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Definition: Chilling |
ChillingAdjective1. So scary as to cause chills and shudders; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge". Noun1. The process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "chilling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Cooling, usually to temperatures near the freezing point. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Chilling of fruit prevents ripening. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The process of cooling a commodity to a temperature above its freezing point. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ChillingSynonyms: scarey (adj), scary (adj), shivery (adj), shuddery (adj), cooling (n), temperature reduction (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Chilling |
| English words defined with "chilling": frigorific ♦ refrigerate, refrigeration system. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "chilling": CHILLER TENDER, crymo-anesthesia ♦ die-casting machine operator, drier-machine hand ♦ Enteritis, Transmissible, of Turkeys ♦ flake drier ♦ Harvey process, HAT CONDITIONER ♦ MOLDER, WAX ♦ NAPHTHA-WASHING-SYSTEM OPERATOR ♦ oil winterizer ♦ POULTRY HANGER, Pretty Good Privacy ♦ refrigeration anesthesia, reticulite, roll-machine attendant, ROTOR CASTING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ SOAP-DRIER OPERATOR, SPREADING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ TRIPE COOKER ♦ WINTERIZER. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Chilling (1974) A Short Film About Chilling (1990) The Chilling (1989) | |
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 | A chilling blast from across the Atlantic. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Meats are hung in chilling room when first brought in, then cut into roasts, etc., and frozen. Cold storage lockers, Casselton, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Cat in the grass" by Jeffrey Lingmont Commentary: "A close-up of a white cat chilling in the grass and looking in the camera." | "Master Blaster 2" by Igor Beres Commentary: "Just chilling ." |
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 | Horror movie; bloodcurdling; chilling; creepy; hair-raising; hairy; horrendous; horrifying; spine-chilling; spooky; terrifying; unnerving. | | Spooky; chilling, creepy, eerie, ghostly, mysterious, ominous, scary, spine-chilling, supernatural, uncanny, unearthly, weird; fright. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Indonesia | The editors acknowledged that these threats from citizen groups have a chilling effect on how they report the news. (references) |
China | These detentions created a chilling effect on other Chinese researchers, whether resident in the country or abroad. (references) | |
Gambia | Unlike in previous years, these decrees and the fear of reprisals and government action did not have a chilling effect on the press. (references) | |
Economic History | France | This can in itself have a chilling effect on foreign investment. (references) |
Kenya | In addition to passenger handling services, it has air cargo handling facilities, including chilling facilities for storage of cut flowers bound for Europe. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | Nuclear detonations by neighboring India and Pakistan in May 1998 had a chilling effect on foreign commercial and investor interest in Sri Lanka, especially on the Colombo stock market. (references) | |
Political Rights | Malaysia | While there is no evidence that the Government ever has traced individual votes, some opposition leaders have alleged that the potential to do so has a chilling effect on some voters, particularly civil servants. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Chilling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 46.56% of the time. "Chilling" is used about 189 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 46.56% | 88 | 35,154 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 46.03% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.7% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.7% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 189 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "chilling": blood-chilling, bone-chilling, spine-chilling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
chilling | 13 |
chilling system | 10 |
chilling effect | 4 |
chilling wine | 3 |
chilling haunted house sound thrilling | 3 |
chilling just | 2 |
broad chilling | 2 |
air arctic chilling system | 2 |
chilling disney effects halloween sound thrilling | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "chilling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | قارس (chilly, cutting, frigging, nippy, severe, sharp, shrewd). (various references) | |
Chinese | 变冷 (Chilled). (various references) | |
Danish | nedsvaling (chillproofing), nedkøling (cooling), ned køling af frugt, koeling (cooling, cooling down, refrigeration), køling af frugt, køling (cooling), afsvaling (chillproofing). (various references) | |
Dutch | verkoudheid (cold), lage-temperatuurbeschadiging, lage temperatuurschade, kouvatting, koeling (annealing, cooling, refrigeration), koelen (refrigerate). (various references) | |
Finnish | jäätävä, jäähdytys (cooling, refrigeration), jäähdyttäminen (cooling, cooling down, refrigeration). (various references) | |
French | chilling (chillproofing), ressuyage, ressuage, refroidissement (chill), réfrigération. (various references) | |
German | Kälte verbreitend. (various references) | |
Greek | κατάψυξη (refrigeration), υπέρψυξη (supercooling), φρικιαστικός (appalling), φοβερός (abysmal, fearsome, frightful, terrible), ψύξη μπύρας (chillproofing), ψύξη (coling, cooling, freezing, frigidity, refrigeration). (various references) | |
Hebrew | התקררות (catching cold, cooling), הגלדה (freezing, icing, incrustation), הצטננות (catching cold, cold). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megdermedés (congealment, congelation, gelation, solidification, stupefaction), lehűtés (quenching, refrigeration), kokillaedzés, jegelés, hideg edzés, hűtés (refrigeration), gyorshűtés, fagyos (chill, frigid, frore, frosty, glacial, wintery, wintry), fagyasztás (congelation, icing, refrigeration), dermesztő (numbing, stupefying), behűtés. (various references) | |
Italian | refrigerazione (chillproofing, cooling, cooling down, refrigeration), raffreddamento (cooling). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 冷剛 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | れいごう. (various references) | |
Korean | 식힘. (various references) | |
Manx | shamyr feayree (chilling room). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | illingchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | resfriamento (cooling, resurgence), refrigeração (cool down, cooling, cooling down, refrigeration), arrefecimento (chillproofing, cooling), aguamento (founder, laminitis). (various references) | |
Russian | ужасный (appalling, atrocious, awful, blood-curding, chronic, damnable, damned, desperate, dire, direful, dreadful, fearful, formidable, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruelling, gruesome, hair raising, hair-raising, hairy, heinous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, macabre, perishing, spooky, terrible, tragic, unearthy), охлаждать леденящий. (various references) | |
Spanish | resfriado (cold), refrigeración (refrigeration), pasmo (amazement, astonishment), enfriamiento de la cerveza (chillproofing), enfriamiento (chill, cooling, quenching). (various references) | |
Swedish | kylning (annealing, chillproofing, cooling, cooling down, refrigeration, slacking), kylförlopp (refrigeration). (various references) | |
Turkish | soğuk (aloof, angular, apathetic, apathetical, bleak, calm, chill, chilly, cold, cool, cryo-, distant, freezing, frigid, frostiness, frosty, frozen, icily, inclement, inhospitable, marble, offish, Parky, phlegmatic, phlegmatical, remote, rigorous, saturnine, standoffish, starchy, stiff, stony, uncompanionable, unfriendly, unsympathetic, wintry), dondurucu (cryo-, cutting, deep-freezer, freezer, freezing, frosty, nipping, perishing, refrigerant), üşütücü (chill). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | lạnh (chill, chilly, cold, nippy). (various references) | |
Welsh | addoer (cruel, sad). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chilling": chillingly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "chilling": overchilling, prechilling, schilling. (additional references) | |
Words containing "chilling": schillings. (additional references) | |
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"Chilling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: achillean, chaleng, Challen, challeng, Childine, childing, Chillen, chillin, chillinga, Chillon, Chipling, chitling, Chwilog, cilling, crilling, Csillag. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "chilling" (pronounced khi"ling) |
| 4 | -i" l i ng | billing, distilling, drilling, filling, fulfilling, grilling, hilling, instilling, killing, milling, Pilling, quilling, rilling, Schilling, shilling, skilling, spilling, swilling, thrilling, Tilling, trilling, unwilling, willing, yearling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | annealing, appalling, appealing, ailing, ambling, angling, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, falling, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, forestalling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, lolling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, throttling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-h-i-i-l-l-n" | |
-1 letter: hilling. | |
-2 letters: chilli. | |
-3 letters: chili, chill, cling, icing, lichi, nihil. | |
-4 letters: chin, gill, hili, hill, inch, lich, ling, nigh, nill. | |
-5 letters: chi, cig, ghi, gin, hic, hin, ich, ill, lin, nil. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-h-i-i-l-l-n" | |
+1 letter: schilling. | |
+2 letters: chillingly, chiselling, schillings. | |
+3 letters: clinchingly, prechilling. | |
+4 letters: hygienically, overchilling. | |
+5 letters: clotheslining, collieshangie, hallucinating, lichenologies, lichenologist, unflinchingly. | |
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