Cool (programming language)
WordNet
adjective
(1) Marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional
"Play it cool"
"Keep cool"
"Stayed coolheaded in the crisis"
"The most nerveless winner in the history of the tournament"
(2) Fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept
"He's a cool dude"
"That's cool"
"Mary's dress is really cool"
"It's not cool to arrive at a party too early"
(3) (used of a number or sum) without exaggeration or qualification
"A cool million bucks"
(4) Neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat
"A cool autumn day"
"A cool room"
"Cool summer dresses"
"Cool drinks"
"A cool breeze"
(5) Psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike
"Relations were cool and polite"
"A cool reception"
"Cool to the idea of higher taxes"
(6) (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets
"Cool greens and blues and violets"
noun
(7) Great coolness and composure under strain
"Keep your cool"
(8) The quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature
"The cool of early morning"
verb
(9) Loose heat
"The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"
(10) Lose intensity
"His enthusiasm cooled considerably"
(11) Make cool or cooler
"Chill the food"
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Etymology
From cōl, cōlian, from Proto-Germanic *koluz, from Proto-Indo-European base *gel- "cold, to freeze." The verb form kele (from Old English colian) was used by Shakespeare, but has been assimilated with the adjective into the modern word. Applied since 1728 to large sums of money to give emphasis to amount.
Adjective
- Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
- Allowing or suggesting heat relief
- Of a person, not showing emotion, calm and in self-control.
- Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
- His proposals had a cool reception.
- calmly audacious
- In control as always, he came up with a cool plan
- Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
- In fashion, part of or fitting the in-crowd-- originally hipster slag.
- Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
- Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.
- I'm completely cool about my girlfriend leaving me.
Synonyms
chilly distant, phlegmatic, standoffish, unemotionalAntonyms
lukewarm, tepid, warm passionate awkward, uncool démodé, old hat, out, out of fashion not cricket , not on, unacceptable bothered, upset warmQuotations
The earliest use of the word in this way seems to be in Wilkie Collins' "The Moonstone" 1868:-
- "She has been a guest of yours at this house," I answered. "May I venture to suggest — if nothing was said about me beforehand — that I might see her here?"
- "Cool!" said Mr. Bruff. With that one word of comment on the reply that I had made to him, he took another turn up and down the room.
- "In plain English," he said, "my house is to be turned into a trap to catch Rachel ...
- In 1602, Shakespeare wrote that Queen Gertrude told Hamlet:
- "O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, Sprinkle cool patience."
Verb
- To lose heat, to get colder.
- I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn by tongue.
- To make cooler, less warm
- To become less intense, e.g. less amicable.
- Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.
- To make less intense, e.g. less amicable.
Adjective
cool
- cool (only its informal senses, mainly fashionable)
- Les jeunes sont cool.
- Young people are cool.
- Les jeunes boivent de l'alcool pour être cool.
- Young people drink alcohol to be cool.
- Les jeunes sont cool.