Breeze vs. Freeze — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Breeze and Freeze
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Breeze
A light current of air; a gentle wind.
Freeze
To pass from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.
Breeze
Any of five winds with speeds of from 4 to 27 knots (5 to 31 miles per hour; 7 to 50 kilometers per hour), according to the Beaufort scale.
Freeze
To acquire a surface or coat of ice from cold
The lake froze over in January. Bridges freeze before the adjacent roads.
Breeze
(Informal) Something, such as a task, that is easy to do.
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Freeze
To become clogged or jammed because of the formation of ice
The pipes froze in the basement.
Breeze
The refuse left when coke or charcoal is made.
Freeze
To be at that degree of temperature at which ice forms
It may freeze tonight.
Breeze
To move quickly, smoothly, or easily
Breezing along on the freeway.
Freeze
To be killed or harmed by cold or frost
They almost froze to death. Mulch keeps garden plants from freezing.
Breeze
To progress swiftly or easily
We breezed through the test.
Freeze
To be or feel uncomfortably cold
Aren't you freezing without a coat?.
Breeze
A light, gentle wind.
The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.
Freeze
To become fixed, stuck, or attached by or as if by frost
The lock froze up with rust.
Breeze
(figurative) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze.
Freeze
To stop functioning properly, usually temporarily
My computer screen froze when I opened the infected program.
Breeze
(cricket) Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
Freeze
To become motionless or immobile, as from surprise or attentiveness
I heard a sound and froze in my tracks.
Breeze
An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
The discovery produced a breeze.
Freeze
To become unable to act or speak, as from fear
Froze in front of the audience.
Breeze
A brief workout for a racehorse.
Freeze
To become rigid and inflexible; solidify
An opinion that froze into dogma.
Breeze
A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
Freeze
To convert into ice.
Breeze
Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
Freeze
To cause ice to form upon.
Breeze
To move casually, in a carefree manner.
Freeze
To cause to congeal or stiffen from extreme cold
Winter cold that froze the ground.
Breeze
(weather) To blow gently.
Freeze
To preserve (foods, for example) by subjecting to freezing temperatures.
Breeze
To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
Freeze
To damage, kill, or make inoperative by cold or by the formation of ice.
Breeze
(of fish) To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.
Freeze
To make very cold; chill.
Breeze
(intransitive) To buzz.
Freeze
To immobilize, as with fear or shock.
Breeze
A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidæ, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; - called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies.
Freeze
To chill with an icy or formal manner
Froze me with one look.
Breeze
A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
Into a gradual calm the breezes sink.
Freeze
To stop the motion or progress of
The negotiations were frozen by the refusal of either side to compromise.
Froze the video in order to discuss the composition of the frame.
Breeze
An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
Freeze
To fix (prices or wages, for example) at a given or current level.
Breeze
Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
Freeze
To prohibit further manufacture or use of.
Breeze
Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
Freeze
To prevent or restrict the exchange, withdrawal, liquidation, or granting of by governmental action
Freeze investment loans during a depression.
Froze foreign assets held by US banks.
Breeze
To blow gently.
Freeze
To anesthetize by chilling.
Breeze
A slight wind (usually refreshing);
The breeze was cooled by the lake
As he waited he could feel the air on his neck
Freeze
(Sports) To keep possession of (a ball or puck) so as to deny an opponent the opportunity to score.
Breeze
Any undertaking that is easy to do;
Marketing this product will be no picnic
Freeze
The act of freezing.
Breeze
Blow gently and lightly;
It breezes most evenings at the shore
Freeze
The state of being frozen.
Breeze
To proceed quickly and easily
Freeze
A spell of cold weather; a frost.
Freeze
A restriction that forbids a quantity from rising above a given or current level
A freeze on city jobs.
A proposed freeze on the production of nuclear weapons.
Freeze
Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
The lake froze solid.
Freeze
(transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
Don't freeze meat twice.
Freeze
(intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
It didn't freeze this winter, but last winter was very harsh.
Freeze
To be affected by extreme cold.
It's freezing in here!
Don't go outside wearing just a t-shirt; you'll freeze!
Freeze
(intransitive) (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
Since the last update, the program freezes after a few minutes of use.
Freeze
(intransitive) (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
Despite all of the rehearsals, I froze as soon as I got on stage.
Freeze
(transitive) To cause someone to become motionless.
Freeze
(figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
Over time, he froze towards her, and ceased to react to her friendly advances.
Freeze
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
Freeze
(transitive) To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
The court froze the criminal's bank account.
Freeze
Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.
Freeze
(Internet) To prevent from showing any visible change.
Some websites, such as YouTube, deliberately freeze the view count, intended to deter attempts to game the system.
Freeze
A period of intensely cold weather.
Freeze
A halt of a regular operation.
Freeze
(computer) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
Freeze
(curling) 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.
Freeze
A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.
A hiring freeze;
A pay freeze
Freeze
A frieze.
Freeze
The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.
Freeze
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.
Freeze
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.
Freeze
To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
Freeze
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
A faint, cold fear runs through my veins,That almost freezes up the heat of life.
A railroad which had a London connection must not be allowed to freeze out one that had no such connection.
It is sometimes a long time before a player who is frozen out can get into a game again.
Freeze
The withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid
Freeze
Weather cold enough to cause freezing
Freeze
An interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement;
A halt in the arms race
A nuclear freeze
Freeze
Fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level;
A freeze on hiring
Freeze
Change to ice;
The water in the bowl froze
Freeze
Stop moving or become immobilized;
When he saw the police car he froze
Freeze
Be cold;
I could freeze to death in this office when the air conditioning is turned on
Freeze
Cause to freeze;
Freeze the leftover food
Freeze
Stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it;
Suspend the aid to the war-torn country
Freeze
Be very cold, below the freezing point;
It is freezing in Kalamazoo
Freeze
Change from a liquid to a solid when cold;
Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit
Freeze
Prohibit the conversion or use of (assets);
Blocked funds
Freeze the assets of this hostile government
Freeze
Anesthetize by cold
Freeze
Suddenly behave coldly and formally;
She froze when she saw her ex-husband
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