ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Freezer

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈfɹiːzə/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Freezer is a noun meaning An appliance or room used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).

Meaning

An appliance or room used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).

More Meanings

  1. The section of a refrigerator used to store food or other perishable items at a temperature below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).
  2. (neuroscience, Parkinson's disease) A Parkinson's disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes.
  3. (computing) A hardware device that can freeze the state of the system to allow it to be inspected, saved or modified.

Example Sentences

Holonyms: fridge, fridge-freezer, refrigerator, refrigerator-freezer
[…] "freezer" cartridges (such as the Action Replay), as a convenient way to take control […]
The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp.
The execution of the program was suspended with a special hardware expansion, the freezer, and the contents of the memory were saved to disk.

Word Forms

Synonyms for freezer

Depending on context, synonyms include deepfreeze.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deepfreeze, refrigerator, fridge, icebox, refrigeration, cooler.

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