Cold vs. Cooler — What's the Difference?

Cold is the presence of low temperature, especially in the atmosphere. In common usage, cold is often a subjective perception.

A cooler, portable ice chest, ice box, cool box, chilly bin (in New Zealand), or esky (Australia) is an insulated box used to keep food or drink cool. Ice cubes are most commonly placed in it to help the contents inside stay cool.

Having a low temperature

A container for keeping food or bottles cool.

Being at a temperature that is less than what is required or what is normal

A long drink, especially a mixture of wine, fruit juice, and soda water.

Chilled by refrigeration or ice

Prison or a prison cell

Feeling no warmth; uncomfortably chilled

A device, container, or room that cools or keeps cool.

Appearing to be dead; unconscious

A cold drink, usually carbonated, fruit-flavored, and containing wine or other alcoholic ingredients. Also called wine cooler.

Dead

(Slang) A jail.

Lacking emotion; objective

Anything which cools.

Having little appeal to the senses or feelings

An insulated bin or box used with ice or freezer packs to keep food or beverages cold while picnicking or camping.

Designating or being in a tone or color, such as pale gray, that suggests little warmth.

A device for refrigerating dead bodies in a morgue.

Not affectionate or friendly; aloof

A type of drink made with alcohol, especially wine, mixed with fruit juice.

Exhibiting or feeling no enthusiasm

Samalamig

Devoid of sexual desire; frigid.

A prison.

Having lost all freshness or vividness through passage of time

A bouncer or doorman.

So intense as to be almost uncontrollable

A cold deck.

Characterized by repeated failure, especially in a sport or competitive activity

That which cools, or abates heat or excitement.

To an unqualified degree; totally

Anything in or by which liquids or other things are cooled, as an ice chest, a vessel for ice water, etc.

With complete finality

An alcoholic beverage containing liquor or wine plus a carbonated beverage, usually served with ice.

Without advance preparation or introduction

Jail; - usually used in the form the cooler.

Relative lack of warmth

An air conditioner.

The sensation resulting from lack of warmth; chill.

A refrigerator for cooling liquids

A condition of low air temperature; cold weather

An iced drink especially white wine and fruit juice

A viral infection characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes lining the upper respiratory passages and usually accompanied by malaise, fever, chills, coughing, and sneezing. Also called common cold, coryza.

A cell for violent prisoners

(of a thing) Having a low temperature.

(of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.

(of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.

Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.

Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.

Completely unprepared; without introduction.

Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.

(usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.

(usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.

(obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.

(obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.

Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.

(obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.

Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.

(painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.

(databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.

(informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.

(informal) Not radioactive.

(firearm) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.

Without electrical power being supplied.

A condition of low temperature.

A harsh place; a place of abandonment.

(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.

(slang) rheum, sleepy dust

At a low temperature.

Without preparation.

In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.

Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.

Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.

Not pungent or acrid.

Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.

Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.

Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.

Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.

Not sensitive; not acute.

Distant; - said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.

Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.

The relative absence of heat or warmth.

The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.

A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.

To become cold.

A mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs);

The absence of heat;

The sensation produced by low temperatures;

Used of physical coldness; having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration;

Extended meanings; especially of psychological coldness; without human warmth or emotion;

Having lost freshness through passage of time;

(color) giving no sensation of warmth;

Marked by errorless familiarity;

No longer new; uninteresting;

So intense as to be almost uncontrollable;

Sexually unresponsive;

Without compunction or human feeling;

Feeling or showing no enthusiasm;

Unconscious from a blow or shock or intoxication;

Of a seeker; far from the object sought

Lacking the warmth of life;