Freezer

//ˈfɹizɚ// name, noun

name, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An appliance or room used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).

    "The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp."

  2. 2
    electric refrigerator (trade name Deepfreeze) in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time wordnet
  3. 3
    The section of a refrigerator used to store food or other perishable items at a temperature below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).

    "Holonyms: fridge, fridge-freezer, refrigerator, refrigerator-freezer"

  4. 4
    A Parkinson's disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes.
  5. 5
    A hardware device that can freeze the state of the system to allow it to be inspected, saved or modified.

    "[…] "freezer" cartridges (such as the Action Replay), as a convenient way to take control […]"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A rare surname.

Example

More examples

"There are several good reasons why I have a freezer."

Etymology

From freeze + -er.

Related phrases

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