Difference between Freezing and Freeze

What is the difference between Freezing and Freeze?

Freezing as a noun is the change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature. while Freeze as a noun is a period of intensely cold weather.

Freezing

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Suffering or causing frost Very cold

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature. The action of numbing with anesthetics.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

Example sentence: I mean, I have done scenes with animals, with owls, with bats, with cats, with special effects, with thespians, in the freezing cold, in the pouring rain, boiling hot; I've done press with every syndication, every country; I've done interviews with people dressed up as cows - there's honestly nothing that's gonna intimidate me!

Freeze

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A period of intensely cold weather.A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.A halt of a regular operation.A block on pay rises.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.To be very cold.To become motionless.To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets

Example sentence: Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.

We hope you now know whether to use Freezing or Freeze in your sentence.

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