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cool
adjective
cool·er, cool·est
Neither warm nor very cold; moderately cold: fresh, cool water; a cool autumn evening.
Giving or suggesting relief from heat: a cool breeze; a cool blouse.
Marked by calm self-control: a cool negotiator.
Marked by indifference, disdain, or dislike; unfriendly or unresponsive: a cool greeting; was cool to the idea of higher taxes.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of colors, such as blue and green, that produce the impression of coolness.
Slang
a. Knowledgeable or aware of the latest trends or developments: spent all his time trying to be cool.
b. Excellent; first-rate: has a cool sports car; had a cool time at the party.
c. Acceptable; satisfactory: It's cool if you don't want to talk about it.
Slang Entire; full: worth a cool million.
adverb
Informal In a casual manner; nonchalantly: play it cool.
verb
cooled, cool·ing, cools
verb
transitive
To make less warm.
To make less ardent, intense, or zealous: problems that soon cooled my enthusiasm for the project.
Physics To reduce the molecular or kinetic energy of (an object).
verb
intransitive
To become less warm: took a dip to cool off.
To become calmer: needed time for tempers to cool.
noun
A cool place, part, or time: the cool of early morning.
The state or quality of being cool.
Composure; poise: “Our release marked a victory. The nation had kept its cool” ( Moorhead Kennedy )
Origin of cool
Middle English colefrom Old English cōl ; see gel- in Indo-European roots.
Related Forms:
cool′ish
adjective
cool′ly
adverb
cool′ness
noun
Our Living Language The usage of cool as a general positive epithet or interjection has been part and parcel of English slang since World War II, and has even been borrowed into other languages, such as French and German. Originally this sense is a development from its use in African American Vernacular English to mean “excellent, superlative,” first recorded in written English in the early 1930s. Jazz musicians who used the term are responsible for its popularization during the 1940s. As a slang word expressing generally positive sentiment, it has stayed current (and cool) far longer than most such words. One of the main characteristics of slang is the continual renewal of its vocabulary and storehouse of expressions: in order for slang to stay slangy, it has to have a feeling of novelty. Slang expressions meaning the same thing as cool, like bully, capital, hot, groovy, hep, crazy, nervous, far-out, rad, tubular, def, and phat have for the most part not had the staying power or continued universal appeal of cool.
These adjectives indicate absence of excitement or discomposure in a person, especially in times of stress. Cool usually implies merely a high degree of self-control, but it may also indicate aloofness: “Keep strong, if possible. In any case, keep cool. Have unlimited patience” (B.H. Liddell Hart). “An honest hater is often a better fellow than a cool friend” (John Stuart Blackie). Composed implies serenity arising from self-discipline: The dancer was composed as she prepared for her recital.Collected suggests self-possession: The witness remained collected throughout the questioning.Unruffled emphasizes calm despite circumstances that might elicit agitation: “with contented mind and unruffled spirit” (Anthony Trollope). Nonchalant describes a casual manner that may suggest, sometimes misleadingly, a lack of interest or concern: He reacted to the news in a nonchalant manner.Imperturbable stresses unshakable calmness usually considered as an inherent trait: “A man … /Cool, and quite English, imperturbable” (Byron). Detached implies aloofness resulting either from lack of active concern or from resistance to emotional involvement: He sat through the service with a detached air.
From Middle English, from Old English cōl (“cool, cold, tranquil, calm”), from Proto-Germanic*kōlaz, *kōlijaz (“cool”), from Proto-Indo-European*gelǝ- (“cold”). Cognate with Dutchkoel (“cool”), Germankühl (“cool”). Related to cold.
Verb
(third-person singular simple present cools, present participle cooling, simple past and past participle cooled)
(literally intransitive) To lose heat, to get colder.
I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.
From Middle English colen, from Old English cōlian (“to cool, grow cold, be cold”), from Proto-Germanic*kōlēną (“to become cold”), from Proto-Indo-European*gel- (“to freeze”). Cognate with Dutchkoelen (“to cool”), Germankühlen (“to cool”), Swedish, häftig (“cool”)kyla (“to cool, refrigerate”). Also partially from Middle English kelen, from Old English cēlan (“to cool, be cold, become cold”), from Proto-Germanic*kōlijaną (“to cool”), altered to resemble the adjective cool. See keel.
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"cool." YourDictionary, n.d. Web. 14 February 2019. <https://www.yourdictionary.com/Cool>.
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cool - Computer Definition
A family of tools from Sterling Software for modeling and developing enterprise applications for every major hardware platform. Later owned and marketed by Computer Associates (CA), which purchased Sterling Software in 2000, the product line continues to provide business and data modeling for the enterprise. Look for the COOL products under the CA name of "Advantage Developer Series."
