frost🔊

A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air.

The cold weather that causes these ice crystals to form.

(figurative) Coldness or insensibility; severity or rigidity of character.

(obsolete) The act of freezing; the congelation of water or other liquid.

A shade of white, like that of frost.

(slang, dated) A disappointment; a cheat.

(television) A kind of light diffuser.

To cover with frost.

To become covered with frost.

To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost.

(informal) To anger or annoy.

To sharpen (the points of a horse's shoe) to prevent it from slipping on ice.

To bleach individual strands of hair while leaving adjacent strands untouched.