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COOLER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A refrigerator for cooling liquids
Synonyms:
cooler; ice chest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cooler" is a kind of...):
icebox; refrigerator (white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures)
Derivation:
cool (make cool or cooler)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A cell for violent prisoners
Synonyms:
cooler; tank
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cooler" is a kind of...):
cell; jail cell; prison cell (a room where a prisoner is kept)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("cooler" is a kind of...):
beverage; drink; drinkable; potable (any liquid suitable for drinking)
Derivation:
cool (make cool or cooler)
Context examples:
Formation of particles by solidification of dispersed droplets within a cooler gas.
(Cooling/Congealing Particle Sizing, NCI Thesaurus)
In addition, Sargassum only grows well when salinity is normal and surface temperatures are normal or cooler.
(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)
The affected regions become cooler than their surroundings and appear dark in comparison.
(Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster, NASA)
The result is mean climate temperatures that are actually a few degrees cooler than Earth’s today.
(NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable, NASA)
Hot Jupiters are large by planet standards, and they radiate more light than cooler planets.
(Cooking up Alien Atmospheres on Earth, NASA)
On the cooler, dark side of the planet, the atoms can recombine into molecules and condense into clouds, all before drifting back into the dayside to be splintered again.
(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)
The findings indicate that WASP-18b has hot carbon monoxide in the stratosphere and cooler carbon monoxide in the layer of the atmosphere below, called the troposphere.
(WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water, NASA)
Cooler and fresher at the moment the gale seemed to visit my brow: I could have deemed that in some wild, lone scene, I and Jane were meeting.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was very clear to me that if dangers lay before us I could not in all England have found a cooler head or a braver spirit with which to share them.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I trust I give no offence to the companion of my youth, in submitting this proposition to his cooler judgement?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
