When cold winter weather sets in, a photographer taking a photo and a frigid pond both do this, though one freezes a motion while the other turns to ice. What is the word?
Freeze
To 'freeze' means both to halt motion (as in a frozen photo frame) and to turn liquid into ice due to low temperatures.
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