Difference between Cool and Chill

What is the difference between Cool and Chill?

Cool as a verb is to lose heat, to get colder. while Chill as a verb is to lower the temperature of something; to cool.

Cool

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To lose heat, to get colder. To make cooler, less warm To 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 relief Of a person, not showing emotion, calm and in self-control. Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical. calmly audacious Of 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 need to hang out in a posse and try to act cool.

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: I like to be quiet and play guitar and just chill.

We hope you now know whether to use Cool or Chill in your sentence.

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