freeze

freeze v.

To lock an evolving software distribution or document against changes so it can be released with some hope of stability. Carries the strong implication that the item in question will `unfreeze' at some future date. "OK, fix that bug and we'll freeze for release."

There are more specific constructions on this term. A `feature freeze', for example, locks out modifications intended to introduce new features but still allows bugfixes and completion of existing features; a `code freeze' connotes no more changes at all. At Sun Microsystems and elsewhere, one may also hear references to `code slush' -- that is, an almost-but-not-quite frozen state.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

In curling, a shot in which you want your stone to come to a stop in direct contact with an opponent's stone within the rings.

The purpose of such a shot is to provide backing for your stone. If your opponents try to take out your stone, the kinetic force will be transmitted through to their stone, which will then be the one making an ignominious departure from the rings.

Making a freeze requires a shooter to have good weight, and as always good sweeping.

And they did. The sonic levels are nearly excruciating. Each song is like a steamroller, and without any resting period between tracks, it plays like one giant pissed-off jam session.

That's not to say that Freeze dips below Pierrot's usual standards. Aiji and Jun's guitars retain their creative dominance over Kirito's (often distorted) vocals; songs twist themselves around completely different sounds within the same verse; bizarre guitar noises that are almost electronic come regularly between drum beats. Only Pierrot could begin with a sinister guitar riff before breaking into a chorus worthy of Broadway.

They have made better use of Kohta on this album, pushing his bass forward on more than a few tracks, and Takeo is always on rhythm. But the stars are still the guitars. A song that best demonstrates this is PIECES. The verses are like cigarette breaks. 'All right, that's all well and good, now get back to work.'

Freeze is a very good album, but incredibly exhausting.

Freeze (?), n. (Arch.)

A frieze. [Obs.]

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Freeze, v. i. [imp. Froze (?); p. p. Frozen (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Freezing.] [OE. fresen, freosen, AS. freósan; akin to D. vriezen, OHG. iosan, G. frieren, Icel. frjsa, Sw. frysa, Dan. fryse, Goth. frius cold, frost, and prob. to L. prurire to itch, E. prurient, cf. L. prna a burning coal, pruina hoarfrost, Skr. prushvA ice, prush to spirt. &?; 18. Cf. Frost.]

1.

To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

⇒ Water freezes at 32° above zero by Fahrenheit's thermometer; mercury freezes at 40° below zero.

2.

To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.

To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.]

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Freeze, v. t.

1.

To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

2.

To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

A faint, cold fear runs through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
Shak.

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Freeze, n.

The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed. [Colloq.]

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Freeze, v. t. --
To freeze out, to drive out or exclude by cold or by cold treatment; to force to withdraw; as, to be frozen out of one's room in winter; to freeze out a competitor. [Colloq.]

A railroad which had a London connection must not be allowed to freeze out one that had no such connection.
A. T. Hadley.

It is sometimes a long time before a player who is frozen out can get into a game again.
R. F. Foster.

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