| 单词 | refrigerator |
| 释义 | refrigerator (once / 2682 pages) n A refrigerator is a kitchen appliance where you can store your perishable food at a cool temperature. You should store your milk and meat in the refrigerator to keep them from spoiling. The term refrigerator is often shortened to fridge, and because of this, people often mistakenly try to spell refrigerator with a d. Refrigerators come in all sizes, from a small cube that is often used in college dorm rooms by students trying to keep a six-pack of soda cool, to a huge walk-in refrigerator that might be used at a restaurant to cool all the ingredients for the week's meals. WORD FAMILYrefrigerator: refrigerators+/refrigerate: refrigerated, refrigerates, refrigerating, refrigeration, refrigerator/refrigeration: refrigerations USAGE EXAMPLESFrom the refrigerator temperature to how records are kept, there is little or no room for variance. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) One way firms are trying to do this is by focusing on the refrigerator. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) “I definitely get people who recognize me from someone else’s refrigerator,” said Lani Droz, now a graduate student who lives in Montreal. Wall Street Journal(Dec 30, 2016) n white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures Syn|Hypo|Hyper icebox cooler, ice chest a refrigerator for cooling liquids electric refrigerator, fridgea refrigerator in which the coolant is pumped around by an electric motor Deepfreeze, deep freezer, deep-freeze, freezerelectric refrigerator (trade name Deepfreeze) in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time ice machinean electric refrigerator to supply ice cubes white goods large electrical home appliances (refrigerators or washing machines etc.) that are typically finished in white enamel |
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