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Definition: Frost |
FrostNoun1. Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside). 2. Weather cold enough to cause freezing. 3. The formation of frost or ice on a surface. 4. American poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963). Verb1. Decorate with frosting; "frost a cake". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "frost" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | An old flame after the engagement is broken off. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Bible | Frost (Heb. kerah, from its smoothness) Job 37:10 (R.V., "ice"); Gen. 31:40; Jer. 36:30; rendered "ice" in Job 6:16, 38:29; and "crystal" in Ezek. 1:22. "At the present day frost is entirely unknown in the lower portions of the valley of the Jordan, but slight frosts are sometimes felt on the sea-coast and near Lebanon." Throughout Western Asia cold frosty nights are frequently succeeded by warm days. "Hoar frost" (Heb. kephor, so called from its covering the ground) is mentioned in Ex. 16:14; Job 38:29; Ps. 147:16. In Ps. 78:47 the word rendered "frost" (R.V. marg., "great hail-stones"), _hanamal_, occurs only there. It is rendered by Gesenius, the Hebrew lexicographer, "ant," and so also by others, but the usual interpretation derived from the ancient versions may be maintained. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of seeing frost on a dark gloomy morning, signifies exile to a strange country, but your wanderings will end in peace. To see frost on a small sunlit landscape, signifies gilded pleasures from which you will be glad to turn later in life, and by your exemplary conduct will succeed in making your circle forget past escapades. To dream that you see a friend in a frost, denotes a love affair in which your rival will be worsted. For a young woman, this dream signifies the absence of her lover and danger of his affections waning. This dream is bad for all classes in business and love. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Geography | A light feathery deposit of ice caused by the condensation of water vapour directly in the crystalline form, on terrestrial objects whose temperatures are below freezing, the process being the same by which dew is formed, except that the latter occurs only when the temperature of the bedewed object is above freezing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Frost Jack Frost. The personification of frost. "Jack Frost looked forth one still, clear night, And he said, `Now I shall be out of sight: So over the valley and over the height In silence I'll take my way.'" Miss Gould. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mechanical Engineering | In common language prevalence of air temperature below 0 degree C. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Water vapour frozen on a surface. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Personal Care & Hotels | To cover a cake, pie or an entremets with a creamy sauce just before serving it. Source: European Union. (references) |
Public Administration | Fall in the temperature of the air to 0°C or below, caused by freezing on the ground or in the air. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | Ice crystals formed by deposition of water vapor on a relatively cold surface. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(This article is about the weather phenomenon. Frost is also the name of a place; see Frost, Minnesota.)
Frost, like snow, is the result of deposition of water vapor in saturated air. If solid surfaces in contact with the air are chilled below the deposition point, then spicules of ice grow out from the solid surface. The size of the crystals is a matter of time and the amount of water vapor available.
Frost is often observed around cracks in wooden sidewalks due to the moist air escaping from the ground below. Other objects which frost develops on are those with low specific heat and high thermal emissivity, such as blackened metals; hence the accumulation of frost on the heads of rusty nails. The apparently erratic occurrence of frost in adjacent localities is due partly to differences of altitude, the lower areas becoming colder. It is also affected by differences in absorbtivity and specific heat of the ground which in the absence of wind greatly influences the temperature attained by the superincumbent air. It should be understood that vegetation is not damaged by frost itself, but by cold air; the appearance of frost merely indicates that the temperature has dropped below the freezing point. The formation of white frost on the indoor surface of window panes indicates low relative humidity of the indoor air, otherwise water would first condense in small drops and then freeze into clear ice.
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Frost is a city located in Faribault County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 251.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.4 km² (0.5 mi²). 1.4 km² (0.5 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 251 people, 115 households, and 66 families residing in the city. The population density is 182.9/km² (476.7/mi²). There are 126 housing units at an average density of 91.8/km² (239.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 96.81% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.40% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 2.79% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 2.79% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 115 households out of which 32.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.5% are married couples living together, 9.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 42.6% are non-families. 40.0% of all households are made up of individuals and 25.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.18 and the average family size is 2.94. In the city the population is spread out with 27.9% under the age of 18, 9.6% from 18 to 24, 27.5% from 25 to 44, 14.7% from 45 to 64, and 20.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 87.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 81.0 males. The median income for a household in the city is $26,389, and the median income for a family is $34,792. Males have a median income of $27,708 versus $23,750 for females. The per capita income for the city is $14,756. 12.8% of the population and 8.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 16.7% are under the age of 18 and 18.2% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Frost, Minnesota."
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Frost is a city located in Navarro County, Texas. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 648.Geography
Frost is located at 32°4'45" North, 96°48'31" West (32.079218, -96.808544)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.0 km² (1.1 mi²). 2.9 km² (1.1 mi²) of it is land and 0.88% is water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 648 people, 225 households, and 175 families residing in the city. The population density is 221.4/km² (572.8/mi²). There are 250 housing units at an average density of 85.4/km² (221.0/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 78.40% White, 7.25% African American, 0.15% Native American, 1.23% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 12.35% from other races, and 0.62% from two or more races. 17.13% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 225 households out of which 42.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.9% are married couples living together, 11.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 22.2% are non-families. 20.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 13.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.84 and the average family size is 3.29. In the city the population is spread out with 31.3% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 28.4% from 25 to 44, 17.9% from 45 to 64, and 13.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 33 years. For every 100 females there are 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 89.4 males. The median income for a household in the city is $33,750, and the median income for a family is $38,382. Males have a median income of $30,469 versus $19,688 for females. The per capita income for the city is $17,350. 15.5% of the population and 13.7% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 15.0% are under the age of 18 and 8.8% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Frost, Texas."
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Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963) was, in the estimation of many Americans, the greatest American poet of the 20th century, and one of the greatest poets writing in English of the 20th century. Frost received 4 Pulitzer Prizes.Frost, although most associated with New England, was born in San Francisco and lived in California until he was 11. Frost grew up as a city boy and published his first poem in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He attended Dartmouth College and Harvard University but did not complete a degree. But he purchased a farm in Derry, New Hampshire and eventually became known for a wry voice that was both rural and personal.
In 1912 he sold his farmand moved to England to become a full-time poet. His first book of poetry, A Boy's Will, was published the next year. He returned to America in 1915, bought a farm in Franconia, New Hampshire and launched a career of writing, teaching and lecturing.
He recited his work, "The Gift Outright", at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and represented the United States on several official missions.
He also became known for poems that include an interplay of voices, such as "Death of the Hired Man". American schoolchildren often memorize his poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". Other poems include "Mending Wall", "Birches", "After Apple Picking", "The Pasture", and "Fire and Ice".
On his passing in 1963, Robert Frost was buried in the Old Bennington Cemetery, in Bennington, Vermont.
Books of Poetry
- A Boy's Will 1913
- North of Boston 1914
- Mountain Interval 1916
- New Hampshire 1923 (Pulitzer Prize in poetry)
- West-Running Brook 1928
- The Lovely Shall Be Chooser 1929
- Collected Poems 1930 (Pulitzer Prize in poetry)
- The Lone Striker 1933
- From Snow to Snow 1936
- A Further Range 1936 (Pulitzer Prize in poetry)
- A Witness Tree 1942 (Pulitzer Prize in poetry)
- Come In, and Other Poems 1943
- Masque of Reason 1945
- Steeple Bush 1947
- Hard Not to be King 1951
- In the Clearing 1962
External links
- WikiQuotes of Robert Frost
- Bibliography of Frost's works
- Project Gutenberg e-texts of some of Robert Frost's works
- Several of Frost's books
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Synonyms: FrostSynonyms: freeze (n), hoar (n), hoarfrost (n), icing (n), rime (n), ice (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bubble | Cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser; scud, messenger, rack, nimbus; cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus; cirrostratus, cumulostratus; cirrocumulus; mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky; curl cloud; frost smoke; thunderhead. |
Cold | Ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze, lolly; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; nev_e, serac; pruina. |
Ornament | Pattern, diaper, powdering, paneling, graining, pargeting; detail; repousse (convexity); texture; richness; tracery, molding, fillet, listel, strapwork, coquillage, flourish, fleur-de-lis, arabesque, fret, anthemion; egg and tongue, egg and dart; astragal, zigzag, acanthus, cartouche; pilaster; (projection); bead, beading; champleve ware, cloisonne ware; frost work, Moresque, Morisco, tooling. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Dahlgren is my maiden name, Frost is my married name (Uncle Buck; writing credit: John Hughes.) Jack Frost nipping at your toes, Mr. Peterson (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) Oh, come on, Sam, we don't even know if it's Jack Frost. (Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman; writing credit: Michael Cooney) | |
Lyrics | Through descending snow, and through the frost and thunder (On The Road To Find Out; performing artist: Cat Stevens) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Frost Programme (1972) Frost Over America (1971) The David Frost Revue (1971) Frost on Sunday (1968) David Frost Presents (1967) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Tower at Station Indian covered with ice and frost Station is just below the Arctic Circle Triangulation party of Walter R. Helm. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Beautiful frost patterns develop on the windows of the Clean Air Facility. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | A heavy frost and freeze make a striking scene along a buffer in central Iowa. Credit: Roger Hill. |  | Frost and ice form a beautiful snowscape in a conservation buffer along Bear Creek in central Iowa, in Story County. Credit: Roger Hill. |
 | [Army Nurses 2nd Lt. Ruth A. Frost and 2nd Lt. Ruth E. Allair, Kunming, China]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Theater Square, Grandfather Frost performs for 1999 New Year's, Arkhangelsk, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
 | Tourists riding bicycles] / A.B. Frost. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Oh, I hope it doesn't get frost bitten!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Martyrs to duty. Late frost which nipped the buds of our nice plant makes it our duty ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "White Face Bear," "Chief Plenty Coos" and "Frost," Sioux and Crow chiefs arriving at White House to visit Pres. Harding. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Frost" by Pedro Valdeolmillos Commentary: "Branches covered with frost." | "Tree frost" by Craig Young Commentary: "Trees caught in low sun covered in frost Feb 03." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Fuller | The frost is God's plough which he drives through every inch of ground in the world, opening each clod, and pulverizing the whole. |
James Whitcomb Riley | O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock. |
Joseph Addison | Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other. |
Robert Frost | Good fences make good neighbors. |
| A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork. | |
Theodore Parker | Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. |
Whittier | The tents of autumn -- a mighty flower garden, blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost. |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They dwelt not in dormitories warmed only in the bitterest frost of winter, but in cells where fire was never kindled |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The night air was cold with the first sting of frost. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It was a rather cool evening, and some of his neighbors were apprehending a frost. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Hrachovy, R, and Frost, J. Infantile Spasms. (references) | |
Business | According to a recent study by the international marketing consulting company Frost & Sullivan, the commercialization of technology in more efficient and reliable integral horsepower motors is transforming the AC market, and demand for such motors is increasing. (references) | |
Economic History | Algeria | Frost and snow are rare, except on the highest slopes of the Tellian Atlas Mountains. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost. |
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| "Frost" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.44% of the time. "Frost" is used about 899 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 68.44% | 615 | 10,493 |
| Noun (proper) | 31.56% | 284 | 17,292 |
| Total | 100.00% | 899 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "frost" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Frost | Last name | 16,000 | 728 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "frost". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Korah | N/A | Biblical | Frost |
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1. Frost, MN (city, FIPS 22940) 2. Frost, TX (town, FIPS 27768) |
Expressions using "frost": be killed by frost ♦ black frost ♦ blighted by frost ♦ covered with frost ♦ damaged by frost ♦ dead frost ♦ degree of frost ♦ degrees of frost ♦ ever frost ♦ Frost bearer ♦ frost bite ♦ frost blasting ♦ frost boil ♦ frost bursting ♦ frost damage ♦ frost fish ♦ frost fog ♦ frost formation ♦ Frost grape ♦ frost heave ♦ frost heaving ♦ frost hole ♦ frost hollow ♦ frost injury ♦ Frost lamp ♦ frost line ♦ frost locality ♦ frost mist ♦ Frost nail ♦ frost over ♦ frost pocket ♦ frost pockets ♦ frost precautions ♦ frost prying ♦ frost rending ♦ frost riving ♦ frost shattering,frost splitting ♦ Frost signal ♦ frost smoke ♦ frost snow ♦ frost spot ♦ Frost valve ♦ frost weathering ♦ frost wedging ♦ frost work ♦ glazed frost ♦ ground frost ♦ hard frost ♦ hoar frost ♦ jack frost ♦ keen frost ♦ night frost ♦ perpetual frost climate ♦ radiation frost ♦ Robert Frost ♦ Robert Lee Frost ♦ the frost blasted the flowers ♦ white frost ♦ wind frost. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "frost": frost-bearded, frost-bite, Frost-bitten, frost-blackened, Frost-blite, frost-blue, frost-bound, frost-burn, frost-burned, frost-clawed, frost-cleft, frost-compacted, frost-crack, frost-damaged, frost-flecked, Frost-free, frost-gleamed, frost-gripped, frost-hardened, frost-hardening, frost-hardy, frost-hit, frost-laced, frost-nails, frost-prone, frost-proof, frost-protection, frost-ravaged, frost-resistant, frost-rimed, frost-sensitive, frost-sharp, frost-shattered, frost-shocked, frost-sorting, frost-spiked, frost-stats, frost-tender, frost-tipped, frost-tolerant, frost-webs, frost-work. | |
Ending with "frost": hoar-frost, jack-frost, Lauder-frost, perma-frost, star-frost, sugar-frost. | |
Containing "frost": mild-frost-hardy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
robert frost | 2,067 | adam frost | 68 |
bank frost | 541 | robert frost the road less traveled | 66 |
robert frost poem | 377 | frost miranda | 64 |
sadie frost | 370 | lauren frost | 56 |
lane frost | 369 | the road not taken by robert frost | 54 |
frost | 367 | frost line | 53 |
jack frost | 174 | cameron frost | 46 |
frost cutlery | 150 | birch robert frost | 45 |
kate frost | 146 | frost quote robert | 45 |
robert frost road not taken | 144 | brown frost todd | 44 |
robert frost poetry | 144 | frost knife | 39 |
frost national bank | 143 | robert frost fire ice | 39 |
kid frost | 134 | mending wall robert frost | 38 |
robert frost biography | 127 | lindsay frost | 36 |
celtic frost | 122 | frost bite | 33 |
frost jenny | 121 | frost merck | 31 |
emma frost | 119 | nothing gold can stay robert frost | 30 |
frost sullivan | 111 | design robert frost | 30 |
poem by robert frost | 90 | frost valley | 29 |
picture of robert frost | 69 | aubrey frost | 26 |
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| Language | Translations for "frost"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | acar (bleakness, freezing cold). (various references) | |
Arabic | كسا بالصقيع, قتل بالصقيع, تجمد (freeze, freezing, frostiness, icing, settle down, solidify), صقيع (freeze, frostiness, frosting, jack frost, rime), جمد (block, congeal, freeze, immobilize, make frozen, set, solidify), الصقيع المتجمد (freeze, hoarfrost), إخفاق (baulk, bust, deadlock, failure, fizzle out, lemon, miscarriage, miss, screw, setback, smash, turkey, unsuccess, wall, wrack), درجة التجمد, برودة في. (various references) | |
Basque | erredura (burn, frost nip, scald). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | студенина (bleakness, chill, coldness, dryness, ice, impassivity, wintriness), скреж (hoarfrost, rime), слана (hoarfrost, rime), разочарование (chagrin, disappointment, disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment, letdown, sell, sucks), осланявам (rime), мраз (nip), матирам (flatten, mat, mate), замразявам (freeze, fridge, frig, lock up, refrigerate), покривам с пудра захар, побелявам (blanch, go grey, grow white, turn grey, white, whiten), попарвам (blight, damp, infuse, kill, nip, perish, scald, steam, touch, wither). (various references) | |
Chinese | 霜 . (various references) | |
Czech | spálit mrazem, mráz (freeze), matovat (mate). (various references) | |
Danish | frost (freezing cold). (various references) | |
Dutch | vorst (coping, freezing cold, king, monarch, prince). (various references) | |
Esperanto | frosto (freezing cold), gelo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | frost. (various references) | |
Farsi | ژاله (Dew), گچک , سرمازده کردن , سرمازدن , سرماریزه (Hoarfrost, Rime), ازشبنم یابرف ریزه پوشیده شدن , شبنم منجمد, شبنم (Dew), برفک . (various references) | |
Finnish | pakkanen (cold), kuura (hoarfrost), halla. (various references) | |
French | gel (freeze, freezing, freezing cold), gelée (freezing cold), givre (hoar frost). (various references) | |
Frisian | froast (freezing cold). (various references) | |
German | Frost (cold, fit of shivering, freezing cold). (various references) | |
Greek | παγωνιά (nip), παγετός. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | acar (freezing cold). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קפאון (coagulation, congealment, freeze), קרה (cold). (various references) | |
Hungarian | fagy (chill, cold, freeze, froze, frozen, to freeze). (various references) | |
Indonesian | beku (frozen). (various references) | |
Irish | sioc (freezing cold). (various references) | |
Italian | gelo (chill, cold, freezing, freezing cold, ice), gelata, brina (Hoar, hoarfrost, rime). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 霜 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | フロスト , しも, さむけ (a chill, a cold, cold, shivering fit), かんき (cold, delight, disfavor, disinheritance, dry season, evocation, great joy, rules which officials must follow, ventilation), こうそう (conception, confused fighting, dispute, good running, grand, high and dry ground, high priest, hurrying, idea, imperial ancestors, imposing, magnificent, muzzle loading gun, ore bed, plan, plot, public funeral, red algae, resistance, rhodophyceae, sailing, school funeral, sending back or sending later, spice used for cooking, upper, virtuous priest), とうかん (bitter cold, disregard, mailing, make light of, neglect, negligence, posting, supervision, supervisor, sweating while sleeping). (various references) | |
Manx | riojey (freeze, ice up, icing), rio (freezing, ice), cur treinaghyn rioee er, cur brat shugyr er. (various references) | |
Norwegian | frost, rim. (various references) | |
Occitan | cremadura (burn, frost nip, scald). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ostfray.(various references) | |
Polish | mróz (freezing cold). (various references) | |
Portuguese | geada (freeze, freezing cold, hoar, hoar-frost, rime). (various references) | |
Romanian | ger (freezing cold, frostiness). (various references) | |
Romany | pàhni. (various references) | |
Russian | мороз. (various references) | |
Scottish | reodhadh (freezing, or causing to freeze), reodh , reotha. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mraz (nip). (various references) | |
Spanish | helada (freeze, freezing cold), escarcha (hoarfrost, icing, rhyme, rime). (various references) | |
Swazi | sí-tfwatfwá. (various references) | |
Swedish | frost (freeze, freezing cold), rimfrost (frostwork, hoarfrost, hoar-frost, rime). (various references) | |
Thai | น้ำค้างแข็ง, ปกคลุมด้วยน้ำค้างแข็ง, ความเย็นชา (coldness). (various references) | |
Turkish | ayaz (black frost, blackfrost, dry cold, freezing cold, frosty, jack frost, nip). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gyraw, doсak, зisсi (drizzle), burjy, buldurзyn, aсzak, aяaz. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | холодність (chill, coldness, cool, frigidity, offishness), холод (algidity, bleakness, chill, cold, coldness, freeze), глазурувати (enamel, enrobe, glaze, ice), мороз, підморожувати, провал (defection, fail, failure, fiasco, washout). (various references) | |
Welsh | rhew (ice). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | halba. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | gelu. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | forst, hrim. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 31, Verse 40 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Eginomhn thV hmeraV sugkaiomenoV tw kaumati kai pagetw thV nuktoV kai afistato o upnoV apo twn ofqalmwn mou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Die noctuque aestu urebar et gelu fugiebat somnus ab oculis meis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Day and nyyt with hoot and coolde Y was streynyd, and sleep fleiy fro myn eyen; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Moreouer by daye the hete consumed me and the colde by nyghte and my slepe departed fro myne eyes. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Thus I was; in the day the drouth consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from my eyes. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 31, Verse 40 |
| Cebuano | Sa ingon niana, sa adlaw napagod ako sa kainit, ug sa kagabhion ang katugnaw; ug ang akong katulogon nangawala sa akong mga mata. |
| Croatian | Èesto sam danju skapavao od žeði, a obnoæ od studeni. San je bježao od mojih oèiju. |
| Danish | om Dagen fortærede Heden mig, om Natten Kulden, og mine Øjne kendte ikke til Søvn. |
| Dutch | Ik ben geweest, dat mij bij dag de hitte verteerde, en bij nacht de vorst, en dat mijn slaap van mijn ogen week. |
| Finnish | Päivällä vaivasi minua helle, yöllä vilu, ja uni pakeni silmistäni. |
| French | La chaleur me dévorait pendant le jour, et le froid pendant la nuit, et le sommeil fuyait de mes yeux. |
| German | Des Tages verschmachtete ich vor Hitze und des Nachts vor Frost, und kam kein Schlaf in meine Augen. |
| Hungarian | Úgy voltam hogy nappal a hõség emésztett, éjjel pedig a hideg; és az álom távol maradt szemeimtõl. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Seringkali saya kepanasan pada waktu siang dan kedinginan pada waktu malam. Dan kerap kali saya tidak dapat tidur pula. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Adalah halku pada siang hari dihanguskan oleh panas terik dan pada malam dirusakkan oleh sejuk, sehingga tidurpun hilanglah dari pada mataku. |
| Italian | Di giorno mi divorava il caldo e di notte il gelo e il sonno fuggiva dai miei occhi. |
| Maori | Ko taku hanga tena; i te awatea i pau ahau i te matewai, i te po i te huka; a turere ana te moe i oku kanohi. |
| Norwegian | Slik hadde jeg det: Om dagen fortærtes jeg av hete og av kulde om natten, og søvnen flydde fra mine øine. |
| Portuguese | Assim andava eu; de dia me consumia o calor, e de noite a geada; e o sono me fugia dos olhos. |
| Rumanian | Ziua mq topeam de cqldurq, iar noaptea mq prqpqdeam de frig, wi-mi fugea somnul de pe ochi. |
| Russian | С ФПНЙМУС ДОЕН ПФ ЦБТБ, Б ОПЮША ПФ УФХЦЙ, Й УПО НПК ХВЕЗБМ ПФ ЗМБЪ НПЙИ. |
| Spanish | De día me consumía el calor, y de noche la helada; hasta el sueño huía de mis ojos. |
| Swedish | Sådan var min lott: om dagen förtärdes jag av hetta och om natten av köld, och sömnen flydde mina ögon. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "frost": frostbit, frostbite, frostbites, frostbiting, frostbitings, frostbitten, frosted, frosteds, frostier, frostiest, frostily, frostiness, frostinesses, frosting, frostings, frosts, frostwork, frostworks, frosty. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "frost": defrost, hoarfrost, permafrost. (additional references) | |
Words containing "frost": defrosted, defroster, defrosters, defrosting, defrosts, hoarfrosts, permafrosts. (additional references) | |
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"Frost" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brost, Drost, foest, forpost, forsc, forst, forste, fost, frasch, frict, friest, frist, froat, froit, froost, froot, fros, frose, frot, frotw, froust, frout, frowst, froz, fruct, frus, frust, rrost. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "frost" (pronounced frô"st) |
| 5 | f r ô" s t | defrost. |
| 4 | -r ô" s t | crossed. |
| 3 | -ô" s t | accost, embossed, exhaust, glossed, lost, tossed. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: forts. | |
| Words within the letters "f-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: fort, orts, rots, soft, sort, tors. | |
-2 letters: for, fro, oft, ors, ort, rot, sot, tor. | |
-3 letters: of, or, os, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: crofts, fetors, forest, fortes, fortis, foster, fronts, frosts, frosty, froths, frowst, softer. | |
+2 letters: defrost, efforts, factors, florets, florist, foetors, footers, forests, forgets, forints, formats, forties, fosters, fourths, frontes, frosted, frowsts, frowsty, lofters, profits, sportif, twofers. | |
+3 letters: afforest, affronts, coffrets, comforts, crofters, deforest, defrosts, fagoters, faitours, fanworts, felworts, figworts, firepots, floaters, florists, floruits, flouters, footlers, footrest, footsore, forecast, foreguts, foremast, foremost, forepast, forestal, forestay, forested, forester, forestry, foretops, forfeits, forkiest, formants, formates, forsooth, forspent, fortress, fortunes, fortyish, fostered, fosterer, foxtrots, fretsome, frontals, frontons, frostbit, frosteds, frostier, frostily, frosting, frowsted, fructose, functors, futhorcs, futhorks, isograft, outfires, overfast, oversoft, pieforts, pomfrets, poofters, postfire, postform, refloats, reforest, refronts, rooftops, rotifers, seafront, setiform, sforzato, shofroth, softener, software, sportful, surfboat, telfords, trefoils, troffers, turnoffs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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