freezer

[free-zer]

noun

1. a refrigerator, refrigerator compartment, cabinet, or room held at or below 32°F (0°C), used especially for preserving and storing food.

2. a machine containing cold brine, ice, etc., for making ice cream, sherbet, or the like.

3. a person or thing that freezes or chills.

freezer

/ ˈfriːzə /

noun

1. Also called: deepfreeze. a device that freezes or chills, esp an insulated cold-storage cabinet for long-term storage of perishable foodstuffs

2. a former name for refrigerator

Word History and Origins

Origin of freezer¹

First recorded in 1835–45; freeze + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Whenever I forget to take the chicken out of the freezer, she lectures me—and then proceeds to prosecute me for forgetting to turn in my language arts essay.

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The brothers removed the freezer from the unit on the day the woman and her child disappeared, Tersch said.

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To test six buzzy winter jackets—in the fall—our writer visited a resort’s snow room and a restaurant’s walk-in freezer.

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This water is then passed through a refrigerant liquid, similar to what you would find in the back of a home fridge freezer.

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Out of the freezer, I’ll pull a roast — the last of a Red Devon steer raised on the wild grass of a friend’s farm, nearby in the Allegheny Mountains.

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Related Words

• cooler 
• refrigerator