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freezer

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈfɹiːzə//
  • United States//ˈfɹizɚ//

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

noun

  1. 1

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

    The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp.

    It’s easy to grab plastic-wrapped daifuku at Japanese grocery stores in New York, and to spot boxes of mochi ice cream in supermarket freezer aisles.

    Fridges contain gases that can cause serious environmental damage and are among the most toxic white goods if not disposed of correctly, along with freezers and air conditioning units.

  2. 2

    The section of a refrigerator used to store food or other perishable items at a temperature below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).

    Holonyms: fridge, fridge-freezer, refrigerator, refrigerator-freezer

  3. 3

    A Parkinson's disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes.

  4. 4

    A hardware device that can freeze the state of the system to allow it to be inspected, saved or modified.

    […] "freezer" cartridges (such as the Action Replay), as a convenient way to take control […]

    The execution of the program was suspended with a special hardware expansion, the freezer, and the contents of the memory were saved to disk.

Etymology

Etymology tree English freeze Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English freezer From freeze + -er.

Forms

plural
freezers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).