antifreeze

English

Alternative forms

• anti-freeze

Etymology

From anti- +‎ freeze.

Pronunciation

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Noun

antifreeze (countable and uncountable, plural antifreezes)

1. A substance, such as glycol, used to lower the freezing point of water.
2. (automotive) Automotive antifreeze, a solution of ethylene glycol, used as an additive to water or a replacement for water, in the radiator of a motorcar.
3. (aviation) A deicer, a heated glycol solution used to remove ice from the aerodynamic surfaces of an airplane, and to prevent icing while on the tarmac.

Related terms

• antifreezing

Descendants

• → Albanian: antifrizë
• → Bulgarian: антифри́з (antifríz)
• → Macedonian: антифриз (antifriz)
• → Russian: антифри́з (antifríz)
  • → Armenian: անտիֆրիզ (antifriz)
  • → Estonian: antifriis
  • → Georgian: ანტიფრიზი (anṭiprizi)
  • → Kazakh: антифриз (antifriz)
  • → Lithuanian: antifrizas
• → Serbo-Croatian: ȁntifrīz / а̏нтифрӣз
• → Turkish: antifriz

Translations

a substance used to lower the freezing point of water

• Albanian: antifrizë
• Armenian: հակասառիչ (hy) (hakasaṙičʻ), անտիֆրիզ (hy) (antifriz)
• Bulgarian: антифри́з m (antifríz)
• Catalan: anticongelant m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 防凍液 / 防冻液 (zh) (fángdòngyè)

• Czech: nemrznoucí kapalina f, chladicí kapalina f
• Danish: frostvæske c
• Dutch: antivries (nl) m
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: antifriis
• Finnish: pakkasneste
• French: antigel (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Frostschutzmittel (de) n
• Greek: αντιψυκτικό (el) n (antipsyktikó)
• Icelandic: frostlögur (is) m
• Irish: frithreo m
• Italian: antigelo
• Japanese: 不凍液 (ふとうえき, futōeki)
• Korean: 부동액(不凍液) (ko) (budong'aek)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: antifrizas m
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frostvæske m or f

  Nynorsk: frostvæske f

• Plautdietsch: Antiefries n
• Polish: odmrażacz m, płyn chłodniczy (pl) m
• Portuguese: anticongelante (pt) m
• Russian: антифри́з (ru) m (antifríz)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̏нтифрӣз m

  Latin: ȁntifrīz (sh) m

• Spanish: anticongelante (es) m, antifrís m (United States)
• Swedish: frostskydd n, glykol (sv) c
• Turkish: antifriz (tr), dondurmaz (rare)
• Welsh: gwrthrewydd m

Adjective

antifreeze

1. Of or pertaining to such a substance.

Further reading

• antifreeze on Wikipedia.Wikipedia