refrigerate
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From participle stem of Latin refrigerō (“to make cold”), from re- + frigerō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəɹeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]refrigerate (third-person singular simple present refrigerates, present participle refrigerating, simple past and past participle refrigerated)
- (transitive, obsolete in general sense) To make (someone or something) cool; to cool down.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
- [T]he other [artery] goes to the lungs, to fetch air to refrigerate the heart.
- 1702, Cotton Mather, “[Book VI (Thaumaturgus: […]).] Chapter I. Christus Super Aquas: Relating Wonderful Sea Deliverances.”, in Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620. unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. […], London: […] Thomas Parkhurst, […], →OCLC, section VI (Sore Calamities at Sea Survived), page 5, column 2:
- They vvould go over board vvith a Rope faſtned about them, that by drenching themſelves a vvhile in the Sea, they might eaſe the internal Heat vvhich parched them; and vvhen they ſtood any of them to ſteer the Veſſel, they vvould have their Feet in a Pail of Sea VVater to refrigerate 'em.
- 1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 2, page 104:
- Persons born in winter are, so to say, of a cold and frosty disposition and can thereby exert a refrigerating influence on the temperature of the air.
- (transitive, specifically) To keep (something) cool by containing within a refrigerator.
- Synonym: fridge
- Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]keep cool in refrigerator
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freeze — see freeze
cool down — see cool down
See also
[edit]- refrigeration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]refrigerate
- inflection of refrigerare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]refrigerate f pl
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]refrīgerāte
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]refrigerate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of refrigerar combined with te
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