freezer
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]freezer (plural freezers)
- 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
- 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
- (neuroscience, Parkinson's disease) A Parkinson's disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes.
- (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.
- Early Home Computers (page 231)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Macanese: friza
Translations
[edit]part of a refrigerator
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stand-alone appliance
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room
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English freezer.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]freezer m (plural freezers)
- freezer compartment
Further reading
[edit]- “freezer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English freezer.
Noun
[edit]freezer m (plural freezers)
- Alternative spelling of frízer
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