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Definition of Freeze

Freeze

A frieze.

To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.

To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.

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Freeze Quotations

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl S. Buck

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.
Albert Pike

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'
Jim Carrey

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.
Edward de Bono

I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I could harvest the eggs and have a biological child through a surrogate.
Fran Drescher

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.
Herman Kahn

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.
Shimon Peres

The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
Andy Goldsworthy

And I think we need a combination of a freeze, potentially, and also we need to sit down with the - with the banking industry and talk to them about ways in which we can help them be able to work those mortgages out, because it's absolutely imperative that we keep people in their homes.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150 billion spent on more government programs; monies being created to direct and what kind of jobs that Washington thinks ought to be created. Come on. I mean there is a government that can help, and the government can also hurt.
Eric Cantor

Alinsky's 1971 book, "Rules for Radicals," is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
Karl Rove

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.
Sam Mendes

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
June Jordan

And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done.
Eli Wallach

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.
Jennifer Connelly

I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.
Anthony Quinn

We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.
Lennart Nilsson

I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
Alan Cranston

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.
Louis MacNeice

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.
Tim Russert

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.
Robert Johnson

There are tons of people I'd like to freeze for all of eternity, but we won't go into that!
Holly Marie Combs

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Freeze Translations

freeze in Afrikaans is vries
freeze in Danish is fryse
freeze in Dutch is vriezen
freeze in Finnish is pakastaa
freeze in German is frieren, einfrieren, einfrieren
freeze in Italian is aver freddo
freeze in Latin is congelo
freeze in Norwegian is fryse, stivne
freeze in Spanish is congelar, helar
freeze in Swedish is frysa

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