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re·frig·er·a·tor

(rĭ-frĭj′ə-rā′tər)

An appliance, cabinet, or room for storing food or other substances at a low temperature.

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refrigerator

(rɪˈfrɪdʒəˌreɪtə)

a chamber in which food, drink, etc, are kept cool. Informal word: fridge

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re•frig•er•a•tor

(rɪˈfrɪdʒ əˌreɪ tər)

n.

1. a box, room, or cabinet in which food, drink, etc., are kept cool by means of ice or mechanical refrigeration.

2. the part of a distilling apparatus that cools the volatile material, causing it to condense; condenser.

[1605–15]

Refrigerator

In the early twentieth century, a refrigerator was what would now be called an Icebox. That is, an insulated cabinet that used blocks of ice to keep food stored in the cabinet cool.

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Noun

refrigerator - white goods in which food can be stored at low temperatures

icebox

cooler, ice chest - a refrigerator for cooling liquids

drip pan - pan under a refrigerator for collecting liquid waste

electric refrigerator, fridge - a refrigerator in which the coolant is pumped around by an electric motor

refrigeration system - a cooling system for chilling or freezing (usually for preservative purposes)

white goods - large electrical home appliances (refrigerators or washing machines etc.) that are typically finished in white enamel

Translations

برادثلاجةثَلاجَه، بَرّادثَلَّاجَة

chladničkalednicelednička

køleskab

Kühlschrank

ψυγείο

frigorífico nevera refrigerador refrigeradora

jääkaappi

réfrigérateur glacière

hladnjak

frizsiderhűtőszekrény

ísskápurkæliskápur

frigorifero refrigerante refrigerato refrigerazione

冷蔵庫

냉장고

šaldymasšaldyti

ledusskapissaldētava

koelkastfrigoijskast

kjøleskap

chłodziarka lodówka

geladeira refrigerador frigorífico

холодильник рефрижератор

chladničkaľadnička

hladilnik

kylskåp

ตู้เย็น

buzdolabı

tủ lạnh

冰箱电冰箱

refrigerator

[rɪˈfrɪdʒəreɪtəʳ]

A. N → frigorífico m, nevera f, refrigeradora f (LAm)

B. CPD refrigerator lorry N → camión m frigorífico
refrigerator ship N → buque m frigorífico

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

refrigerator

[rɪˈfrɪdʒəreɪtə^r] n → réfrigérateur m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

refrigerator

n → Kühlschrank m, → Eisschrank m; (= room) → Kühlraum m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

refrigerator

[rɪˈfrɪdʒəˌreɪtəʳ] n → frigorifero

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

refrigerator

(rəˈfridʒəreitə) noun

(also fridge (fridʒ) . American also ˈicebox) a machine which keeps food cold and so prevents it from going bad: Milk should be kept in the refrigerator.

reˈfrigerate verb

to keep (food) cold to prevent it from going bad. Meat should be refrigerated.

reˌfrigeˈration noun

refrigerator

→ ثَلَّاجَة lednička køleskab Kühlschrank ψυγείο refrigerador jääkaappi réfrigérateur hladnjak frigorifero 冷蔵庫 냉장고 koelkast kjøleskap chłodziarka frigorífico, geladeira холодильник kylskåp ตู้เย็น buzdolabı tủ lạnh 电冰箱

refrigerator

n refrigerador m

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This noble Refrigerator had iced several European courts in his time, and had done it with such complete success that the very name of Englishman yet struck cold to the stomachs of foreigners who had the distinguished honour of remembering him at a distance of a quarter of a century.

There was a whisper of the pervading Bohemian character in the nomadic nature of the service and its curious races of plates and dishes; but the noble Refrigerator, infinitely better than plate or porcelain, made it superb.

The noble Refrigerator assented; but added that if William Barnacle and Tudor Stiltstalking, when they came over to one another and formed their ever-memorable coalition, had boldly muzzled the newspapers, and rendered it penal for any Editor-person to presume to discuss the conduct of any appointed authority abroad or at home, he thought the country would have been preserved.

In the course of a couple of hours the noble Refrigerator, at no time less than a hundred years behind the period, got about five centuries in arrears, and delivered solemn political oracles appropriate to that epoch.

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The iceman lingered too long now, when he came into the covered porch to fill the refrigerator. The delivery boys hung about the kitchen when they brought the groceries.

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Water can only be made cold enough for summer comfort by being prepared in a refrigerator or a closed ice-pitcher.

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From the refrigerator he gave her all the ice she wished to carry, breaking it into convenient pieces for her.

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Jo uttered a groan and fell back in her chair, remembering that she had given a last hasty powdering to the berries out of one of the two boxes on the kitchen table, and had neglected to put the milk in the refrigerator. She turned scarlet and was on the verge of crying, when she met Laurie's eyes, which would look merry in spite of his heroic efforts.

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And then the visitors were taken to the other parts of the building, to see what became of each particle of the waste material that had vanished through the floor; and to the pickling rooms, and the salting rooms, the canning rooms, and the packing rooms, where choice meat was prepared for shipping in refrigerator cars, destined to be eaten in all the four corners of civilization.

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As to Sir Leicester, he conceives it utterly impossible that anything can be wanting, in any direction, by any one who has the good fortune to be received under that roof; and in a state of sublime satisfaction, he moves among the company, a magnificent refrigerator.

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Maud and her bosom friend, "Gwace," were seated on tin cake-boxes; Sherry and Spider adorned the refrigerator; while Tom and Rumple foraged for the party.

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True, other fish are found exceedingly brisk in those Hyperborean waters; but these, be it observed, are your cold-blooded, lungless fish, whose very bellies are refrigerators; creatures, that warm themselves under the lee of an iceberg, as a traveller in winter would bask before an inn fire; whereas, like man, the whale has lungs and warm blood.