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frost

noun

  1. coating or deposit of ice that may form in humid air in cold conditions, usually overnight
  2. cold weather
  3. cover with whitish, semi-opaque surface, as ice
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verb

  1. cover with whitish, semi-opaque surface, as ice
  2. decorate with frosting,
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /fɹɒst/ / /fɹɔst/ / /fɹɑst/

name

Etymology: English, German, Swedish and Danish surname, all from the noun frost.

  1. A surname.

    “A video filmed and shared on the social media site Bluesky by Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost, also a Democrat, shows Hairfield outside the building and several officers from the federal Department of Homeland Security behind the doors, labeled “All Access Entrance.””

  2. A number of places in the United States:
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  4. A number of places in the United States:
  5. A number of places in the United States:
  6. A number of places in the United States:
  7. A number of places in the United States:

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *prews- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *prustós Proto-Germanic *frustaz Proto-West Germanic *frost Old English frost Middle English frost English frost From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Froast, Fröäst (“frost”), West Frisian froast (“frost”), Cimbrian bròst, vrost, vròst (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Luxembourgish Frascht (“frost”), Vilamovian fröst (“frost”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze.

  1. A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.
  2. The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.

    “Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.”

    “It is more probable, in almost every country of Europe, that there will be frost sometime in January, than that the weather will continue open throughout that whole month;”

  3. Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.

    “It was one of those moments of intense feeling when the frost of the Scottish people melts like a snow-wreath.”

    “Up to that time the girl had never really done her hair, and she regarded boots merely as things to protect the feet. Suddenly it dawned on her that she was considered plain and that she diffused an atmosphere of intellectual frost.”

  4. The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.
  5. A shade of white, like that of frost.
  6. A disappointment; a cheat.
  7. A kind of light diffuser.

    “Frosts and diffusion are flame retardant and produce similar results except that some of the frosts are very subtle in their effects. For example: Hamburg Frost will soften the beam edge with little additional spread of the beam.”

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *prews- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *prustós Proto-Germanic *frustaz Proto-West Germanic *frost Old English frost Middle English frost English frost From Middle English frost, from an unmetathesized variant of Old English forst (“frost”), from Proto-Germanic *frustaz (“frost”), from Proto-Indo-European *prews- (“to freeze; frost”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Froast, Fröäst (“frost”), West Frisian froast (“frost”), Cimbrian bròst, vrost, vròst (“frost”), Dutch vorst (“frost”), German Frost (“frost”), Luxembourgish Frascht (“frost”), Vilamovian fröst (“frost”), Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish frost (“frost”), Latin pruīna (“hoarfrost, frost, rime, snow”). Related to freeze.

  1. To cover with frost.
  2. To become covered with frost.

    ““The weather is pleasant while it frosted a little at night.””

  3. To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.
  4. To anger or annoy.

    “I think the boss's decision frosted him a bit.”

  5. To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.
  6. To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.