Freezing machine. See Ice machine, under Ice. -- Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold. -- Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezing point is at 32

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THESAURUS

freezing

Siberian, adiabatic absorption, adiabatic demagnetization, adiabatic expansion, air conditioning, air cooling, algid, algific, anhydration, arctic, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, blast freezing, blast-freezing, bleak, boreal, bottling, brining, brisk, brumal, canning, chill, chilling, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, congealing, congealment, congelation, cooling, corning, crisp, cryogenics, curing, cutting, deep freezing, dehydration, dehydrofreezing, desiccation, dry-curing, drying, electric refrigeration, embalming, evaporation, food freezing, freezable, freeze-drying, freezing cold, frigid, frigorific, frosty, frozen, fuming, gas refrigeration, gelid, glaciable, glacial, glaciation, glacification, hibernal, hiemal, hyperboreal, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, inclement, infrigidation, irradiation, jerking, keen, marination, mechanical refrigeration, mummification, nipping, nippy, numbing, penetrating, perishing, pickling, piercing, pinching, polar, potting, quick freezing, quick-freezing, raw, reduction of temperature, refreezing, refrigerant, refrigeration, refrigerative, refrigeratory, regelation, rigorous, salting, seasoning, severe, sharp, sharp freezing, sharp-freezing, shivering, shivery, sleety, slushy, smoking, snappy, stone-cold, stuffing, subzero, super-cooling, supercooled, taxidermy, tinning, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry

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freezing

Cold

N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.

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