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frost
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n.
a deposit of small white ice crystals formed on the ground or other surfaces when the temperature falls below freezing.
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a period of cold weather when such deposits form:
when the hard frosts had set in.
∎ fig.
a chilling or dispiriting quality, esp. one conveyed by a cold manner:
there was a light frost of anger in Jack's tone.
∎ [in sing.] inf. , chiefly Brit.
a failure.
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v. [tr.]
cover (something) with or as if with small ice crystals; freeze:
each windowpane was frosted along its edges.
∎ [intr.]
become covered with small ice crystals:
a mustache that frosts up when he's ice-climbing.
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decorate (a cake, cupcake, or other baked item) with icing.
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tint hair strands to change the color of isolated strands.
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injure (a plant) by freezing weather.
∎ inf.
anger or annoy:
such discrimination frosted her no end.
DERIVATIVES:
frost·less
adj.
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Frost Investment Advisors Funds Receive Morningstar Ratings(TM).
News Wire article from: PR Newswire; 5/26/2009; 700+ words
; Six funds Rated 5-Stars -- Frost Dividend Value Equity Fund (FIDVX)* 5-Star Overall Morningstar Rating -- Frost Core Growth Equity Fund (FICEX)* 5-Star Overall Morningstar Rating -- Frost Municipal Bond Fund (FIMUX)* 5-Star Overall...
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Frost Insurance Acquires Prime Benefits in Austin.
PR Newswire; 11/30/2007; 700+ words
; ...AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost Insurance, the insurance agency subsidiary of Frost, today announced it has acquired Prime Benefits...Dick Evans, chairman and CEO of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc., parent company of Frost...
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Frost & Sullivan Honors Best Practices Leaders.
Business Wire; 10/26/2004; 700+ words
; PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Frost & Sullivan honored industry leaders for outstanding...Keynote Speech and had the following to say about Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Awards, "The Frost & Sullivan name is certainly one associated...
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Frost & Sullivan Recognises Best-in-Class Innovators.(Company overview)
PR Newswire Europe; 11/25/2009; 700+ words
; ...international and local companies were honoured at Frost & Sullivan's second annual African Excellence...demands of doing business in Africa," said Frost & Sullivan Partner and Director of African...respective disciplines: SEW EURODRIVE: 2008 Frost & Sullivan South African Gearboxes & Geared...
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Frost & Sullivan Recognises Best-in-Class Innovators.
PR Newswire; 11/25/2009; 700+ words
; ...international and local companies were honoured at Frost & Sullivan's second annual African Excellence...demands of doing business in Africa," said Frost & Sullivan Partner and Director of African...respective disciplines: SEW EURODRIVE: 2008 Frost & Sullivan South African Gearboxes & Geared...
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FROST BANK TO ACQUIRE NEW FIRST CITY BRANCHES
PR Newswire; 1/27/1993; 700+ words
; ...Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. (NASDAQ-NMS: CFBI) announced today that The Frost National Bank of San Antonio, its wholly...The announcement was made by T.C. Frost, chairman of the board. Upon consummation...
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Frost moves on after leaving mark at Texas State U.-San Marcos
News Wire article from: University Wire; 8/2/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...titles and accomplishments, Christopher Frost is also remarkably approachable. Texas...open to conversation in his presence. Frost's nature is at once cerebral and easygoing...Recently named Piper Professor for 2006, Frost's departure for a dean's position at...
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FROST IN TRANSLATION POET'S WORKS SHOWCASED IN SPANISH TO REACH NEW GENERATION IN LAWRENCE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/28/2005; ; 700+ words
; Robert Frost's fame may rest on his poems of rural...is quite different from the one in which Frost grew up, where the language spoken in many...has commissioned Spanish translations of Frost's poems and emblazoned them next to the...
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Frost & Sullivan Awards to Celebrate Growth and Innovation at GIL 2009.
PR Newswire; 3/18/2009; 700+ words
; ...cgi-bin/prnh/20081117/FSLOGO ) Frost & Sullivan will celebrate the success...Sofitel St. James in London following Frost & Sullivan's Global Congress on...achievements will be recognised during Frost & Sullivan's Growth Excellence...
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FROST'S POETRY REFLECTS NEW HAMPSHIRE.(TRAVEL)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 8/28/1994; 700+ words
; ...America embraced his verse, but Robert Frost's heart and much of his poetry belonged...inspired many of the lyrics that made Frost America's best-loved poet during his lifetime. Visitors can experience Frost's New Hampshire at two historic homesteads...
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Frost, Robert 1874-1963
Book article from: American Decades
...family spent the next decade. Frost wrote little poetry during his...the rest of his life. In 1911 Frost, who had returned to teaching...farm, and in summer 1912 the Frosts sailed to England, where Frost intended to devote all his time...
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Frost, Lane
Book article from: Notable Sports Figures
...Frost home page, starting when Frost was about five months old he...rodeo, was beginning. If the Frosts tried to leave early to beat the crowds, Frost would start to fuss, but as...riding he would be happy. The Frosts owned a dairy farm in Utah...
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Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. 100 West Houston Street...6021 National Commercial Banks Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc. is a bank holding company...two wholly owned banking subsidiaries: Frost National Bank (Frost) — the...
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frost
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...directly to a solid (see dew ). Frost often appears as a light feathery...The dates on which killing frosts (frost destructive to vegetation...air sufficiently to prevent frost. Valleys are more subject to frosts than slopes, since cold air...
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Frost, Robert
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Robert Frost Born: March 26, 1874San Francisco...announced the two modes of Frost's best poetry, the lyric...A public figure When the Frosts returned to the United States...bestseller. Sudden fame embarrassed Frost, who had always avoided crowds...
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