What is the meaning of cold?

noun

• A mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs. )
  • usage: "will they never find a cure for the common cold"
  • synonyms: common cold
• The absence of heat.
  • usage: "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor"
  • synonyms: coldness, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness
• The sensation produced by low temperatures.
  • usage: "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"
  • synonyms: coldness

adjective

• Having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e. G. Ice or refrigeration.
  • usage: "a cold climate"; "a cold room"; "dinner has gotten cold"; "cold fingers"; "if you are cold, turn up the heat"; "a cold beer"
• Extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion.
  • usage: "a cold unfriendly nod"; "a cold and unaffectionate person"; "a cold impersonal manner"; "cold logic"; "the concert left me cold"
• Having lost freshness through passage of time.
  • usage: "a cold trail"; "dogs attempting to catch a cold scent"
• Color) giving no sensation of warmth. (
  • usage: "a cold bluish grey"
• Marked by errorless familiarity.
  • usage: "had her lines cold before rehearsals started"
• Lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new.
  • usage: "moth-eaten theories about race"; "stale news"
  • synonyms: stale, dusty, moth-eaten
• So intense as to be almost uncontrollable.
  • usage: "cold fury gripped him"
• Sexually unresponsive.
  • usage: "was cold to his advances"; "a frigid woman"
  • synonyms: frigid
• Without compunction or human feeling.
  • usage: "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction"
  • synonyms: cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate
• Feeling or showing no enthusiasm.
  • usage: "a cold audience"; "a cold response to the new play"
• Unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication.
  • usage: "the boxer was out cold"; "pass out cold"
• Of a seeker; far from the object sought.
• Lacking the warmth of life.
  • usage: "cold in his grave"