Frozen vs. Cold — What's the Difference?

Past participle of freeze.

Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjective perception.

Made into, covered with, or surrounded by ice.

Having a low temperature

Very cold

Being at a temperature that is less than what is required or what is normal

Preserved by freezing

Chilled by refrigeration or ice

Rendered immobile

Feeling no warmth; uncomfortably chilled

Immobile, as from pain or inflammation. Used of a joint

Appearing to be dead; unconscious

Expressive of cold unfriendliness or disdain

Dead

Kept at a fixed level

Lacking emotion; objective

Impossible to withdraw, sell, or liquidate

Having little appeal to the senses or feelings

Having undergone the process of freezing; in ice form.

Designating or being in a tone or color, such as pale gray, that suggests little warmth.

Immobilized.

Not affectionate or friendly; aloof

(of a bank account or assets) In a state such that transactions are not allowed.

Exhibiting or feeling no enthusiasm

(grammar) Retaining an older, obsolete syntax of an earlier version of a language, which now operates only on a specific word or phrase.

Devoid of sexual desire; frigid.

Inflection of freeze

Having lost all freshness or vividness through passage of time

Congealed with cold; affected by freezing; as, a frozen brook.

So intense as to be almost uncontrollable

Subject to frost, or to long and severe cold; chilly; as, the frozen north; the frozen zones.

Characterized by repeated failure, especially in a sport or competitive activity

Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding.

To an unqualified degree; totally

Turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold;

With complete finality

Absolutely still;

Without advance preparation or introduction

Devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain;

Relative lack of warmth

Not thawed

The sensation resulting from lack of warmth; chill.

Used of foods; preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value;

A condition of low air temperature; cold weather

Not convertible to cash;

A viral infection characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the upper respiratory passages and usually accompanied by malaise, fever, chills, coughing, and sneezing. Also called common cold, coryza.

Incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g.

(of a thing) Having a low temperature.

(of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.

(of a person or animal) 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.

(usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.

(usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.

(obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.

(obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.

Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.

(obsolete) 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.

(painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.

(databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.

(informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.

(informal) Not radioactive.

(firearm) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.

Without electrical power being supplied.

A condition of low temperature.

A harsh place; a place of abandonment.

(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.

(slang) rheum, sleepy dust

At a low temperature.

Without preparation.

In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.

Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.

Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.

Not pungent or acrid.

Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.

Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.

Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.

Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.

Not sensitive; not acute.

Distant; - said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.

Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.

The relative absence of heat or warmth.

The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.

A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.

To become cold.

A mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs);

The absence of heat;

The sensation produced by low temperatures;

Used of physical coldness; having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration;

Extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion;

Having lost freshness through passage of time;

(color) giving no sensation of warmth;

Marked by errorless familiarity;

No longer new; uninteresting;

So intense as to be almost uncontrollable;

Sexually unresponsive;

Without compunction or human feeling;

Feeling or showing no enthusiasm;

Unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication;

Of a seeker; far from the object sought

Lacking the warmth of life;