Chill - what is it? Value, synonyms, example

Already so do not say, no one calls a strong frost or cold cold. And in vain, a good word after all. Only forgotten. Today we will take a close look at it. Our theme is cold. What is that?

Value

So they say, when it comes to severe frost or cold. The dictionaries say that this is a colloquial version. It seems that at the moment it can be said with certainty that the word "cold" is slightly outdated, came out of active use, and it is almost never remembered.

When the phrase "winter cold" is heard, it blows from him books by NV Gogol and the 19th century. In extreme cases, Soviet literature comes to mind, but when the current writers use this definition of cold, it seems, perhaps only "under the old days." In other words, in modern language the word feels like a stranger among its own.

Synonyms

Substituting words are reduced to a short list:

• frost;
• cold.

Naturally, cold is not just frost or cold, it's their superlative degree. That is, you can not consider the temperature to be -5 degrees Celsius, it's ridiculous. About cold say when the wind whistles in the wires, the blizzard played out in the street, and the thermometer's column shows -25. True, it is possible without a blizzard, but it must necessarily be very cold, otherwise it's not cold.

Frost is a full-fledged hero of Russian folk tales

Stool - this is not only a natural phenomenon, but also acting person of favorite folk stories. No interviews were conducted, of course, but it seems that Alexandra Rowe is known to everyone, and the tale "Morozko" was watched even in America, but after watching the reaction they had a completely different than the Russian viewer.

Western people, for example, did not understand why Marfushka ended up with a nose and why she is a negative character, because she has such right values: wealth, success (to get married), and the heroine, who, on the contrary, is submissive and generally neither fish No meat, - it is our favorite. Okay, we got distracted.

Still, the Americans did not realize that the cold in the fairy tale is humane and bear the name Morozko (one of the main characters). He helps those who are good to him, but the arrogance of Marfushka does not suit him. At the end of the film Marfushka arrives at the pigs home, and in the tale Morozko chills her to death.

I do not want to think that the "cold" is the word that left us forever. After all, the nouns "frost" and "cold" do not always convey the shade that is necessary. Yes, a person can say: "It's cold outside." But the interlocutor will have to ask how cold? If it sounds: "Wow, cold!" - this does not require clarification. Take the word for weapons, maybe someday it will come in handy.