Shill vs. Chill — What's the Difference?

A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with said person or organization. Shills can carry out their operations in the areas of media, journalism, marketing, politics, sports, confidence games, or other business areas.

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

An accomplice of a confidence trickster or swindler who poses as a genuine customer to entice or encourage others

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

Act or work as a shill

Make (someone) cold

One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle.

Horrify or frighten (someone)

One who publicly promotes another's cause, especially in an extravagant or misleading way.

Calm down and relax

To act as a shill.

Chilly

To act as a shill for (a deceitful enterprise).

Very relaxed or easy-going

To lure (a person) into a swindle.

A moderate but penetrating coldness.

A person paid to endorse a product while pretending to be impartial.

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

(disparaging) Any person paid to endorse a product.

A checking or dampening of enthusiasm, spirit, or joy

An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.

A sudden numbing fear or dread.

(gambling) A house player in a casino.

Moderately cold; chilly

(pejorative) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.

Not warm and friendly; distant

To put under cover; to sheal.

Discouraging; dispiriting

To shell.

(Slang) Calm or relaxed

To shell.

To affect with or as if with cold.

To put under cover; to sheal.

To lower in temperature; cool.

A decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others

To make discouraged; dispirit.

Act as a shill;

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

To be seized with cold.

To become cold or set

(Metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.

To calm down or relax. Often used with out.

To pass time idly; loiter.

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

A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.

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.

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.

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..

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

A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.

Calmness; equanimity.

A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.

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;