1. n. (meteorology) Ice formed by the rapid freezing of cold water droplets of fog onto a cold surface.
2. n. (meteorology) A coating or sheet of ice so formed.
3. n. A film or slimy coating.
4. v. To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
5. n. (obsolete, or dialectal) Number.
6. n. (archaic except in direct borrowings from French) Rhyme.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in the 18th century.
7. n. (linguistics) The second part of a syllable, from the vowel on, as opposed to the onset.
8. v. obsolete form of rhyme
9. n. A step of a ladder; a rung.
10. n. A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.
frost
1. 名詞. 霜。
2. 名詞. 霜が降る恐れのある天候。
3. 動詞. 霜で覆われる。
4. 動詞. （ケーキを白砂糖で覆うように）霜状のもので覆う。
5. 動詞. 怒る。
I think the boss's decision frosted him, a bit.
frost
1. n. A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
2. n. The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.
3. n. (figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.
4. n. (obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.
5. n. A shade of white, like that of frost.
(color panel, ECFCFC)
6. n. (slang) A disappointment; a cheat.
7. v. To cover with frost.
8. v. (intransitive) To become covered with frost.
9. v. To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
10. v. To anger or annoy.
I think the boss's decision frosted him a bit.
11. v. To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
hoarfrost
1. 名詞. 白霜
hoarfrost
1. n. Dew-drops which have undergone deposition and frozen into ice crystals to form a white deposit on an exposed surface, when the air is cold and moist.
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