CHILL
- Abbreviation. (computing) an acronym for CCITT High Level Language.
- Noun. A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
- Noun. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: ''fevers and chills'', or susceptibility to illness: ''close the window or you'll catch a chill''.
- Noun. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
- Adjective. Moderately cold or chilly.
- Adjective. (slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing. ''See also'': chill out.
- Adjective. (slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
- Verb. (transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
- Verb. (transitive, metallurgy) To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- Verb. (intransitive) To become cold.
- Verb. (intransitive, metallurgy) To become hard by rapid cooling.
- Verb. (intransitive, slang) To relax, lie back.
- Verb. (intransitive, slang) To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. ''Also'' '''chill out'''.
- Verb. (intransitive, slang) To smoke marijuana.
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