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Definition: Unfreeze |
UnfreezeVerb1. Become or cause to become soft or liquid; "The sun melted the ice"; "the ice thawed"; "the ice cream melted"; "The heat melted the wax". 2. Make available, as of assets; or free for sale or publication. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unfreeze" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
Synonyms: UnfreezeSynonyms: free (v), melt (v), release (v), thaw (v), unblock (v), unthaw (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: freeze (v). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Uh, guys, we have about 20 seconds until they unfreeze. (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Unfreeze" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Unfreeze" is used about 18 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 (infinitive) | 83.33% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 16.67% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
unfreeze | 43 |
account neopets unfreeze | 8 |
2.1 unfreeze | 4 |
neopets unfreeze | 3 |
gif unfreeze | 2 |
domain unfreeze zoras | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "unfreeze"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pushoj të mos paguaj rrogë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تفكك (come apart, dissociate, dissociation, separate, taking apart), تسيح. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | размразявам, топя (dissolve, found, fuse, melt, render, run, smelt, steep, thaw, try). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | uvolnit se (come adrift, loosen up, slacken, unbend, unbutton, unclench, unfasten, unwind, unyoke), uvolnit (disembody, disengage, dislodge, free, let loose, loose, relax, release, undo, unfix, unpin, unscrew, unstop, unstrap, untie, vacate, weaken), rozvázat (loose, loosen, unbind, uncord, undo, unfasten, unstring, untie, untuck), roztát (thaw), rozmrznout, rozmrazit (defrost, thaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | libérer (unfetter, unshackle, unstitch), dégeler, dégazer, débloquer (unblock). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | freigeben (declassify, decontrol, enable, float, free, give a holiday, open, release, set free, to enable, unblock, unhand, unpeg), auftauen (defrost, loosen up, melt, thaw, to defrost, unbend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"פשיר (defrost, melt, temper, thaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kiolvaszt (cupel, ran, run, to render, to run, to smelt), felolvaszt (smelt, thaw, to dissolve, to found, to smelt, to thaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | scongelare (defrost, thaw, thaw out). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuriojey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eezeunfray descongelar-se, descongelar (defreeze, defrost). (various references) размораживать (defreeze, defrost). (various references) odmrznuti (defreeze, defrost). (various references) descongelar (defreeze, defrost, thaw). (various references) serbest bırakmak (affranchise, deblock, decontrol, deliver, discharge, disentangle, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate, free, give a horse the reins, give smb. his head, let go, let go one's hold of, let loose, let off, liberate, loose, manumit, release, relinquish, set at large, set at liberty, set free, slip, unbind, unchain, unhitch, unloose, unrein, unshackle), eritmek (dissolve, fuse, fuze, make a dent in, melt, reduce, render, smelt, thaw, whittle away, whittle off), buzunu çözmek (de-ice). (various references) розморозитися, розморожувати (defreeze, defrost, thaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "unfreeze": unfreezes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-n-r-u-z" | |
-2 letters: freeze, unfree. | |
-3 letters: enure, feeze, furze, fuzee. | |
-4 letters: erne, fere, fern, free, fuze, reef, rune. | |
-5 letters: ere, ern, fee, fen, fer, feu, fez, fun, fur, nee, ree, ref, rue, run, urn, zee. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-f-n-r-u-z" | |
+1 letter: unfreezes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 66 72 65 65 7A 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. ..-. .-. . . --.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100110 01110010 01100101 01100101 01111010 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n f r e e z e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0066 0072 0065 0065 007A 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580728471719271 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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