Relax vs. Chill
Relaxverb
(transitive) To calm down.
Relaxverb
(transitive) To make something loose.
Relaxverb
(intransitive) To become loose.
Relaxverb
(transitive) To make something less severe or tense.
Relaxverb
(intransitive) To become less severe or tense.
Relaxverb
(transitive) To make something (such as codes and regulations) more lenient.
Relaxverb
To become more lenient.
Relaxverb
(transitive) To relieve (something) from stress.
Relaxverb
To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open.
Relaxverb
To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews.
Relaxverb
To make less severe or rigorous; to abate the stringency of; to remit in respect to strenuousness, earnestness, or effort; as, to relax discipline; to relax one's attention or endeavors.
Relaxverb
Hence, to relieve from attention or effort; to ease; to recreate; to divert; as, amusement relaxes the mind.
Relaxverb
To relieve from constipation; to loosen; to open; as, an aperient relaxes the bowels.
Relaxverb
To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax.
Relaxverb
To abate in severity; to become less rigorous.
Relaxverb
To remit attention or effort; to become less diligent; to unbend; as, to relax in study.
Relaxnoun
Relaxation.
Relaxadjective
Relaxed; lax; hence, remiss; careless.
Relaxverb
become less tense, rest, or take one's ease;
Relaxverb
make less tight;
Relaxverb
become loose or looser or less tight;
Relaxverb
cause to feel relaxed;
Relaxverb
become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner;
Relaxverb
make less severe or strict;
Relaxverb
become less severe or strict;
Relaxverb
make less active or fast;
Chillnoun
A moderate, but uncomfortable and penetrating coldness.
Chillnoun
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.
Chillnoun
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.
Chillnoun
An iron mould or portion of a mould, serving to cool rapidly, and so to harden, the surface of molten iron brought in contact with it.
Chillnoun
The hardened part of a casting, such as the tread of a carriage wheel.
Chillnoun
A lack of warmth and cordiality; unfriendliness.
Chillnoun
Calmness; equanimity.
Chillnoun
A sense of style; trendiness; savoir faire.
Chilladjective
Moderately cold or chilly.
Chilladjective
Unwelcoming; not cordial.
Chilladjective
(slang) Calm, relaxed, easygoing.
Chilladjective
(slang) "Cool"; meeting a certain hip standard or garnering the approval of a certain peer group.
Chilladjective
(slang) Okay, not a problem.
Chillverb
(transitive) To lower the temperature of something; to cool.
Chillverb
(intransitive) To become cold.
Chillverb
To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
Chillverb
To become hard by rapid cooling.
Chillverb
To relax, lie back.
Chillverb
To "hang", hang out; to spend time with another person or group. Also chill out.
Chillverb
To smoke marijuana.
Chillverb
(transitive) To discourage or depress.
Chillnoun
A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
Chillnoun
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.
Chillnoun
A check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling; discouragement; as, a chill comes over an assembly.
Chillnoun
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.
Chillnoun
The hardened part of a casting, as the tread of a car wheel.
Chilladjective
Moderately cold; tending to cause shivering; chilly; raw.
Chilladjective
Affected by cold.
Chilladjective
Characterized by coolness of manner, feeling, etc.; lacking enthusiasm or warmth; formal; distant; as, a chill reception.
Chilladjective
Discouraging; depressing; dispiriting.
Chillverb
To strike with a chill; to make chilly; to cause to shiver; to affect with cold.
Chillverb
To check enthusiasm or warmth of feeling of; to depress; to discourage.
Chillverb
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.
Chillverb
To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
Chillnoun
coldness due to a cold environment
Chillnoun
an almost pleasurable sensation of fright;
Chillnoun
a sensation of cold that often marks the start of an infection and the development of a fever
Chillnoun
a sudden numbing dread
Chillverb
depress or discourage;
Chillverb
make cool or cooler;
Chillverb
loose heat;
Chilladjective
uncomfortably cool;
Chillnoun
an unpleasant feeling of coldness in the atmosphere, one's surroundings, or the body
Chillnoun
a feverish cold
Chillnoun
a coldness of manner
Chillnoun
a depressing influence
Chillnoun
a sudden and powerful feeling of fear
Chillnoun
a metal mould, often cooled, designed to ensure rapid or even cooling of metal during casting.
Chillverb
make (someone) cold
Chillverb
cool (food or drink), typically in a refrigerator
Chillverb
(of food or drink) be cooled
Chillverb
another term for chill-cast
Chillverb
horrify or frighten (someone)
Chillverb
calm down and relax
Chillverb
pass time idly with other people
Chilladjective
chilly
Chilladjective
very relaxed or easy-going
