• Dutch: onvoorbereid
• Esperanto: malafabla
• Finnish: kylmiltään i predicative
• French: froid
• German: jemanden kalt erwischen
• Polish: nieprzygotowany
• Russian: неприготовленный
• Serbian: nespreman , nepripremljen

• Bosnian: zima, hladnoća
• Chinese: 寒冷 (hán lěng)
• Czech: zima, chlad
• Dutch: koude, kou
• Finnish: kylmyys, pakkanen, kylmä
• French: froid
• German: Kälte
• Italian: freddo, gelo
• Kurdish:
• Lithuanian: vėsa
• Polish: zimno
• Portuguese: frio
• Russian: холод
• Scottish Gaelic: fuachd
• Serbian:

  Cyrillic: зима , хладноћа

  Roman: zima , hladnoća

• Slovene: mraz, hlad
• Spanish: frío
• Swedish: kyla, köld
• Tagalog: kalamigán
• Telugu: శీతలం
• Welsh: oerfel

• Chinese: 感冒 (gǎnmào)
• Czech: nachlazení
• Dutch: verkoudheid
• Finnish: nuha, vilustuminen
• French: rhume
• German: Erkältung, qualifier Austrian Verkühlung
• Icelandic: kvef
• Irish: slaghdán
• Italian: raffreddore, influenza
• Japanese: 風邪 (かぜ, kaze), 感冒 (かんぼう, kanbō)
• Polish: przeziębienie
• Portuguese: constipação, resfriado
• Romanian: gripă, răceală
• Russian: простуда
• Scottish Gaelic: cnatan
• Serbian: prehlada
• Slovene: prehlad
• Spanish: constipado, gripe, gripa
• Swedish: förkylning
• Tagalog: sipón
• Telugu: జలుబు
• Welsh: annwyd

Adverb

1. While at low temperature.

   The steel was processed cold.

2. Without preparation.

   The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.

3. With finality.

   I knocked him out cold.''

Anagrams

• clod

See also

• cool
• fresh
• lukewarm
• tepid

Cold describes the condition of low temperature. Cold may also refer to:

• Common cold, a type of upper respiratory infection
• Computer Output to Laser Disc (COLD), a method of data storage and retrieval
• Coldness, an absence of emotion, especially affection or sympathy
• COLD (novel), a James Bond novel by John Gardner; alternatively titled Cold Fall in the United States
• A Cantonese food classification

In music

• Cold (band), a post-grunge/alternative band
• "Cold" (Crossfade song), a 2004 single by Crossfade
• "Cold" (Italian promo), a song by German pop band Fools Garden.
• "Cold," a 2004 single by Siobhan Fahey
• "Cold," a 1992 single by Annie Lennox
• "Cold" (Static-X song), a 2002 song by Static-X
• "Cold" (Tears for Fears song), a 1993 single by Tears for Fears from their album Elemental
• "Cold," a 2003 song by Matchbox Twenty from their album More Than You Think You Are.
• Cold (But I'm Still Here), a 2005 single by Evans Blue

See also

• Cold River
• Climate
• Heat conduction
• Nesh, an unusual susceptibility to cold weather
• Weather
• Cold War

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