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Definition: Cooler |
CoolerNoun1. A refrigerator for cooling liquids. 2. An iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice. 3. A cell for violent prisoners. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cooler" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | See radiator, note. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | COOLER. A woman. COOLER. The backside. Kiss my cooler. Kiss my a-se. It is principally used to signify a woman's posteriors. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CoolerSynonyms: ice chest (n), tank (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Refrigerator | Noun: refrigerator, refrigeratory; frigidarium; cold storage, cold room, cold laboratory; icehouse, icepail, icebag, icebox; cooler, damper, polyurethane cooler; wine cooler. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It would be a lot cooler if ya did. (Dazed and Confused; writing credit: Richard Linklater.) Drinking shows a real commitment to becoming a cooler person. (Mission Hill; writing credit: Aaron Ehasz; Andrew Kreisberg) Yeah! But they're way cooler! (Natural Born Killers; writing credit: David Veloz) Willow and Tara are witches, which is so much cooler than being a slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) You aren't seriously suggesting that if I get through the wire and case everything out there, and don't get picked up; to turn myself in and get thrown back in the cooler for a couple of months just so you can get the information you need? (The Great Escape; writing credit: James Clavell) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Cooler (2003) Rattlesnake in a Cooler (1980) | |
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 | Launch lunch on Inner Brass Island Launch lunch was a venerable institution on hydrographic ships Usually consisted of bread, bologna, and whatever else could be put in a cooler Always generated gripes but no one ever starved Tide gauge installation crew breaking for lunch. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Okra in the cooler of the Indian Springs Coop vegitable shed. Shed was built with the help of USDA. Credit: USDA. |
 | It'll be much cooler now!. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | He's getting cooler as the mercury drops. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cold storage warehouse onions. Jersey City, New Jersey. Onions are kept in "cooler room". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Stacks of cheese in cold storage warehouse, Jersey City, New Jersey, in "cooler room". Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pasteurized milk running over cooler. Antigo, Wisconsin. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Milk cooler of the United Cooperative Society at Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Remains of water cooler. Cambria, Wyoming. Ghost mining town. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mrs. Richard M. Tobin, Woodside Acres, residence in Syosset, Long Island. Cooler. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Glug glug of the water cooler jug emptying into the crock. |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The house cracked loudly as the cooler night air contracted the wood. |
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Health | Symptoms include changes in skin color (white to blue to red) and skin temperature (the affected area feels cooler). (references) | |
As with other parasitic diseases, roundworm infections are more common in warm climates than in cooler, temperate areas. (references) | ||
As expected, few cases of Lyme disease are reported in the cooler months of the year, when adult Ixodes ticks are most active. (references) | ||
Business | Southern Europe, with its beach resorts and warm weather, has many popular destinations, contrary to Northern Europe and its cooler climate. (references) | |
Economic History | Solomon Islands | June through August is the cooler period. (references) |
Indonesia | Climate: Equatorial but cooler in the highlands. (references) | |
Equatorial Guinea | Bata on the mainland is somewhat drier and cooler. (references) | |
Travel | Honduras | The mountainous zone in central Honduras is dryer and cooler. (references) |
Honduras | From mid-November to February it may be cooler during the day. (references) | |
Mauritius | During the cooler months -- June through September -- light woolens are recommended. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | WEATHER, n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle. Once I dipt into the future far as human eye could see, And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be -- Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth, With a record of unreason seldom paralleled on earth. While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incadescent youth, From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth. He cast his eyes about him and above him; then he wrote On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote -- For I read it in the rose-light of the everlasting glow: "Cloudy; variable winds, with local showers; cooler; snow." Halcyon Jones |
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Dennis Miller | You know, when you're knocking over small children as you careen down the street because you're literally crating cargo in your pants, it seems like the cooler move at that point would be just to bite the bullet and go with the man-purse. |
Ed McMahon | That's right. Water cooler conversation. And the next day, you got a pretty good perspective as to what was happening in the country. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Cooler" is generally used as an adjective (comparative) -- approximately 76.47% of the time. "Cooler" is used about 374 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 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 76.47% | 286 | 17,222 |
| Noun (singular) | 23.26% | 87 | 35,390 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.27% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 374 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "cooler" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cooler | Last name | 300 | 27,846 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "cooler": air cooler ♦ air cooler of generator ♦ become cooler ♦ cooler plated steel ♦ double spacing finned cooler ♦ drinking water cooler ♦ evaporative cooler ♦ get cooler ♦ planetary cooler ♦ polyurethane cooler ♦ ribbed cooler ♦ sensible heat air cooler ♦ sparge ring type milk cooler ♦ Unax cooler ♦ water cooler ♦ wetted pad evaporative cooler ♦ wine cooler. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cooler": cooler-than-thou. | |
Ending with "cooler": wine-cooler. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cooler | 2,852 | electric cooler | 123 |
water cooler | 1,281 | portable cooler | 119 |
igloo cooler | 776 | floating cooler | 115 |
wine cooler | 775 | oasis water cooler | 114 |
swamp cooler | 666 | cooler bag | 105 |
evaporative cooler | 552 | can cooler | 102 |
cooler kid | 437 | beverage cooler | 102 |
coleman cooler | 397 | bottled water cooler | 89 |
air cooler | 336 | car cooler | 81 |
walk in cooler | 218 | cooler grill | 80 |
oil cooler | 213 | backpack cooler | 79 |
beer cooler | 203 | spot cooler | 74 |
cpu cooler | 199 | rubbermaid cooler | 72 |
transmission cooler | 189 | ice cooler | 71 |
thermoelectric cooler | 180 | cleavage cooler | 69 |
cooler master | 156 | cooler kid lyrics | 68 |
neck cooler | 133 | coca cola cooler | 67 |
keg cooler | 130 | canine cooler | 66 |
soft cooler | 128 | hard drive cooler | 59 |
portable air cooler | 126 | travel cooler | 59 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "cooler"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pije freskuese (refresher, refreshing drink, refreshment), ftohës (coolant, cooling, refrigerator), frigorifer (cold storage, fridge, frig, icebox, meat-safe, refrigerator, refrigeratory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سجن (be imprisoned, can, clap, clink, confine, detain, detention, gaol, hatch, hock, immure, imprison, imprisonment, incarcerate, incarceration, intern, internment, jail, jug, lock up, lockup, log cabin, mure, nick, penitentiary, pokey, prison, quod, send up, stir, throw), المبرد, شراب مثلوج, براد (icebox, refrigerator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съд за охлаждане на вино, хладилник (freezer, icebox, meat-safe, refrigerator, refrigeratory), охладител (condenser), питие с лед. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 致冷机. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | chladiè (radiator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | køler (radiator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | radiator (radiator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کولر, سردکن , خنک کننده , دستگاه خنک کننده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jäähdyttäjä (radiator, refrigerator), jäähdytin (radiator, refrigerator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | taule, radiateur (core assembly), glacière. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Kühler (chillier, coolish, ice bucket, radiator), kühlt ab (chills). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ψυγείο (freezer, fridge, ice box, refrigerator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מקרר (condenser, fridge, radiator, refrigerator), מצ ן. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hûtõszerkezet, frissítõ (bracing, cooling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pendingin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | refrigeratore (refrigerator), radiatore (chillier, heaters, radiator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 冷却器 (freezer, radiator, refrigerator), クーポン券 (air conditioner, cool, cool down, cool jazz, cool-box, cooler-box, coolie, cooling down, cooling tower, cooling-off, coulomb, coupon, courier service, course). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | れいきゃくき (freezer, radiator, refrigerator), クーラー (air conditioner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 냉각기. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | saagh feayree, feayreyder (radiator, refrigerator). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oolercay resfriador, refrigerante (frig, refresher, refrigerant, refrigeratory, soft drink), refrigerador (frig, refrigerant, refrigerator, refrigeratory), radiador (heater, radiator), geladeira (cold storage, freezer, fridge, ice box, icehouse, refrigerator), frigorífico (freezer, fridge, frig, refrigerator). (various references) rãcitor (freezer), frigorifer (cooling, refrigerating, refrigerator), frigider (freezer, fridge, frig, refrigerator), închisoare (cage, coop, correction, gaol, hold, house of detention, imprisonment, jug, keep, pound, prison, station house). (various references) холодильник (cold storage, condenser, frige, frigidaire, icebox, ice-box, meat-safe, refrigerator), охлаждающее вещество (refrigerant), бачок с водой. (various references) zatvor (calaboose, choky, clink, confinement, coop, jail, lockup, obstipation, prison, prison house, quod, stir, stockade), hladnjak (alcove, arbor, arbour, radiator). (various references) refrigerante (cooling, refrigerant), radiador (radiant, radiator), nevera (fridge, icebox, icehouse, refrigerator), acondicionador (conditioner). (various references) kylare (radiator), kåk (can, clink, jug, quod, shanty, stir), finka (boxcar, chokey, choky, coop, covered vagon, hole, jug, lockup, Nick, quod, Van). (various references) เครื่องทำน้ำเย็น. (various references) soğutucu (cooling, icebox, refrigerant, refrigerating, refrigerator), soğuk içecek, kodes (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, gaol, hole, jail, jug, pen, prison, quod, stir), hapishane (bull pen, cage, can, choky, clink, coop, gaol, institution, jail, Nick, pen, penal institution, penitentiary, pound, prison, quod, roundhouse, shop, stir, stockade, tank, ward). (various references) радіатор (heater, radiator), холоильник, охолоджувач (quencher, refrigerant). (various references) máy ướp lạnh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cooler": coolers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cooler": intercooler, watercooler. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cooler": intercoolers, watercoolers. (additional references) | |
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"Cooler" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ceiler, Ceolbeg, coboller, coilier, colar, coleer, coler, colere, coleur, colfer, Colleer, coller, coloe, cololur, Colomer, colorer, conler, coober, cooder, coodler, Coole, coolee, Cooles, cooley, coolum, coomer, coorer, Coover, corler, Couldery, couler, couleur, Cowler, culer, Kotler, ocler, ocoer, Scouler, Scouller, tooler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cooler" (pronounced kuw"ler) |
| 3 | -uw" l er | ruler. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-l-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: ceorl, color, cooer. | |
-2 letters: cero, cole, cool, core, loco, lore, oleo, orle, role. | |
-3 letters: cel, col, coo, cor, loo, ole, orc, ore, rec, roc, roe. | |
-4 letters: el, er, lo, oe, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-l-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: colored, colorer, coolers, coronel, creosol, decolor, precool, recolor. | |
+2 letters: borecole, coholder, colessor, colewort, coloreds, colorers, colorize, colormen, coloured, colourer, condoler, consoler, coronels, creosols, decolors, decolour, forelock, overcold, overcool, precools, recolors, reschool. | |
+3 letters: bicolored, borecoles, carpooled, carpooler, chloroses, coholders, colessors, coleworts, collector, colonizer, colorable, colorbred, colorized, colorizes, colorless, colourers, condolers, consolers, copolymer, coprolite, corollate, corporeal, counselor, crocodile, crookedly, decolored, decolours, decontrol, foreclose, forelocks, holocrine, micromole, necrology, necropoli, olecranon, overcloud, overcools, precooled, preschool, recolored, reschools, serologic, supercool, uncolored, undercool. | |
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