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refrigerator|rɪˈfrɪdʒəreɪtə(r)|
[f. refrigerate v. + -or. Cf. obs. F. refrigerateur (Cotgr.).]
1. That which refrigerates or cools. In later use transf. from 2.
1611Cotgr., Refrigerateur, a refrigerator, refresher, cooler. 1862Rawlinson Anc. Mon., Assyria ii. I. 267 Trees, those great refrigerators. 1876Fortn. Rev. Mar. 347 An enormous natural refrigerator in the shape of the Rosegg glacier.
transf. and fig.1809Malkin Gil Blas vii. x. ⁋4 A reflection..so virtuous acted as a refrigerator on my spirits. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xl, He moves among the company, a magnificent refrigerator.
2. An apparatus, vessel, or chamber for producing or maintaining a low degree of temperature.
The following are some of the commoner specific applications of the term: a. A chamber or vat for cooling worts in a brewery. b. Any vessel, chamber, or apparatus in which the contents are preserved by maintaining a temperature near, at, or below freezing point, esp. in the cold storage of food. c. An ice-making machine. d. = refrigeratory n. 1. e. That part of a surface-condenser in which the steam evaporated from salt-water is condensed into fresh water to supply the boilers of marine engines. f. (Incorrectly applied to) an arrangement whereby the feed-water is warmed on its way to the boiler of a marine engine by a current of hot waste brine pumped from the boiler.
1824Specif. Maudslay & Field's Patent No. 5021. 3 Passing the hot brine and the supply water for the boiler through a system of tubes or vessels of extended surface called a refrigerator. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1183 [The vapour] may be conducted to a worm or refrigerator, to be cooled in the ordinary way. 1841C. Cist Cincinnati in 1841 (Advt.), Refrigerators or Ice Chests. 1861Wynter Soc. Bees 192 Every man who possesses a refrigerator has the power of arresting for a time the natural decay of animal and vegetable substances. 1881Marine Engineer 1 Jan. 226 We think the time is not far distant when all Australian and Eastern liners will be fitted throughout with refrigerators. 1958Times 13 Jan. 11/2 Only 10 per cent. of the population of this island have refrigerators, against 90 per cent. in the United States. 1975N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Sept. 39/1 My first impression was that the New Zealand farm equipment manufacturers were attempting to ‘sell refrigerators to the Eskimos’, because, among the massive displays by the British manufacturers, a comparative handful of New Zealand firms were trying to enter an overcrowded market.
3. attrib. and Comb., as refrigerator beef, refrigerator car, refrigerator engineer, refrigerator-freezer, refrigerator-maker, refrigerator ship, refrigerator truck.
1881Chicago Times 4 June, American refrigerator beef sold at London and Liverpool to-day at 5½d.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1911/1 Refrigerator-car. (Railway.) 1883Goode Fish. Indust. U.S.A. 9 (Fish. Exh. Publ.), Refrigerator cars carry unfrozen fish from sea and lake inland.
1909Westm. Gaz. 6 Sept. 5/3 The second refrigerator-engineer..informed us that the boats had put off. 1960M. Spark Ballad of Peckham Rye ii. 27 Humphrey Place, refrigerator engineer of Freeze-eezy's.
1963Which? 6 Feb. 42/1 The combined refrigerator-freezer..will hold more frozen food than a refrigerator's freezing compartment. 1976Woman's Day (U.S.) Nov. 125 Self-defrosting refrigerator-freezer has built-in energy-saving condenser.
1950Manch. Guardian Weekly 7 Dec. 15/3 The Sullivan tunes in the interest of the butcher and baker and refrigerator-maker.
1877in Sci. Amer. (1977) Jan. 14/3 A despatch from M. Tellier to the French Academy of Sciences announces the arrival of the refrigerator ship Frigorific at Pernambuco, Brazil. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 21 Oct. 12/5 The Moliere, another refrigerator ship..is at Seattle loading. 1976Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 12 Sept. 10/1 A refrigerator ship carrying, eggs, bacon and steel to England.
1971P. O'Donnell Impossible Virgin x. 211 Get Brunel boxed up and put in the refrigerator truck. 1974R. B. Parker God save Child vi. 48 A big refrigerator truck lumbered by on the highway. |