Freeze-up

Definition

freeze / fri:z / v ( pt froze / frǝƱz /; pp frozen / 'frǝƱzn/ ) ၁။ (က) ခဲသည္။ ခဲေစသည္။ Water freezes at 0¹ C. ❍ It's so cold that even the river has frozen. ❍ The cold weather is freezing the milk outside people's back doors. Compare THAW ❍ WATER 1 (ခ) ~ (sth) (up) ခဲသည္။ The land itself freezes at such low temperatures. ❍ The clothes froze (solid) on the washing line. ❍ The sudden drop in temperature froze (up) the locks on my car. ❍ The pipes have frozen (up), so we've got no water. ၂။ (က) ေရခဲသည္။ It may freeze tonight, so make sure you bring those plants inside. ❍ It's freezing (hard) outside. (ခ) အေအးဒဏ္ ခံစားရသည္။ Every time she opens the window we all freeze. ❍ Two men froze to death/were frozen to death on the mountain. ၃။ (က) ေရခဲ႐ိုက္သည္။ Is this cake suitable for freezing? ❍ I buy enough cheese for several months and freeze it. ❍ Strawberries don't taste nice if they've been frozen. (ခ) ေရခဲ႐ိုက္ရသည္။ ။ Some fruits freeze better than others. ၄။ (က) မွင္တက္မိေနသည္။ ၾကက္ေသ ေသသည္။ When she saw all the blood, she froze. ❍ I froze with terror as the door slowly opened. (ခ) (ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕ဝင္က မလႈပ္ႏွင့္ဟု အမိန္႔ေပး၍) တန္႔ရပ္သည္။ He shouted ‘Freeze!’ and I dropped the gun. ၅။ (႐ုပ္ရွင္ ႐ိုက္ရင္း၊ ျပရင္း တစ္ကြက္တည္း ၌) ရပ္ထားသည္။ Freeze the action there! ၆။ (လုပ္ခ၊ ေဈးႏႈန္းစသည္ကို အဆင့္တစ္ခုခုတြင္) တန္႔ထားသည္။ Salaries have been frozen for the current year. ၇။ (ဘဏ္စာရင္း၊ အရင္းအႏီွးစသည္ကို သံုးစြဲျခင္းမွ ႐ံုးမိန္႔ျဖင့္) ပိတ္ထားသည္။ freeze a society's funds ❍ The company's assets have been frozen. n ၁။ (also freeze-up ) ေရခဲခ်ိန္။ last year's big freeze ❍ After the last freeze-up we put insulation round the pipes. ၂။ ေဈးႏႈန္း၊ လုပ္ခစသည္ ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ကန္႔သတ္သည့္ကာလ။ a wage/price freeze. ❏ freeze one's blood/make one's blood freeze [ IDM ] ၾကက္ေသ ေသသည္။ မွင္တက္မိေစသည္။ အမ္းသြားေစ သည္။ The sight of the masked gunman made my blood freeze. ❏ freeze-dry v ( pt, pp -dried) စားဖြယ္ကို ေလဟာနယ္တြင္ ႐ုတ္တရက္ ေအးခဲေစျခင္းျဖင့္ တာရွည္ခံေအာင္ေသြ႕သည္။ ခဲေသြ႕ သည္။ ❏ freeze sb out [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ပ ထုတ္သည္။ ၾကဥ္ ထားသည္။ ေရွာင္ဖယ္ဖယ္လုပ္သည္။ I tried to talk to her about it but she just froze me out. ❏ freeze (sth) over [ PHRV ] ေရခဲသည္။ ေရခဲ ဖံုးေနသည္။ The lake was frozen over until late spring. ❏ freezing-point (also freezing ) n [U] ေရခဲ မွတ္။ The freezing-point of water is 0¹C. ❍ Tonight temperatures everywhere will be well below freezing.

Examples

1. The lake freezes in winter.
2. [frozen solid] : The water in the cat’s bowl was frozen solid.
3. Liquid nitrogen freezes at minus 209 degrees Celsius.
4. The soil had frozen.
5. The blanket had frozen to the windscreen.
6. You should freeze meat on the day that you buy it.
7. Strawberries don’t freeze very well.
8. The embryos are frozen at minus 20 degrees and stored.
9. You’ll freeze if you go out in that thin coat.
10. [freeze to death] : The lambs looked as if they had frozen to death in the snow.
11. Freeze! Don’t move a muscle!
12. Kate froze in horror when she saw all the blood.
13. [frozen to the spot] : I stood frozen to the spot
14. unable to believe my eyes.
15. Their wine glasses frozen in mid-air
16. they all stared at me.
17. It seemed as though time had frozen.
18. Wages were frozen until the end of December.
19. We are freezing prices at 2006 levels.
20. The courts have frozen her bank account.
21. [freeze someone’s assets] : The company’s assets could be frozen by the banks.