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noun

a cold towel, ice bag, etc., applied to the body to reduce swelling, relieve pain, etc.

Also called cold-pack method, raw-pack method. a method of canning uncooked food by placing it in hot jars or cans and sterilizing in a bath of boiling water or steam.

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Origin of cold pack

First recorded in 1905–10

Words nearby cold pack

coldie, Colditz, cold light, cold moulding, cold one, cold pack, cold patch, cold pole, cold-pressed, cold-roll, cold-rolled

Other definitions for cold pack (2 of 2)

cold-pack

[ kohld-pak ]

/ ˈkoʊldˌpæk /

verb (used with object)

to place a cold pack on: to cold-pack a feverish patient.

to can (food) by the cold-pack method.

Origin of cold-pack

First recorded in 1920–25

How to use cold pack in a sentence

American has both temperature-controlled containers and pre-packaged shipments with cold packs or dry ice.
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This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.
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We indulge in expensive cold-pressed juices and SoulCycle classes, justifying these purchases as investments in our health.
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Cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.
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The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.
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Accusing his opponents of being locked in a Cold War mind-set, it is Stone who is beholden to old orthodoxies.
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Madame de Condillac stood watching him, her face composed, her glance cold.
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Being quieted by the Captain with a draught of cold tea, and made to sit down, the examination of the book proceeded.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
When alone she sometimes picked it up and kissed the cold glass passionately.
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Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!
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Turn we our backs to the cold gloomy north, to the wet windy west, to the dry parching east—on to the south!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various

British Dictionary definitions for cold pack

cold pack

noun

a method of lowering the body temperature by wrapping a person in a sheet soaked in cold water
the sheet so used

a tinning process in which raw food is packed in cans or jars and then heated

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cold pack

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