Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Adapted to cool and refresh: as, a cooling drink.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Adapted to cool and refresh; allaying heat.
  • adjective [Obs.] something that dashes hopes.
  • adjective (Law) such a lapse of time as ought, taking all the circumstances of the case in view, to produce a subsiding of passion previously provoked.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of cool.
  • noun a decrease in temperature
  • noun refrigeration
  • adjective that cools

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a mechanism for keeping something cool
  • noun the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature

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Examples

  • The nutballs who crow that any cooling anywhere overturns entirely the blame placed on AGW for climate change, both need to take a beginners course in statistics and probability, and need to consider the current AGW-masked _cooling cycle_, which, if it didn't erupt somewhere occasionally, would be behaving very strangely indeed. xanthian.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • CLANCY: For instance in St. Louis, Missouri, city workers going door to door here encouraging people to seek comfort at various what they call cooling centers.

    CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2007 2007

  • And usually what we see is the perpetrator strikes out, and then there ` s what we call a cooling-off period, and then they strike out again.

    CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2007 2007

  • I think President Bush intervened in good faith here to try to provide what he identified as a cooling-off period, and I think that by the time that that cooling-off period has expired, 45 days, this will be a memory rather than an issue.

    CNN Transcript May 29, 2006 2006

  • Clements was enjoying what he called his cooling ale, his standard after-dinner drink; not for him a port or a brandy, he was Aussie right through to his liver.

    Autumn Maze Cleary, Jon, 1917- 1994

  • What is more, no one can really help us or deliver us: we can be made a little more comfortable, and that's all, by what they call cooling drinks, and flowers in a vase by the bedside.

    Father Payne Benson, Arthur C. 1915

  • And a lot of other places have done this, too, from time to time for what they called a cooling-off period because they thought that people had just gotten too violent in their speech and too out of hand.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • In the highlands where Dawg lives with homes at both 5,000 and 7,000 feet, no cooling is ever required except ceiling fans if you buy in the right location.

    About Ajijic, food, music, people, and the "social life" 2009

  • In the highlands where Dawg lives with homes at both 5,000 and 7,000 feet, no cooling is ever required except ceiling fans if you buy in the right location.

    About Ajijic, food, music, people, and the "social life" 2009

  • In the highlands where Dawg lives with homes at both 5,000 and 7,000 feet, no cooling is ever required except ceiling fans if you buy in the right location.

    About Ajijic, food, music, people, and the "social life" 2009

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