freeze

IPA: frˈiz

A period of intensely cold weather.
A halt of a regular operation.
(computing) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
(curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
(business, finance) A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.
A surname.
Obsolete form of frieze. [A kind of coarse woollen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted (friezed) nap on one side.]

(intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
(transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
(intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
(intransitive, informal) To be affected by extreme cold.
(intransitive) (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
(intransitive) (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
(transitive) To cause someone to become motionless.
(figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
(transitive) To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.
(Internet) To prevent from showing any visible change.

Examples of "freeze" in Sentences

The settlement freeze is a real sticking point here.
But a straight spending freeze is a blunt instrument that has no place in responsible budgeting.
The beginning, where all the children of Britain freeze, is nicely spooky, but then we cut to Gwen (Eve Myles) getting back to work.
Continuing the settlement "freeze" is a small but important first step in demonstrating to Palestinians the sincerity of the U.S. and Israel in achieving a peace agreement.
Naturally the credit industry, our close friends who care only that we are properly served a healthy portion of credit, think that such a freeze is a problem and consumers will not be happy.
"Netanyahu needs to show that extending the freeze is a very, very difficult thing to do and it's going to cost him a lot, and if its going to cost him he will need some compensation," said a senior Israeli official.
You enter this palace by four great portals, beautiful with sculptured figgers and ornaments, and as you go on in the colonnade you see beautiful paintin's illustratin 'the rise and progress of Art. And way up on the outside, on what they call the freeze of the buildin'