Chill
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Moderately cold or chilly. Calm, relaxed, easygoing. See also: chill out. "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness. A sudden penetrating sense of cold, especially one that causes a brief trembling nerve response through the body; the trembling response itself; often associated with illness: fevers and chills, or susceptibility to illness: close the window or you'll catch a chill. An uncomfortable and numbing sense of fear, dread, anxiety, or alarm, often one that is sudden and usually accompanied by a trembling nerve response resembling the body's response to biting cold.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To lower the temperature of something; to cool. To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling. To become cold. To become hard by rapid cooling. To relax, lay back. Also chill out. To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out. To smoke marijuana.
Example sentence: A holiday is an opportunity to journey within. It is also a chance to chill, to relax. It is when I switch on my rest mode.
Cool
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To lose heat, to get colder.To make cooler, less warmTo become less intense, e.g. less amicable.To make less intense, e.g. less amicable.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.Allowing or suggesting heat reliefOf a person, not showing emotion, calm and in self-control.Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.calmly audaciousOf a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.In fashion, part of or fitting the in-crowd-- originally hipster slag.Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.
Example sentence: I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.