cold and wintry

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• Cold air damming — Cold air damming, or CAD, is a meteorological phenomenon that involves a high pressure system interacting with local geographic features. A cold air damming situation typically involves a high pressure system located poleward of a mountain range …   Wikipedia

• wintry — UK [ˈwɪntrɪ] / US adjective Word forms wintry : adjective wintry comparative wintrier superlative wintriest 1) a) cold and typical of winter a cold wintry night the wintry landscape b) wintry sunlight is pale, and produces little warmth 2)… …   English dictionary

• wintry — win|try [ wıntri ] adjective 1. ) cold and typical of winter: a cold wintry night the wintry landscape a ) wintry SUNLIGHT is pale, and produces little warmth 2. ) deliberately unfriendly: a wintry smile …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• wintry — [[t]wɪ̱ntri[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Wintry weather is cold and has features that are typical of winter. Wintry weather continues to sweep across Britain... A wintry wind was blowing. ...a dark wintry day. 2) ADJ GRADED If you describe… …   English dictionary

• wintry — [ˈwɪntri] adj cold and typical of winter …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• cold — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. iciness; ailment, flu. adj. chilling (see cold); unheated; unresponsive, indifferent, unenthusiastic. See cold, disease, insensibility. II Condition of low temperature Nouns 1. cold, coldness,… …   English dictionary for students

• cold wave — Synonyms and related words: Afro, bitter weather, bleak weather, coif, coiffure, cold snap, cold weather, conk, depth of winter, freeze, freezing weather, frost, haircut, hairdo, hairstyle, hard winter, headdress, home permanent, natural,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• cold — Synonyms and related words: Asiatic flu, Hong Kong flu, Laodicean, Olympian, Siberian, abruptly, absolutely, acute bronchitis, adenoiditis, affectless, ague, aguey, aguish, algid, aloof, aluminosis, amygdalitis, anesthetized, anthracosilicosis,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• wintry — Synonyms and related words: Siberian, aestival, algid, arctic, autumn, autumnal, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brisk, brumal, canicular, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, crisp, cutting …   Moby Thesaurus

• Chill and fever — Chill Chill (ch[i^]l), n. [AS. cele, cyle, from the same root as celan, calan, to be cold; akin to D. kil cold, coldness, Sw. kyla to chill, and E. cool. See {Cold}, and cf. {Cool}.] [1913 Webster] 1. A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Rain and snow mixed — Not to be confused with Freezing rain or Ice pellets. Part of the Nature series on Weather   Calendar seasons Sprin …   Wikipedia