refrigerator
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- noun
- /rɪˈfrɪdʒəˌreɪtər/
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refrigerador
- To keep the salad fresh, store it in the refrigerator until you are ready to serve.
- kept in a refrigerator
- buy a refrigerator
- an electric refrigerator
Keep your eggs out of the refrigerator and they will last longer.
- Keep your eggs out of the refrigerator and they will last longer.
- Cheers next got my handy dandy refrigerator To Do List.
- So that is the interior of the refrigerator door that is this daily bot.
- All I know, all I know is how to make refrigerators.
- There was no kitchen, no telephone, no refrigerator.
- Shut your mouth, your kitchen, your refrigerator and watch your health bloom.
Examples
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I put the tape on pause and walked to the refrigerator for a nectarine.
Fiction book (1991) -
Dorothy brings us a water bottle from the refrigerator, and we move into the front room.
Fiction book (1991) -
Instead, he turned without saying a word and went to the refrigerator for a beer.
Fiction book (1990) -
Keep your eggs out of the refrigerator and they will last longer.
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Keep your refrigerator and freezer doors closed as much as possible to keep cold in, and heat out.
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After processing, the crawfish must be stored in a refrigerator or on ice.
Academic text (2013) -
I thought so too, honey, but we've got a refrigerator full of leftovers.
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There's beer in the refrigerator and if you like, you can go behind the bar, make yourself martinis.
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My grandparents had an electric refrigerator, but enough people still had iceboxes to support an icehouse.
Academic text (1999) -
She placed the leftover pasta in the refrigerator to eat it later.
Synonyms
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A cold box in the kitchen that keeps food and drink fresh
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A container that keeps food cold using blocks of ice without power
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A refrigerator often used to mean any brand of fridge
A machine that uses electricity to keep food cold
A short informal name for a fridge that keeps food cold
Compounds
A small sweet made from dough shaped into a roll, kept cold, sliced, and baked
- Slur
A mother wrongly blamed in the past for causing her child's autism because she seemed cold
How Cold
Surface Forms
Morphology
refrigerator = refrigerate (transparent) = refrigerate + or
Formed from the verb 'refrigerate' plus the agent/instrument suffix '-or'; the meaning 'a device that refrigerates' is directly predictable.
Etymology
The word refrigerator comes from Latin parts re- 'again' and frigus 'cold', so it means 'make cold again'. A helpful way to remember it is the short word fridge, because a refrigerator keeps food cold and fresh.