Freeze \Freeze\, v. t. 1. To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
2. To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
A faint, cold fear runs through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life. --Shak.
{To freeze out}, to drive out or exclude by cold or by cold treatment; to force to withdraw; as, to be frozen out of one's room in winter; to freeze out a competitor. [Colloq.]
A railroad which had a London connection must not be allowed to freeze out one that had no such connection. --A. T. Hadley.
It is sometimes a long time before a player who is frozen out can get into a game again. --R. F. Foster. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Freeze \Freeze\ (fr[=e]z), n. (Arch.) A frieze. [Obs.]
Freeze \Freeze\, v. i. [imp. {Froze} (fr[=o]z); p. p. {Frozen} (fr[=o]"z'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Freezing}.] [OE. fresen, freosen, AS. fre['o]san; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushv[=a] ice, prush to spirt. ? 18. Cf. {Frost}.] 1. To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.
Note: Water freezes at 32[deg] above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40[deg] below zero.
2. To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.
{To freeze up} (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.]
Freeze \Freeze\, n. The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed. [Colloq.]
The Justice Department, meanwhile, asked authorities in Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and Britain to freeze bank accounts in which Noriega is believed to have stashed millions of dollars in illegal drug profits.
The highly controversial theory says such impacts kicked up dust and triggered smoky fires that blocked enough sunlight to freeze many creatures and deprive others of food supplies.
In Switzerland, the Justice Minister said Sunday that a "precautionary" freeze has been placed on any assets that may be held in Switzerland by Ceausescu and his family.
The freeze does not mean that the 5m public sector workers will get no pay rise, but that any increase must be paid for by improved productivity or reduced staff.
In the short term the only way to make large cuts in public expenditures - barring a wages freeze on which the prime minister remains a little vague - is through cuts in capital investment in projects.
The SEC has been successful at convincing courts to freeze the assets of alleged wrongdoers before they can complete the sales of securities and take the funds out.
'It's too early to pinpoint, but people should be aware that this market has the potential to get there,' she said. 'In the past we had a freeze and the trees were healthy.
The court-ordered freeze will be in effect until next Friday, during which a receiver, Los Angeles lawyer Robert Carlson will try to determine where the funds are.
The house was responding to the decision by Opec to freeze oil production, rather than increase it as had been feared.
Zurich authorities also indefinitely extended the freeze on assets believed to be linked to Mr. Marcos and his associates.
But where I differ with my opponent is, I am not going to make unilateral cuts in our strategic defense systems or support some freeze when they have superiority.
Soybean futures gave up most of the previous session's gains Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade, retreating along with corn futures prices as fears of an early freeze in the Midwest faded.
Or cool (you may freeze at this point) and refrigerate, covered.
The government, he said, implemented UN sanctions immediately and local financial institutions were under strict instructions to freeze transfers of Yugoslav funds.
Also yesterday, the Bank Board said the federal appeals court in Dallas upheld its authority to freeze the assets of six former officers and directors of a defunct thrift, Vernon Savings & Loan Association, Vernon, Texas.
The three-day freeze, which ruined much of the south Texas citrus crop and dumped snow on Houston, killed thousands of fish along the Texas coast.
Lotus Development announced a cost-cutting program that includes a hiring freeze and layoffs.
Reduced oil income also contributed to a drain on foreign reserves currently used to support an anti-inflationary peso currency freeze against the dollar.
Meanwhile, Congress welcomed Bush's moves Thursday to divorce the United States economically from Iraq and to freeze assets of Iraq and Kuwait.
The farmers complained to Martens that they have to pay more for what they buy but earn less from selling their produce because of an EC farm price freeze introduced to reduce the EC farm budget.
The reason for a spending freeze is the belief that we are unwilling to take the federal spending program apart, throwing out or cutting down the pieces that are no longer worth the money.
Lifting the freeze, which caused immediate price rises of between 30% and 40% for many goods, amounted to the government's first formal recognition of the collapse of its Cruzado plan.
With the help of the Gramm-Rudman law and a flexible budget freeze, a balanced budget can be expected by 1993.
He was a leading congressional opponent of a nuclear freeze proposal and has been wary of arms control agreements.
Mr. Bush's proposed "flexible freeze" in the budget would allow spending to rise only enough to match inflation.
In 1988, senior flight attendants at Alaska Airlines agreed to a two-year pay freeze so that their lower-tier employees could get a 10% raise.
Dissatisfaction by many union members dates back to 1985, when the unions agreed to a two-year wage freeze and took one-time bonuses instead.
The report cited sharp increases in purchases of imported vehicles, color televisions, motorcycles, air conditioners, sofas and carpets despite a government freeze on buying such items.
The complexity of the problem requires additional international cooperation, in particular to trace, freeze and confiscate the proceeds of drug traffickers, and to curb money laundering.
During the presidential campaign, the flexible freeze became Bush's all-purpose answer to queries on how he planned to increase spending for a variety of domestic programs while still lowering the budget deficit without an increase in taxes.