refrigerator

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
17
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tə/
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/ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tə/ · [ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tʰə] · /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/ · [ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.ɾɚ] · /ɹəˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/ · [ɹəˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.ɾɚ]

Definition of refrigerator

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A household or commercial appliance used for keeping food fresh by refrigeration (short form fridge).
    “Meronym: condenser”
    “Jo uttered a groan and fell back in her chair, remembering that she had given a last hasty powdering to the berries out of one of the two boxes on the kitchen table, and had neglected to put the milk in the refrigerator.”
    “An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.”
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noun

  1. A household or commercial appliance used for keeping food fresh by refrigeration (short form fridge).
    “Meronym: condenser”
    “Jo uttered a groan and fell back in her chair, remembering that she had given a last hasty powdering to the berries out of one of the two boxes on the kitchen table, and had neglected to put the milk in the refrigerator.”
    “An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.”
  2. A similar device used to keep non-food items cold, such as blood, photographic film, drugs, or pharmaceuticals like insulin.
    “Meronym: condenser”
  3. One who has a chilling influence.
    “[…] in a state of sublime satisfaction, he moves among the company, a magnificent refrigerator.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin refrīgerātor (“cooler”).

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