freezer

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English

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Etymology

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From freeze +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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freezer (plural freezers)

  1. An appliance or room used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).
    Hyponyms: chest freezer, deep freeze, deep freezer, deep-freezer (stand-alone appliance); cooler (room), walk-in (room)
    Coordinate terms: fridge, refrigerator; icebox
  2. The section of a refrigerator used to store food or other perishable items at a temperature below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).
    Hypernym: compartment
    Holonyms: fridge, fridge-freezer, refrigerator, refrigerator-freezer
  3. (neuroscience, Parkinson's disease) A Parkinson's disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes.
  4. (computing) A hardware device that can freeze the state of the system to allow it to be inspected, saved or modified.
    • Early Home Computers (page 231)
      [] "freezer" cartridges (such as the Action Replay), as a convenient way to take control []
    • 2016, Polgár Tamás, Freax: The Brief History of the Computer Demoscene:
      The execution of the program was suspended with a special hardware expansion, the freezer, and the contents of the memory were saved to disk.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Macanese: friza

Translations

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English freezer.

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Noun

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freezer m (plural freezers)

  1. freezer compartment

Further reading

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Anagrams

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from English freezer.

Noun

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freezer m (plural freezers)

  1. Alternative spelling of frízer