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  2. Common cold - Wikipedia

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    The common cold or the cold is a viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract that primarily affects the respiratory mucosa of the nose, throat, sinuses, and larynx. [6] [8] Signs and symptoms may appear in as little as two days after exposure to the virus. [6] These may include coughing, sore throat, runny nose, sneezing, headache ...

  3. Cold - Wikipedia

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    An iceberg, which is commonly associated with cold Signal "cold" – unofficial (except recommended by CMAS), it is nonetheless used by many schools of diving and propagated through diving websites as one of the more useful additional signals [1] Goose bumps, a common physiological response to cold, aiming to reduce the loss of body heat in a cold environment A photograph of the snow surface ...

  4. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .

  5. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    cold – from "cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey". According to a popular folk etymology , this phrase derives from cannonballs stowed on a brass triangle named after a "powder monkey" (a boy who runs gunpowder to the ship's guns) spilling owing to the frame's contraction in cold weather.

  6. Cold (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    "Cold", by Siobhan Fahey from the album Songs from the Red Room "Cold", by Stabbing Westward from the EP Dead and Gone; Film. Cold, a 2013 Irish film by and with ...

  7. List of cold soups - Wikipedia

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    Cold noodle soup in cold meat broth Naengguk: Korea Refers to all kinds of cold guk (soups) in Korean cuisine, mainly eaten in summer. It is so called changuk, which literally means "cold soup" in pure Korean, while the term naengguk is a combination of a hanja word and a pure Korean word with the same meaning. Okroshka: Russia

  8. Cold-blooded - Wikipedia

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    Cold-blooded is an informal term for one or more of a group of characteristics that determine an animal's thermophysiology. These include: Ectothermy, controlling body temperature through external processes, such as by basking in the sun; Poikilothermy, the ability of an organism to function over a wide internal temperature range

  9. Nesh - Wikipedia

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    Nesh is an English dialect adjective meaning 'unusually susceptible to cold weather' and there is no synonym for this use. [1] The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word as: "Soft in texture or consistency; yielding easily to pressure or force. In later use chiefly: tender, succulent, juicy."