freezer meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

freezer

noun

UK /ˈfɹiːzə/ · US /ˈfɹizɚ/

Etymology From freeze + -er.

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.1976, USITC Publication - Issue 773, page A-33:
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.2016 June 27, Tejal Rao, “Making Mochi, a Japanese Treat That’s All About Texture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

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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.2019 August 6, Stephen Burgen, “Man caught fly-tipping fridge in ravine fined and made to drag it back”, in The Guardian:

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

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

Parkinson's disease

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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 […](page 231)
The execution of the program was suspended with a special hardware expansion, the freezer, and the contents of the memory were saved to disk.2016, Polgár Tamás, Freax: The Brief History of the Computer Demoscene:

Derived terms: biofreezer, bumfreezer, chest freezer, deepfreeze, deep-freeze, deep freeze, flash freezer, freezer bag, freezer block, freezer burn, freezer cooking, freezerful, freezerless, freezer paper, freezer-proof, freezer ship, freezerware, fridge-freezer, keezer, refrigerator-freezer, ultrafreezer, walk-in freezer