cooler
kooh ler
- n a refrigerator for cooling liquids
- n an iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice
- n a cell for violent prisoners
- a neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat
- s marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional
- a (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets
- a psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike
- s (used of a number or sum) without exaggeration or qualification
- s fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept
- Along with this now familiar general warning, the FBI has introduced the specter of a new terrorism threat: booby-trapped beer coolers.
- That rules out the possibility of life on these "hot Jupiters," but scientists surmise that other Earth-sized planets may be making cooler, longer orbits around those same suns.
- La Nia may have made average temperatures in 2008 cooler than the years immediately prior, but the warming trend continues.