cold storage
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3.7
- noun
- /koʊld ˈstɔːrɪdʒ/
:
almacenamiento en frío
- The company is currently renting cold storage facilities on the Songkhla-Hat Yai road, but has begun construction of its own cold storage and processing plant on a 12-ha site in Singha Nakhon, 25 km from Songkhla's new deep-water port.
- cold storage facilities
- cold storage and processing plant
- cold storage at 5°
Examples
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The seafood is placed in cold storage immediately after it arrives to preserve its quality.
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Aquastar transports the harvested shrimp to cold storage.
Academic text (1990) -
Treated apples held up well for as long as 50 days in cold storage, and in all cases, flavor was not affected.
Academic text (1998) -
CP's cold storage and processing plant was scheduled for completion in early March 1990.
Academic text (1990) -
A technique called reconditioning has to be used for some potatoes that don't do well in cold storage.
Academic text (2003) -
Squash treated with methyl jasmonate showed no deterioration from cold-storage temperatures for up to 8 days, while untreated squash started to deteriorate after just 4 days.
Academic text (1998) -
The strawberries were kept in cold storage to maintain their freshness for the winter market.
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Many restaurants use cold storage facilities to ensure they have fresh ingredients year-round.
Synonyms
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1.0
A cold box that keeps food frozen for a long time
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7.9
A container that keeps food cold using blocks of ice without power
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3.5
Cooling or freezing food to keep it fresh
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1.7
A portable box that keeps food and drinks cold with ice
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3.3
Machines that cool or freeze food and other items to keep them fresh
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2.6
A large electric box that keeps food very cold for a long time
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9.2
A machine that keeps things very cold for lab work
How Cold
Surface Forms
Morphology
While 'cold storage' could be literally understood as refrigerated storage from 'cold' + 'storage', its computing sense (archival, rarely accessed data) is a metaphorical extension where 'cold' signals low activity. This mapping is somewhat inferable but potentially ambiguous for a B1 learner without technical context, so the expression is partially but not fully transparent.
Etymology
Cold storage is the name for a very cold room or system where food, medicine, or chemicals are kept so they do not go bad. The idea is clear: things put into a cold place slow down and stay fresh, so the phrase means 'a place or system for keeping goods at low temperatures to keep them fresh'.