chill
    n 1: coldness due to a cold environment [syn: chill,
         iciness, gelidity]
    2: an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of
       surprise shot through him" [syn: frisson, shiver,
       chill, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle]
    3: a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an
       infection and the development of a fever [syn: chill,
       shivering]
    4: a sudden numbing dread [syn: chill, pall]
    v 1: depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender
         chilled the soldiers"
    2: make cool or cooler; "Chill the food" [syn: cool, chill,
       cool down] [ant: heat, heat up]
    3: loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the
       thunderstorm" [syn: cool, chill, cool down] [ant:
       heat, heat up, hot up]

Chill \Chill\ (ch[i^]l), n. [AS. cele, cyle, from the same root
   as celan, calan, to be cold; akin to D. kil cold, coldness,
   Sw. kyla to chill, and E. cool. See Cold, and cf. Cool.]
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   1. A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable
      sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering. "[A]
      wintry chill." --W. Irving.
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   2. (Med.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the
      body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by
      undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or
      forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance,
      as of a fever.
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   3. A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling;
      discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
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   4. An iron mold or portion of a mold, serving to cool
      rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron
      brought in contact with it. --Raymond.
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   5. The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car
      wheel. --Knight.
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   Chill and fever, fever and ague.
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Chill \Chill\, v. i. (Metal.)
   To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while
   solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater
   depth than others.
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Chill \Chill\, a.
   1. Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
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            Noisome winds, and blasting vapors chill. --Milton.
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   2. Affected by cold. "My veins are chill." --Shak.
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   3. Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.;
      lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill
      reception.
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   4. Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
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Chill \Chill\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chilled (ch[i^]ld); p. pr.
   & vb. n. Chilling.]
   1. To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to
      shiver; to affect with cold.
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            When winter chilled the day.          --Goldsmith.
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   2. To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress;
      to discourage.
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            Every thought on God chills the gayety of his
            spirits.                              --Rogers.
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   3. (Metal.) To produce, by sudden cooling, a change of
      crystallization at or near the surface of, so as to
      increase the hardness; said of cast iron.
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CHILL
       CCITT HIgh Level programming Language (CCITT)
       

CCITT HIgh-Level Language
CHILL

    (CHILL) A real-time language widely used in
   telecommunications.  CHILL was developed in the 1970s and
   improved in 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996.  It is used in several
   countries including Germany, Norway, Brasil, and South Korea.

   Cygnus are developing a compiler based on gcc.

   <http://www1.informatik.uni-jena.de/languages/chill/chill.htm>.

   ["An Analytical Description of CHILL, the CCITT High Level
   Language", P. Branquart, LNCS 128, Springer 1982].

   ["CHILL User's Manual", ITU, 1986, ISBN 92-61-02601-X.
   ISO-9496 (1988?)].

   (1997-01-20)