cool·er /ˈkulɚ/
冷卻器
cooler
冷卻器
cooler
冷卻器
Cool a. [Compar. Cooler superl. Coolest.]
1. Moderately cold; between warm and cold; lacking in warmth; producing or promoting coolness.
Fanned with cool winds. --Milton.
2. Not ardent, warm, fond, or passionate; not hasty; deliberate; exercising self-control; self-possessed; dispassionate; indifferent; as, a cool lover; a cool debater.
For a patriot, too cool. --Goldsmith.
3. Not retaining heat; light; as, a cool dress.
4. Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.
5. Quietly impudent; negligent of propriety in matters of minor importance, either ignorantly or willfully; presuming and selfish; audacious; as, cool behavior.
Its cool stare of familiarity was intolerable. --Hawthorne.
6. Applied facetiously, in a vague sense, to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
He had lost a cool hundred. --Fielding.
Leaving a cool thousand to Mr. Matthew Pocket. --Dickens.
Syn: -- Calm; dispassionate; self-possessed; composed; repulsive; frigid; alienated; impudent.
Cool·er n. That which cools, or abates heat or excitement.
If acid things were used only as coolers, they would not be so proper in this case. --Arbuthnot.
2. Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.
◄ ►
cooler
n 1: a refrigerator for cooling liquids [syn: ice chest]
2: an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice
3: a cell for violent prisoners [syn: tank]