chill
adjective
- mellow, agreeable
noun
- state of low temperature
- feeling of coldness, sign of fever
- object used to produce solidification in a specific part of a metal casting mold
- to cool, dispirit or unsettle
verb
- hang out, relax
- to cool, dispirit or unsettle
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /tʃɪl/ / /tʃəl/ / /dʒɪl(lɯ)/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English chele, chile, from Old English ċiele, ċele (“cold; coldness”), from Proto-West Germanic *kali, from Proto-Germanic *kaliz, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to be cold”). Closely related with Dutch kil. Also akin to cool, cold, gel, and congeal, which see.
- Moderately cold or chilly.
“A chill wind was blowing down the street.”
“Noisome winds, and blasting vapours chill.”
- Unwelcoming; not cordial.
“Arriving late at the wedding, we were met with a chill reception.”
- Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
“The teacher is really chill and doesn't care if you use your phone during class.”
“Paint-your-own ceramics studios are a chill way to express yourself while learning more about your date's right brain.”
- "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
“That new movie was chill, man.”
- Okay, not a problem.
“Sorry about that. —It's chill.”
contraction
Etymology: From Middle English ichille, equivalent to ch- + will, from ich + will.
- I will
“Chill not let go, zir, without vurther 'casion”
“Yet since their eyes make hart so sore, hey ho, chill love no more.”
name
- Acronym of CCITT High Level Language.
noun
- A kind of lamp that burns fish oil.
“There is a last antiquity, and perhaps not least interesting, in "the Chill" or fish oil lamp, peculiar to Cornwall and a remote age, which now I lay before you. These lamps are rarely, very rarely seen, never in use, and passing from the memories of all but the very aged.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English chillen, from Old English ċilian (“to be cold”), from Proto-West Germanic *kilēn (“to be cold”). Cognate with Middle Dutch killen (“to be cold”), Dutch killen (“to be cold, shiver”).
- To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
“Chill before serving.”
- To become cold.
“In the wind he chilled quickly.”
- To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- To become hard by rapid cooling.
- To relax; to lie back; to take things easy.
“Chill, man, we've got a whole week to do it; no sense in getting worked up.”
“The new gym teacher really has to chill or he's gonna blow a gasket.”
- To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group.
“Hey, we should chill this weekend.”
“He likes to chill with his friends on Saturdays.”
- To smoke marijuana.
“On Friday night do you wanna chill?”
- To discourage, depress.
“Censorship chills public discourse.”