单词 | freezer |
释义 | freezern. 1. A machine used for freezing, or for keeping anything extremely cold. Also, a refrigerated room; a compartment in a refrigerator or freezing machine. So in combinations. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by cooling or freezing > place or machine for ice room1758 ice chamber1768 icebox1792 cool chamber1801 ice chest1826 freezer1847 refrigerator1861 chill-room1884 ice cave1884 cold store1895 cool store1906 Coolgardie?1924 fridge1926 Frigidaire1926 deep freeze1941 chest freezer1947 hydro-cooler1947 reefer1958 fridge-freezer1971 flash freezer1984 blast freezer1986 the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > [noun] > frozen condition > freezing or becoming frozen > that which freezer1847 1847 in Missouri Hist. Rev. (1942) XXXVI. 121 An article called a ‘Freezer’, which consists of a cylindrical jar, made of block tin, and fitted with a close cover [for ice-cream manufacture]. 1860 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner (1887) 74 He had agitated a quantity of..milk in what was called a cream-freezer. 1870 E. Prentiss Let. 4 July in Life (1883) xi. 350 Papa bought a new fashioned freezer, that professed to freeze in two minutes. 1924 U.S. Dept. Agric. Dept. Bull. No. 1246. 9 Most packing and cold-storage plants are also equipped with what are known as ‘freezers’, which are refrigerating rooms in which the temperature can be lowered to 5° or 10°F.—sometimes lower. 1949 Gloss. Terms Refrigeration (B.S.I.) 9 Freezer, a low-temperature cold store, normally maintained below 20°F. 1959 B.S.I. News Apr. 17/1 The British Standards covering electric refrigerators and food freezers..have now been revised. 1959 Housewife June 129 A really big Kelvinator..gives you a roomier freezer compartment. 1961 Times 9 Aug. 5/2 The freezer trawler can stay on the fishing grounds until her holds are full. 1970 Kenya Farmer Feb. 15/1 A new freezer and chiller block. 2. Anything that freezes. ΚΠ 1833 T. Hood in Comic Ann. 142 The Maine—the Weser—or that freezer, Neva. 3. New Zealand. A sheep destined, when killed, to exportation in a cold chamber. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > mutton > [noun] > sheep killed for food killing-sheep1578 ration sheep1872 freezer1889 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > sheep for slaughter mutton?c1335 ration sheep1872 freezer1889 1889 G. P. Williams & W. P. Reeves Colonial Couplets 21 Be they [sc. sheep] freezers or crawlers or wethers or ewes. 1893 J. Hotson Lect. in Age 30 Nov. 7/2 The breeding of what are in New Zealand known as ‘freezers’. 1907 W. H. Koebel Return of Joe 177 Many were the pressings and pinches bestowed on each indignant animal before he was decided worthy of the honour of becoming a ‘freezer’. 4. In Chasing, a punch for producing a frosted groundwork. (Cf. frieze v.2 3) Also freezing tool n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > artistic work in metal > [noun] > chasing > tools freezer1887 freezing tool1887 1887 L. L. Haslope Repoussé Work 23 A small punch, called a freezing tool, which produces a small star. 1898 T. B. Wigley Art Goldsm. & Jeweller 79 Punches of various shapes, called chasing tools... Freezer. Mat. Dead Mat. Hair Mat. Compounds freezer-burn n. uneven discoloration of frozen meat or poultry that has been inadequately packaged to prevent surface evaporation. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > decay or deterioration of food > of frozen food freezer-burn1929 1929 Industr. & Engin. Chem. May 416/2 When certain forms of meats and poultry are sharp-frozen, the extensive drying of the surface, sometimes apparently associated with a partial oxidation of the fats..,causes an effect known as ‘freezer-burn’. 1979 Homes & Gardens June 154/2 Where inadequate or damaged packaging is used, freezer burn can occur, which shows up as dry discoloured patches on the exposed surface of the food. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1833 |
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