cool : Idioms & Phrases


air-cool

  • verb equip with an apparatus for controlling the humidity and temperature
    air-condition; air-cool.
    • Our house is not air-conditioned
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air-cooled

  • verb equip with an apparatus for controlling the humidity and temperature
    air-condition; air-cool.
    • Our house is not air-conditioned
  • adjective satellite cooled by a flow of air
    • an air-cooled engine
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cool down

  • verb make cool or cooler
    chill; cool.
    • Chill the food
  • verb lose intensity
    cool down; cool.
    • His enthusiasm cooled considerably
  • verb loose heat
    chill; cool.
    • The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm
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cool it

  • verb become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation
    calm; calm down; simmer down; cool it; chill out; settle down.
    • After the fight both men need to cool off.
    • It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again.
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cool jazz

  • noun jazz that is restrained and fluid and marked by intricate harmonic structures often lagging slightly behind the beat
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cool off

  • verb become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation
    calm; calm down; simmer down; cool it; chill out; settle down.
    • After the fight both men need to cool off.
    • It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again.
  • verb lose intensity
    cool down; cool.
    • His enthusiasm cooled considerably
  • verb feel less enamoured of something or somebody
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cool one's heels

  • verb wait or pass the time aimlessly or futilely; be kept waiting
    kick one's heels.
    • She kicked her heels for hours at the gate of the Embassy
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cool-headed

Cool"-head`ed adjective
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  1. Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion. -- Cool"-head`ed*ness, n.
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cool-white

  • adjective satellite of white tinged with blue
    bluish-white; blue-white.
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cooling system

  • noun equipment in a motor vehicle that cools the engine
    cooling system.
  • noun a mechanism for keeping something cool
    cooling.
    • the cooling was overhead fans
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cooling tower

  • noun a cooling system used in industry to cool hot water (by partial evaporation) before reusing it as a coolant
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engine cooling system

  • noun equipment in a motor vehicle that cools the engine
    cooling system.
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evaporative cooler

  • noun a cooling system that cools by evaporation
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gas-cooled reactor

  • noun a nuclear reactor using gas as a coolant
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To cool the heels

  • to dance attendance; to wait, as for admission to a patron's house. Colloq.
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water cooler

  • noun a device for cooling and dispensing drinking water
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water-cooled

  • adjective satellite kept cool or designed to be kept cool by means of water especially circulating water
    • a water-cooled engine
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water-cooled reactor

  • noun nuclear reactor using water as a coolant
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Wine cooler

  • noun a bucket of ice used to chill a bottle of wine
    wine bucket.
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  • a vessel of porous earthenware used to cool wine by the evaporation of water; also, a stand for wine bottles, containing ice.
Webster 1913