English-French translations for cold

• froid
  Aujourd'hui, le Caucase est aux avant-postes de la nouvelle guerre froide, la guerre froide localisée. Today the Caucasus is the front line of the new cold war, the localised cold war.
  C'est un résultat néfaste de la guerre froide. It is a hangover from the Cold War.
  Le virus touche les animaux à sang froid. The virus harms cold-blooded animals.
• rhume
  Il faut bien soigner ces rhumes d' été. These summer colds need a lot of attention.
  Même le nombre de personnes mourant d’un simple rhume est plus élevé que cela! Even the number of people dying from a simple cold is much larger that that!
  Je vous prie de m’excuser, mais je dois quitter l’Assemblée prématurément: je crois que j’ai attrapé un rhume à Strasbourg. I apologise in advance for having to leave early: I think I have caught a Strasbourg cold.
• avoir froid
• crevé
• faire froid
• frais
  J'ai en outre essuyé un refus dédaigneux lorsque j'ai proposé que les députés fassent preuve de transparence sur le remboursement qu'ils perçoivent tous les mois pour leurs frais généraux. Moreover, I was given the cold shoulder when I proposed that Members should be transparent about the reimbursement they receive for their general expenses every month.
• froide
  Aujourd'hui, le Caucase est aux avant-postes de la nouvelle guerre froide, la guerre froide localisée. Today the Caucasus is the front line of the new cold war, the localised cold war.
  C'est un résultat néfaste de la guerre froide. It is a hangover from the Cold War.
  Les voix critiques parlent d'un soupçon de guerre froide. Critics therefore speak of a touch of cold war.
• froideur
  Quant aux pouvoirs politiques, ils continuent à traiter les réfugiés et les demandeurs d'asile avec froideur, hypocrisie et frilosité. The political authorities still treat refugees and asylum-seekers with coldness, hypocrisy and intolerance.
  Ayant vécu quelques moments historiques, je suis un peu déçu par la froideur qui souffle dans cette salle. Having lived through a few historic changes, I am a little disappointed by the cold wind blowing in this Chamber.
  M. Bowis vient de prononcer un discours dans lequel il est parvenu à mettre des visages sur la froideur des chiffres de la Cour des comptes. Just now, Mr Bowis made a touching speech in which he managed to put faces, human faces, to the dry coldness of these numbers from the Court of Auditors.
• gel
  Certains différends entre États membres, son incapacité à régler les derniers vestiges de l'après-guerre froide, les conflits gelés, l'ont progressivement paralysée, portant atteinte à sa crédibilité. Disputes between participating States, its inability to overcome the last vestiges of the post-Cold War period, and the frozen conflicts have gradually paralysed it, undermining its credibility.

Definition of cold

• Having a low temperature
• Causing the air to be cold
• Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort
• Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling
• Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial
• Completely unprepared; without introduction
• Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness
• Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart
• Cornered, done for
• Not pungent or acrid
• Unexciting; dull; uninteresting
• Affecting the sense of smell only feebly; having lost its odour
• Not sensitive; not acute
• Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare ''warm'and ''hot''
• Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour
• Without compassion; heartless; ruthless
• A condition of low temperature
• A harsh place; a place of abandonment
• A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever
• rheum, sleepy dust
• While at low temperature
• Without preparation
• With finality
• In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner

Synonyms

• brass monkeys
• nippy
• parky
• taters

Examples

• A cold wind whistled through the trees
• The forecast is that it will be very cold today
• She was so cold she was shivering
• She shot me a cold glance before turning her back
• Lets look at this tomorrow with a cold head
• Hes a nice guy, but the cold facts say we should fire him
• The cold truth is that states rarely undertake military action unless their national interests are at stake
• He was assigned cold calls for the first three months
• I knocked him out cold
• After one more beer he passed out cold
• Practice your music scales until you know them cold
• Try both these maneuvers until you have them cold and can do them in the dark without thinking
• Rehearse your lines until you have them down cold
• Keep that list in front of you, or memorize it cold
• With that receipt, we have them cold for fraud
• Criminal interrogation. Initially they will dream up explanations faster than you could ever do so, but when they become fatigued, often they will acknowledge that you have them cold
• a cold scent
• Youre cold … getting warmer … hot! Youve found it!
• I cant believe she said that...that was cold!
• Come in, out of the cold
• The former politician was left out in the cold after his friends deserted him.
• I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week
• The steel was processed cold.
• The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.
• I knocked him out cold.

Related words

• scold
• coldness
• cold-blooded
• cold-hearted
• coldly
• cold-bloodedly
• ice-cold
• colder
• scolding