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Adjective
/CHil/,
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chills, plural;
  1. Chilly
    • - the chill gray dawn
    • - the chill winds of public censure
Verb
  1. Make (someone) cold
    • - I'm chilled to the bone
  2. Cool (food or drink) in a refrigerator
    • - chilled white wine
  3. Horrify or frighten (someone)
    • - the city was chilled by the violence
    • - a chilling account of the prisoners' fate
  4. Calm down and relax
    • - I can lean back and chill
    • - chill out, okay?
  5. Pass time without a particular aim or purpose, esp. with other people
    • - we had a week at home and we chilled out
Noun
  1. A moderate but unpleasant coldness
    • - there was a chill in the air
  2. A lowered body temperature, often accompanied by shivering
    • - the disease begins abruptly with chills, headaches, and dizziness
  3. A feverish cold

  4. A coldness of manner
    • - a long-term chill in relations could hurt commerce
  5. A depressing influence
    • - his statements have cast a chill over this whole country
  6. A sudden and powerful unpleasant feeling, esp. of fear
    • - his words sent a chill of apprehension down my spine
  7. A metal mold or part of a mold, often cooled, designed to ensure rapid or even cooling of metal during casting


  1. coldness due to a cold environment
  2. depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers"
  3. cool: make cool or cooler; "Chill the food"
  4. frisson: an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him"
  5. a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
  6. cool: loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"
  7. In computing, CHILL (an acronym for CCITT High Level Language) is a procedural programming language designed for use in telecommunications switches (the hardware used inside telephone exchanges). The language is still used for legacy systems in some telecommunication companies.
  8. A chill is an object used to promote solidification in a specific portion of a metal casting mold. Normally the metal in the mold cools at a certain rate relative to thickness of the casting. ...
  9. Chill is an award-winning 2007 horror film written and directed by Serge Rudnunsky that stars Thomas Calabro, Ashley Laurence, and James Russo.
  10. The Consortium of Independent Health Information Libraries in London (CHILL) is an association of libraries in the greater London area specializing in information on health and medicine.
  11. Chill is a British digital radio station dedicated to chill out, ambient and trip-hop music.
  12. Chill is a role-playing game that captures the feel of 20th-century horror films. Players take on the role of envoys, members of a secret organization known as S.A.V.E. that tracks down and eliminates evil in the world.
  13. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness; A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness: close the ...
  14. (chilling) Becoming cold; Causing mild fear
  15. (chillness) the state of being chilly
  16. (Chilled) The result of a process in which fish is thoroughly cooled to a temperature approaching that of melting ice.
  17. (Chilled) A food that has been refrigerated, usually at temperatures of 30 to 40*F(-1 to +4*C).
  18. (Chilled) Strained through ice.
  19. (Chilling) The process of applying refrigeration in moderation so as to achieve cooling without freezing.
  20. (chilling) In strawberries, exposure to temperatures low enough to induce the production of food reserves needed to support vigorous vegetative growth.
  21. The chilling hours a particular clone needs before over-wintering buds will open.
  22. (Chills) feelings of coldness accompanied by shivering. Chills may develop after exposure to a cold environment or may accompany a fever.
  23. (Chills) it is an extreme, involuntary muscle contraction with characteristic paroxysms of violent shivering and teeth chattering. It is commonly associated with fever.
  24. A square shaft that connects an outside handle to an inside lock set or night latch
  25. A device used to cool an isolated area of a mold.