Calm vs. Chill — What's the Difference?

Not showing or feeling nervousness, anger, or other strong emotions

An unpleasant feeling of coldness in the atmosphere, one's surroundings, or the body

(of the weather) pleasantly free from wind

A metal mould, often cooled, designed to ensure rapid or even cooling of metal during casting.

The absence of strong emotions; calm feelings

Make (someone) cold

The absence of wind

Horrify or frighten (someone)

Make (someone) tranquil and quiet; soothe

Calm down and relax

Nearly or completely motionless; undisturbed

Chilly

Not excited or agitated; composed

Very relaxed or easy-going

An absence or cessation of motion; stillness.

A moderate but penetrating coldness.

A condition of no wind or a wind with a speed of less than 1 knot (1.15 miles per hour; 1.9 kilometers per hour), according to the Beaufort scale.

A sensation of coldness, often accompanied by shivering and pallor of the skin.

Tranquility or serenity

A checking or dampening of enthusiasm, spirit, or joy

To make or become calm or quiet

A sudden numbing fear or dread.

(of a person) Peaceful, quiet, especially free from anger and anxiety.

Moderately cold; chilly

(of a place or situation) Free of noise and disturbance.

Not warm and friendly; distant

(of water) with few or no waves on the surface; not rippled.

Discouraging; dispiriting

Without wind or storm.

(Slang) Calm or relaxed

(in a person) The state of being calm; peacefulness; absence of worry, anger, fear or other strong negative emotion.

To affect with or as if with cold.

(in a place or situation) The state of being calm; absence of noise and disturbance.

To lower in temperature; cool.

A period of time without wind.

To make discouraged; dispirit.

(transitive) To make calm.

(Metallurgy) To harden (a metallic surface) by rapid cooling.

(intransitive) To become calm.

To be seized with cold.

Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility; stillness; quiet; serenity.

To become cold or set

To make calm; to render still or quiet, as elements; as, to calm the winds.

(Metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.

To deliver from agitation or excitement; to still or soothe, as the mind or passions.

To calm down or relax. Often used with out.

Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed.

To pass time idly; loiter.

Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.

To spend time with someone in a relaxed manner; hang out together.

Steadiness of mind under stress;

A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

Make calm or still;

A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness.

Make steady;

An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.

Become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation;

An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it..

Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to;

The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.

Not agitated; without losing self-possession;

A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.

Characterized by absence of emotional agitation;

Calmness; equanimity.

(of weather) free from storm or wind;

A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.

Marked by freedom from agitation or excitement;

Moderately cold or chilly.

Unwelcoming; not cordial.

(slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.

(slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.

(slang) Okay, not a problem.

(transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.

(intransitive) To become cold.

To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.

To become hard by rapid cooling.

To relax; to lie back.

To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.

To smoke marijuana.

To discourage, depress.

A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.

A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever.

A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.

An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.

The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.

Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.

Affected by cold.

Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.

Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.

To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.

To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.

To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to increase the hardness; said of cast iron.

To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.

Coldness due to a cold environment

An almost pleasurable sensation of fright;

A sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever

A sudden numbing dread

Depress or discourage;

Make cool or cooler;

Loose heat;

Uncomfortably cool;