freezer
a refrigerator, refrigerator compartment, cabinet, or room held at or below 32°F (0°C), used especially for preserving and storing food.
a machine containing cold brine, ice, etc., for making ice cream, sherbet, or the like.
a person or thing that freezes or chills.
Origin of freezer
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How to use freezer in a sentence
Detained border-crossers may find themselves sent to the infamous hieleras, or ‘freezers.’
Immigrants Held in Border Deep Freezers | Rachael Bale, The Center for Investigative Reporting | November 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWe were not supposed to talk to them, but the bodies went to the stadium which had become a makeshift morgue full of freezers.
Former Syrian Soldier Describes Life in the Army at the Start of War | Andrew Slater | September 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMany household machines, I admit, are useful — cookers, dishwashers, fridges, freezers, toasters.
The Jeffrey Dahmer Award Given to the biggest crime of the year involving freezers.
One was a store, where a girl dressed like April Horn was demonstrating home freezers.
The Tunnel Under The World | Frederik Pohl
Three minutes may freeze a pudding in some freezers, but not in ours.
Life's Minor Collisions | Frances WarnerAt half-past two Bart loaded the two ice cream freezers on the cart and started for the picnic grounds.
Bart Stirling's Road to Success | Allen ChapmanThe use of salt and ice in ice-cream freezers is a practical application of this principle.
General Science | Bertha M. ClarkWed 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
/ (ˈfriːzə) /
Also called: deepfreeze a device that freezes or chills, esp an insulated cold-storage cabinet for long-term storage of perishable foodstuffs
a former name for refrigerator
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