freezer

[ free-zer ]
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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.

  1. a person or thing that freezes or chills.

Origin of freezer

1
First recorded in 1835–45; freeze + -er1

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How to use freezer in a sentence

  • Three minutes may freeze a pudding in some freezers, but not in ours.

    Life's Minor Collisions | Frances Warner
  • At half-past two Bart loaded the two ice cream freezers on the cart and started for the picnic grounds.

  • The use of salt and ice in ice-cream freezers is a practical application of this principle.

    General Science | Bertha M. Clark
  • Wed be in a fine fix if we found ourselves with two or three freezers of ice-cream on our hands and a lot of other truck.

    The Turner Twins | Ralph Henry Barbour

British Dictionary definitions for freezer

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

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