freeze vs heat

freeze

verb
  • To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. 

  • To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize. 

  • To prevent from showing any visible change. 

  • Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase. 

  • To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets 

  • Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. 

  • To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. 

  • (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning). 

  • To cause someone to become motionless. 

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

  • To be affected by extreme cold. 

  • (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc. 

noun
  • A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out. 

  • A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc. 

  • A period of intensely cold weather. 

  • A halt of a regular operation. 

  • The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs. 

heat

verb
  • To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). 

  • To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions. 

  • To arouse, to excite (sexually). 

  • To become hotter. 

  • To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. 

noun
  • A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus. 

  • A hot spell. 

  • The output of a heating system. 

  • An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth. 

  • One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further. 

  • The condition or quality of being hot. 

  • Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building. 

  • A period of intensity, particularly of emotion. 

  • A fastball. 

  • An undesirable amount of attention. 

  • A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race 

  • A violent action unintermitted; a single effort. 

  • A stage in a competition, not necessarily a sporting one; a round. 

  • In omegaverse fiction, a cyclical period in which omegas experience an intense, sometimes irresistible biological urge to mate. 

  • One or more firearms. 

  • Thermal energy. 

  • The police. 

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