Freeze

Freeze may refer to:

In liquids turning to solids:

  • Freezing, the physical process of a liquid turning into a solid
  • Freeze drying, a method of rapidly removing moisture from food products

In cessation of movement or change:

  • Freeze (breakdance move), the halting of all movement in a clever position
  • Freeze (computing), a condition when computer software becomes unresponsive
  • Freeze (software engineering), a period of stricter rules for changing the software during its development
  • Nuclear freeze an agreement to cease production of new nuclear arms

In music and entertainment:

  • Freeze (exhibition), a 1988 art show held by various UK artists in London Docklands
  • "Freeze" (Bloodline song)
  • "Freeze", a song by Jordin Sparks from her self-titled album Jordin Sparks
  • "Freeze", a song by Pepper from the album Pink Crustaceans and Good Vibrations
  • "Freeze" (T-Pain song) featuring Chris Brown
  • "Freeze" (Queen Elvis song)
  • "Freeze" (Todd Smith song)
  • The Freeze, a punk rock band from Boston, Massachusetts
  • The Freeze (Scottish band), a punk band from Edinburgh, Scotland, pre-Cindytalk
  • Mr. Freeze, a DC comic book supervillain
  • Freeez a UK dance group from London, active in the 1980s

In people:

  • Hugh Freeze, American college football coach


Famous quotes containing the word freeze:

    “Ice doesn’t freeze three feet thick over night.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. The hospitality was as cold as the ices. I thought that there was no need of ice to freeze them.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.”
    —Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)