frost

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frost1 /frɒst $ frɒːst/ noun

1 [countableC, uncountableU]DNCOLD very cold weather, when water freezes 严寒天气，霜冻

late/early/first frost

Even in May we can sometimes get a late frost.

即使在5月份，我们有时还会遇到晚春的严寒天气。

hard/heavy/sharp/severe frost (=extremely cold weather) 酷寒

three continuous nights of hard frost

一连三晚的酷寒

the risk of frost damage to crops

庄稼遭受霜冻灾害的危险

2 [uncountableU]DN ice that looks white and powdery and covers things that are outside when the temperature is very cold 霜

The grass and trees were white with frost.

草上和树上结了一层白霜。

n COLLOCATIONS – Meanings 1 & 2

adjectives

a severe frost (=when the temperature falls several degrees below freezing point)

Many plants were damaged by the severe frost.

a hard/heavy frost (=a severe frost)

We’ve had three continuous nights of hard frost.

a sharp frost (=a sudden severe frost)

There had been a sharp frost overnight.

ground frost (=frost that forms only on the ground)

Scotland should have a dry night, with a touch of ground frost in northern glens.

an early frost (=one that happens before winter)

I hoped the early frost wasn’t a sign of a bad winter to come.

a late frost (=one that happens in late spring)

There’s always the danger of a late frost killing the buds.

verbs

the frost melts

The frost was gradually melting.

be covered in frost

The lawn was covered in frost.

protect something against frost

The plants need to be protected against frost.

frost + NOUN

frost damage (=damage to plants, caused by frost)

Some crop regions may have suffered frost damage.

Examples from the Corpus

frost• Frost covered all the windows.• A frost warning was issued for most of South Carolina.• During the first few weeks, check that they haven't been lifted by frost or pecked out by birds.• The Ohio valley is expecting the first frost of the season by Monday morning.• At a great distance, the ghostly frost of a snow peak seemed suspended from the clear sky.• Kevin Lindsay, a farmer in the northwest Iowa town of Correctionville, had frost on the inside of his windows.• Or late frosts, and drizzle throughout August?• Here and there the frost had drawn trees and other patterns on the windowpanes.• There was frost on the windows and a chill in the air.• After that it was all weather: frosts and rains and spring and summer, and the long days growing longer.• Already the grass was becoming crisp with frost.

late/early/first frost• It would never survive, of course; the slightest hint of a late frost and it would wither and drop.• But late frosts may have hit the barleys, he believes.• To see that the sowing is begun sufficiently early to avoid risks of early frosts. 17.• Or late frosts, and drizzle throughout August?• The next morning they lay burned and blasted, blackened by the first frost, their seeds promising their resurrection.• When the first frosts came he moved back down to the village.• The early frost today was a worry.• Experts are blaming cool, wet weather throughout June, perhaps coupled with late frosts.

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