Refrigerator
[rɪ'frɪdʒəreɪtə] or [rɪ'frɪdʒəretɚ]
Definition
(noun.) white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures.
Checker: Sinclair--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which refrigerates or makes cold; that which keeps cool.
(n.) A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice.
(n.) An apparatus for rapidly cooling heated liquids or vapors, connected with a still, etc.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a refrigerator in your dreams, portends that your selfishness will offend and injure some one who endeavors to gain an honest livelihood. To put ice in one, brings the dreamer into disfavor.
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Examples
- The fruit is shipped in refrigerator cars, and is usually about eight days in making the trip from Southern California to the Eastern markets. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Over 600 United States patents have been granted for ice machines alone, to say nothing of refrigerating buildings, refrigerator cars, domestic refrigerators, and ice cream freezers, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- To-day every ocean liner is equipped with its own cold storage and ice-making plant, refrigerator cars transport vast cargoes of meats, fish, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Yes, sir, and Jo felt as calm and cool all of a sudden as if she had stepped into a refrigerator. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- For family or grocers’ use this will prove even more serviceable than some of the high-priced patent refrigerators. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Over 600 United States patents have been granted for ice machines alone, to say nothing of refrigerating buildings, refrigerator cars, domestic refrigerators, and ice cream freezers, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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