freezer
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /fɹiːzə/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)
Noun
freezer (plural freezers)
- An appliance or room used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).
- The section of a refrigerator used to store food or other perishable items at a temperature below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).
- (neuroscience, Parkinson's disease) A Parkinson's disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes.
Synonyms
- cooler (room)
- deep freeze, deep freezer, deep-freezer (stand-alone appliance)
- walk-in freezer (room)
Derived terms
- biofreezer
- chest freezer
- deepfreeze, deep-freeze, deep freeze
- freezer bag
- freezer block
- freezer burn
- freezer cooking
- freezer paper
- freezer-proof
- fridge-freezer
Translations
part of a refrigerator
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stand-alone appliance
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room
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See also
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fʁi.zœʁ/
Audio (file) - Homophone: friseur
Further reading
- “freezer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
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