"freeze-up" meaning in English

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"seasons\"",
      "word": "breakup"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "freeze up"
      },
      "expansion": "Deverbal from freeze up",
      "name": "deverbal"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from freeze up.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "freeze-ups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "freeze-up (plural freeze-ups)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The blocking of pipes due to freezing."
      ],
      "id": "en-freeze-up-en-noun-nJ0xWkyG",
      "links": [
        [
          "block",
          "block"
        ],
        [
          "pipe",
          "pipe"
        ],
        [
          "freezing",
          "freeze"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962 December, “Talking of Trains: Point heaters on the S.R.”, in Modern Railways, page 371",
          "text": "The heaters, the S.R. now says, will \"help tremendously\" if there is severe snow and ice—a welcome change of tune from last winter, when the Region was countering criticism of its operation during the January freeze-up with a bland defence of existing precautions [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A period of extremely cold, freezing weather."
      ],
      "id": "en-freeze-up-en-noun-j81JOe9f"
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Time",
          "orig": "en:Time",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 28 57",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English deverbals",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 27 64",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The start of the time when surface waters are frozen over."
      ],
      "id": "en-freeze-up-en-noun-TYzm0fJQ",
      "links": [
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(seasons, time) The start of the time when surface waters are frozen over."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "climatology",
        "meteorology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "seasons",
        "time",
        "weather"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "32 19 49",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "water freeze-up season",
          "word": "gel"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "32 19 49",
          "code": "oj",
          "lang": "Ojibwe",
          "sense": "water freeze-up season",
          "word": "migiskāw"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "freeze-up"
}

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "antonym(s) of \"seasons\"",
      "word": "breakup"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English deverbals",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "freeze up"
      },
      "expansion": "Deverbal from freeze up",
      "name": "deverbal"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Deverbal from freeze up.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "freeze-ups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "freeze-up (plural freeze-ups)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The blocking of pipes due to freezing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "block",
          "block"
        ],
        [
          "pipe",
          "pipe"
        ],
        [
          "freezing",
          "freeze"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962 December, “Talking of Trains: Point heaters on the S.R.”, in Modern Railways, page 371",
          "text": "The heaters, the S.R. now says, will \"help tremendously\" if there is severe snow and ice—a welcome change of tune from last winter, when the Region was countering criticism of its operation during the January freeze-up with a bland defence of existing precautions [...].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A period of extremely cold, freezing weather."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Time"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The start of the time when surface waters are frozen over."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(seasons, time) The start of the time when surface waters are frozen over."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "climatology",
        "meteorology",
        "natural-sciences",
        "seasons",
        "time",
        "weather"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "water freeze-up season",
      "word": "gel"
    },
    {
      "code": "oj",
      "lang": "Ojibwe",
      "sense": "water freeze-up season",
      "word": "migiskāw"
    }
  ],
  "word": "freeze-up"
}