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frost

(frôst, frŏst)

a. A deposit of minute ice crystals formed when water vapor condenses at a temperature below freezing.

b. A period of weather when such deposits form.

2. A cold manner or period of disaffection: a frost in diplomatic relations.

v. frost·ed, frost·ing, frosts

v.tr.

1. To cover with frost.

2. To damage or kill by frost.

3. To cover (glass, for example) with a roughened or speckled decorative surface.

4. To cover or decorate with icing: frost a cake.

5. To bleach or lighten the color of (hair) with dye so that some but not all strands are changed in color.

6. Slang To anger or upset: What really frosted me about the incident was the fact that you lied.

v.intr.

To become covered with frost: The windshield frosted up overnight.

[Middle English, from Old English; see preus- in Indo-European roots.]

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frosted

(ˈfrɒstɪd)

adj

1. covered or injured by frost

2. (Cookery) covered with icing, as a cake

3. (Ceramics) (of glass, etc) having a surface roughened, as if covered with frost, to prevent clear vision through it

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Adj.

frosted - (of glass) having a roughened coating resembling frost; "frosted glass"

opaque - not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight; "opaque windows of the jail"; "opaque to X-rays"

Translations

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glassato smerigliato vetro smerigliato gelato

frosted

[ˈfrɒstɪd]

A. ADJ (esp US) [cake] → escarchado

B. CPD frosted glass N → vidrio m or cristal m esmerilado

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

frosted

[ˈfrɒstɪd] adj (mainly US) [cake] → glacé(e)frosted glass n (for window) → verre m dépoli

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frosted

adj

(= frost-covered) grass, trees, roofs → von Raureif bedeckt; windows, windscreen → vereist

(fig) eye shadow, nail varnish, lipstick → metallisch

(esp US: = iced) → mit Zuckerguss überzogen, glasiert; (= sugared) fruit → mit Zucker bestreut

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frosted

[ˈfrɒstɪd] adj (glass) → smerigliato/a (esp Am) (cake) → glassato/a

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Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet, and see what sort of a place this Spouter may be.

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If people cannot be assured of graves, I fear they will no longer die, and the best interests of civilisation will wither like a frosted leaf."

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Their eyelashes were frosted white, as were their muzzles, and they had all the seeming of decrepit old age, what of the frost-rime and exhaustion.

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One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground picking the gnarled, twisted apples and filling his pockets with them.

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A few of the buns, which seemed to form the more important class of the people, were neatly frosted. Some had raisins for eyes and currant buttons on their clothes; others had eyes of cloves and legs of stick cinnamon, and many wore hats and bonnets frosted pink and green.

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It was a hoar-frost day, and the forest was an enchanted forest leading into fairyland, and though Irais and I have been there often before, and always thought it beautiful, yet yesterday we stood under the final arch of frosted trees, struck silent by the sheer loveliness of the place.