Usually means: Common respiratory infections, usually mild.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. colds: Merriam-Webster
  2. colds: Vocabulary.com
  3. Colds, cold's, colds: Wordnik
  4. colds: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. colds: Wiktionary
  6. colds: Dictionary.com
  7. colds: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Colds: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Colds: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Colds: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Colds: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. colds: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. colds: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  3. Colds: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. COLDS: Acronym Finder
  2. Colds: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

(Note: See cold as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (COLD)

adjective:  (of a thing) Having a low temperature.
adjective:  (of the weather) Causing the air to be cold.
adjective:  (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.
adjective:  Unfriendly; emotionally distant or unfeeling.
adjective:  Chilled, filled with an uncomfortable sense of fear, dread, or alarm.
adjective:  Dispassionate; not prejudiced or partisan; impartial.
adjective:  Completely unprepared; without introduction.
adjective:  Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.
adjective:  (usually with "have" or "know" transitively) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart; down pat.
adjective:  (usually with "have" transitively) Cornered; done for.
adjective:  (slang) Cool, impressive.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not pungent or acrid.
adjective:  (obsolete) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.
adjective:  Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not sensitive; not acute.
adjective:  Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm and hot.
adjective:  (painting) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.
adjective:  (databases) Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
adjective:  (informal) Without compassion; heartless; ruthless.
adjective:  (informal) Not radioactive.
adjective:  (firearms) Not loaded with a round of live ammunition.
adjective:  Without electrical power being supplied.
noun:  (uncountable) A condition of low temperature.
noun:  (with 'the', figurative) A harsh place; a place of abandonment.
noun:  (countable, pathology) A common, usually harmless, usually viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) Rheum; sleepy dust.
adverb:  At a low temperature.
adverb:  Without preparation.
adverb:  (slang, informal, dated) In a cold, frank, or realistically honest manner.
noun:  (computing) Acronym of computer output to laser disc.
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