American Sign Language: "cold"
The sign for "cold" means "cold temperature." It doesn't mean "to have a head-cold" or to be sick. Use your arms to represent shivering.
COLD:
Sample sentence: "Do you like cold weather?"
To sign "very cold" use more facial expression, hunch your shoulders more, and move the "shivering of your arms" faster and tighter.
very-COLD:
WINTER:
Many people use the sign "COLD" to mean winter. This works well in context but if there isn't much context I prefer to initialize the sign "winter" by using a "W" as the handshape.
REFRIGERATOR:
You could sign refrigerator by initializing this sign, but I recommend you just spell "REF."
Here is a sign for refrigerator that initializes the sign COLD with "R" handshapes to mean refrigerator:
Remember, I recommend you just spell, R-E-F. Some people feel that the initialized form of the sign "refrigerator" is signed English. I disagree, but do the sign the way your local instructor wants it just to be safe eh?
You could also initialize the sign for "DOOR" to mean refrigerator.
See: REFRIGERATOR
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