FROST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Frost mean? 

• FROST (noun)
  The noun FROST has 4 senses:

1. ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

2. weather cold enough to cause freezing

3. the formation of frost or ice on a surface

4. United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)

  Familiarity information: FROST used as a noun is uncommon.

• FROST (verb)
  The verb FROST has 4 senses:

1. decorate with frosting

2. provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance

3. cover with frost

4. damage by frost

  Familiarity information: FROST used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FROST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

frost; hoar; hoarfrost; rime

Hypernyms ("frost" is a kind of...):

ice; water ice (water frozen in the solid state)

Derivation:

frost (cover with frost)

frosty (covered with frost)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Weather cold enough to cause freezing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

freeze; frost

Hypernyms ("frost" is a kind of...):

cold weather (a period of unusually cold weather)

Derivation:

frost (damage by frost)

frosty (pleasantly cold and invigorating)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The formation of frost or ice on a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

frost; icing

Hypernyms ("frost" is a kind of...):

freeze; freezing (the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid)

Derivation:

frost (cover with frost)

frosty (covered with frost)

Sense 4

Meaning:

United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Frost; Robert Frost; Robert Lee Frost

Instance hypernyms:

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Derivation:

Frostian (of or relating to or in the manner of Robert Frost)

• FROST (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they frost    ... he / she / it frosts   
Past simple: frosted   
Past participle: frosted   
-ing form: frosting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Decorate with frosting

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

frost; ice

Context example:

frost a cake

Hypernyms (to "frost" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Domain category:

cookery; cooking; preparation (the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

frosting (a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide with a rough or speckled surface or appearance

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

she frosts her hair

Hypernyms (to "frost" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cover with frost

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

ice crystals frosted the glass

Hypernyms (to "frost" is one way to...):

cover (provide with a covering or cause to be covered)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

frost (the formation of frost or ice on a surface)

frost (ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Damage by frost

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The icy precipitation frosted the flowers and they turned brown

Hypernyms (to "frost" is one way to...):

damage (inflict damage upon)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

frost (weather cold enough to cause freezing)

 Context examples 

Its wild water defied the frost, and it was in the eddies only and in the quiet places that the ice held at all.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Mrs. Henry Spiker was this lady's name; and her husband was there too: so cold a man, that his head, instead of being grey, seemed to be sprinkled with hoar-frost.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The feel of spring was in the air, the feel of growing life under the snow, of sap ascending in the trees, of buds bursting the shackles of the frost.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Leaving the pails standing in the trail, he walked up and down, rapidly, to keep from freezing, for the frost bit into the flesh like fire.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Another may be slides due to the accumulating weight of seasonal frost buildup on steep slopes.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

But again the frost came and made the paths of the sea secure.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; and it was plain from the first that my poor father was little likely to see the spring.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I tried here and tried there, but there were lots of other chaps on the same lay as myself, and it was a perfect frost for a long time.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I opened the glass-door in the breakfast-room: the shrubbery was quite still: the black frost reigned, unbroken by sun or breeze, through the grounds.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It had been a frosty morning, to be sure, a sharp frost, which hardly one woman in a thousand could stand the test of.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)