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Refrigerator

Re-frig′er-aˊtor

(-?ˊt?r)
,
Noun.
That which refrigerates or makes cold; that which keeps cool.
Specifically:
(a)
A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice.
(b)
An apparatus for rapidly cooling heated liquids or vapors, connected with a still, etc.
Refrigerator car
(Railroad)
,
a freight car constructed as a refrigerator, for the transportation of fresh meats, fish, etc., in a temperature kept cool by ice.

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refrigerator

refrigerator

English

Noun

refrigerator (plural refrigerators)

An open refrigerator
  1. A household appliance used for keeping food fresh by refrigeration (short form fridge).
    • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):
      An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.
  2. One who has a chilling influence.
    • Charles Dickens, Bleak House
      [] in a state of sublime satisfaction, he moves among the company, a magnificent refrigerator.

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Latin

Verb

rēfrīgerātor

  1. second-person singular future passive imperative of rēfrīgerō
  2. third-person singular future passive imperative of rēfrīgerō