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Cool Down

Definition: Cool Down

Cool Down

Verb

1. Make cool or cooler; "Chill the food".

2. Lose intensity; "His enthusiasm cooled considerably".

3. Loose heat; The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Cool Down

Synonyms: chill (v), cool (v), cool off (v). (additional references)
Antonym: heat (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Cool Down

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Excitability

Calm down, cool down; gentle; thaw, grow cool.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Cool Down

Specialty definitions using "cool down": direct attackHEAT STORM. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Cool Down

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Chilling Story: How Things Cool Down (At Home With Science) (reference)

  • Back Off Cool Down, Try Again: Teaching Students How to Control Aggressive Behavior (reference)

  • How to Overcome Cool Down (reference)

  • Too Hot to Cool Down (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Cool Down

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cool down up warm

4

cool down f hold least onto them they until while

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cool Down

Language Translations for "cool down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

bekoel (cool). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

qetësoj (allay, appease, assuage, balsam, becalm, calm, calm down, comfort, conciliate, ease, gentle, hush, lull, mollify, pacificate, pacify, palliate, placate, propitiate, quiet, quieten, reassure, relieve, salve, settle, soften, soothe, tranquilize, tranquillize), qetësohem (abate, blow out, calm down, cool off, die down, grow quiet, heal, rage, settle down, simmer down, subside), ftohem (be cold, catch cool, chill, freeze, get cool). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فتر (cool, flag, freeze, lag, languish), ‏هدأ أعصابه, ‏أهدأ (calm, calm down, moderate, quiet, settle down, stay), ‏أصبح باردا (ice). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

охладнявам (become cold, cool), изстудявам (chill, ice), изстивам (freeze). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zchladit (cool, damp), vychladit (chill, cool, ice), uklidnit se (calm, calm down, compose oneself, quieten, simmer down, steady, still, subside), ochladit (anneal, cool). (various references)

   

Danish

  

nedkoeling (refrigerating), afkøle (cool, get cold). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bekoelen (abate, cool, subside), afkoeling (cold, cooling), afkoelen (cool, get cold). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

malvarmetiĝi (cool), malplivarmigi (cool). (various references)

   

French

  

se refroidir (get cold), se calmer, s'apaiser, refroidissement (cold, cooling, coolness), refroidir (cool), faire refroidir (cool). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

kuolje (cool, get cold), ôfkuolje (cool, get cold). (various references)

   

German

  

sich abregen (calm down, simmer down), sich abkühlen (be eased, become cooler, cool, cool off), erkalten (cool off), abkühlen (chill, cool, cool off, to cool off). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κρυώνω (chill, cool), επανάψυξη. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"תקרר (cool, refrigerate). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megnyugszik (calm down, to assuage, to grow quiet, to quiet down, to quieten down, to set one's heart at rest, to steady, to still, to whist), lehût (chill, cool, refrigerate, wet blanket). (various references)

   

Italian

  

raffreddare (become cold, catch a cold, chill, cool, cool off, die down, make cold, refrigerate). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

クーポン券 (air conditioner, cool, cool jazz, cool-box, cooler, cooler-box, coolie, cooling down, cooling tower, cooling-off, coulomb, coupon, courier service, course). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

クールダウン . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oolcay ownday

   

Portuguese

  

refrigeração (refrigeration). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

остывать (cool, cool off), охлаждаться (chill, cool). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

smiriti se (calm down, quiet down, simmer down), ohladiti (chill, turn off). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

enfriar (chill, cool, damp, dampen, dull, get cold, ice, quench). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

svalna, lugna ner. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yatışmak (calm down, come off the boil, cool, quiet, quiet down, resettle, settle, simmer down, still, subside), soğumak (become cold, become estranged, grow away from), sakinleşmek (become tranquilized, calm down, compose oneself, hush, let one's hair down, let up, quiet, quiet down, quieten, resettle, simmer down, slacken, smooth, smooth down, still, subside), gevşemek (come loose, come unstuck, ease off, fade, flag, get loose, go limp, languish, let go, let up, let upon, loosen, relax, slack, slack off, slacken, soften, unbend, unbrace oneself, unwind, work loose). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

втихомірювати, заспокоювати (appease, assuage, assure, becalm, calm, comfort, conciliate, ease, lull, mollify, plaster, propitiate, quell, quiet, quieten, relieve, salve, satisfy, smooth, soften, soothe, still, tranquilize, tranquillize). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Cool Down

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

refrigescet. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Cool Down

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cooldown.

Words within the letters "c-d-l-n-o-o-o-w"

-3 letters: clown, codon, colon, condo.

-4 letters: clod, clon, cold, cool, coon, cowl, down, loco, loon, lown, nolo, wold, wood, wool.

-5 letters: cod, col, con, coo, cow, doc, dol, don, dow, loo, low, nod, noo, now, old, owl, own, won, woo.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-l-n-o-o-o-w"
 

+1 letter: cooldowns.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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