cools

[cool]

When the weather is cool, it's not quite cold but not warm either. When people are cool, they're mellow and in control.

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Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.

Noun
great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool"

Noun
the quality of being cool; "the cool of early morning"

Verb
loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"

Verb
lose intensity; "His enthusiasm cooled considerably"

Verb
make cool or cooler; "Chill the food"

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Adjective S.
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"

Adjective S.
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"

Adjective S.
used of a number or sum and meaning without exaggeration or qualification; "a cool million bucks"

Adjective
neither warm or very cold; giving relief from heat; "a cool autumn day"; "a cool room"; "cool summer dresses"; "cool drinks"; "a cool breeze"

Adjective
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"

Adjective
(color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets; "cool greens and blues and violets"


superl.
Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.

superl.
Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.

superl.
Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.

superl.
Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.

superl.
Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.

superl.
Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.

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.

v. t.
To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.

v. t.
To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.

v. i.
To become less hot; to lose heat.

v. i.
To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.


Cool

Cool , a. [Compar. Cooler ; superl. Coolest.] [AS. c'd3l; akin to D. koel, G. k'81hl, OHG. chouli, Dan. k'94lig, 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.
Fanned with cool winds.
2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.
For a patriot, too cool.
3. Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress. 4. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner. 5. Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable.
6. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
He had lost a cool hundred.
Leaving a cool thousand to Mr.Matthew Pocket.
Syn. -- Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.

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.

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.
Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.
2. To moderate the heat or excitement of; to allay, as passion of any kind; to calm; to moderate.
We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.
To cool the heels, to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. [Colloq.] Dryden.

Cool

Cool, v. i. 1. To become less hot; to lose heat.
I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool.
2. To lose the heat of excitement or passion; to become more moderate.
I will not give myself liberty to think, lest I should cool.

Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.

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.

To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.

To become less hot; to lose heat.

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Usage Examples

'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.

All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.

A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

All of a sudden, Hulk Hogan has become retro. Hulk Hogan has become cool again. So to come out and to hear how loud the fans are. To hear how loyal the fans are, it's truly overwhelming. I just can't believe I've been reborn in the WWE.

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

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Other Usage Examples

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.

All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore.

All the bands get along really well. That's one of the biggest things on a tour. It's great to get all these cool bands together, but if they don't get along it sucks.

A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

A couple days ago, I saw a lot of people tweeting, 'Oh, it's so cool 'Home' is being used in the Olympics!' We don't really get to watch much TV, man, with the concerts every night, but I wish I could have seen it. I really just found out through Twitter and my management texting me. I thought it was really awesome.

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