English Dictionary

cool

IPA（発音記号）

/kuːl/

動詞

自動詞 直訳 他動詞 比喩的用法

(intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder. / (transitive, literally) To make cooler, less warm. / (intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

日本語の意味

（自動詞）温度が下がる、冷める。 / （他動詞）～を冷やす、冷めさせる。 / （比喩的に自動詞）熱意や情熱、感情などが衰える、もしくは穏やかになる。

After the storm passed, the pavement began to cool.

嵐が過ぎ去ると、路面は冷えてきた。

意味（1）

(intransitive, literally) To lose heat, to get colder.

I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue.

意味（2）

(transitive, literally) To make cooler, less warm.

Send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue.

意味（3）

(intransitive, figuratively) To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980.

意味（4）

(transitive, figuratively) To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

We have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts.

意味（5）

(transitive) To kill.

Maybe he would die. That would mean I had murdered him. I smiled, trying the idea on for size. One of the things that always had cheesed me a little was that I had no kills to my credit. I'd been in plenty of rumbles, but somehow, I'd never cooled anyone. Well maybe now I had my first one. I couldn't feel very proud of skulling an old man, but at least I could say that I'd scored. That was a big kick.

cools （ present singular third-person ）

cooling （ participle present ）

cooled （ participle past ）

cooled （ past ）