Shill vs. Chill

Shillnoun

A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.

Shillnoun

An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.

Shillnoun

(gambling) A house player in a casino.

Shillverb

(pejorative) To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly.

Shillverb

To put under cover; to sheal.

Shillverb

To shell.

Shillverb

To shell.

Shillverb

To put under cover; to sheal.

Shillnoun

a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others

Shillverb

act as a shill;

Shillnoun

an accomplice of a confidence trickster or swindler who poses as a genuine customer to entice or encourage others

Shillnoun

a person who pretends to give an impartial endorsement of something in which they themselves have an interest

Shillverb

act or work as a shill

Shill

A shill, also called a plant or a stooge, is a person who publicly helps or gives credibility to a person or organization without disclosing that they have a close relationship with said person or organization. Shills can carry out their operations in the areas of media, journalism, marketing, politics, sports, confidence games, or other business areas.

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