"colds" in the noun sense
1. cold, common cold
a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs
"will they never find a cure for the common cold?"
2. coldness, cold, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness
the absence of heat
"the coldness made our breath visible"
"come in out of the cold"
"cold is a vasoconstrictor"
3. cold, coldness
the sensation produced by low temperatures
"he shivered from the cold"
"the cold helped clear his head"
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