
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To cool the heels, to dance attendance; to wait, as for
admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.] --Dryden.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cool
adj 1: neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat; "a
cool autumn day"; "a cool room"; "cool summer dresses";
"cool drinks"; "a cool breeze" [ant: warm]
2: marked by calm self-control (especially in trying
circumstances); unemotional; "play it cool"; "keep cool";
"stayed coolheaded in the crisis"; "the most nerveless winner
in the history of the tournament" [syn: cool, coolheaded,
nerveless]
3: (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially
of greens and blues and violets; "cool greens and blues and
violets" [ant: warm]
4: psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or
unresponsive or showing dislike; "relations were cool and
polite"; "a cool reception"; "cool to the idea of higher
taxes" [ant: warm]
5: (used of a number or sum) without exaggeration or
qualification; "a cool million bucks"
6: fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or
socially adept; "he's a cool dude"; "that's cool"; "Mary's
dress is really cool"; "it's not cool to arrive at a party
too early"
n 1: the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature;
"the cool of early morning"
2: great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool"
[syn: aplomb, assuredness, cool, poise, sang-froid]
v 1: make cool or cooler; "Chill the food" [syn: cool,
chill, cool down] [ant: heat, heat up]
2: loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the
thunderstorm" [syn: cool, chill, cool down] [ant:
heat, heat up, hot up]
3: lose intensity; "His enthusiasm cooled considerably" [syn:
cool, cool off, cool down]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
Combined object-oriented Language
CooL
(CooL) An object-oriented language from the ITHACA
Esprit
project that combines C-based languages with database technology.
(1995-03-15)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
COOL
1. Concurrent Object-Oriented Language.
2. CLIPS Object-Oriented Language?
3. A C++ class library developed at Texas Instruments that
defines
containers like Vectors, List, Hash_Table, etc. COOL has a
shallow
hierarchy with no common base class. The functionality is close to
Common
Lisp data structures (like libg++). Templates have a syntax
like
Cfront and g++ and are preprocessed by a special 'cpp'
distributed with
COOL and GECOOL.
JCOOL is a version with real C++ templates.
(1992-08-05)