freezer

From freeze +‎ -er.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɹiːzə/

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• Rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)

freezer (plural freezers)

1. An appliance or room used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).

   Hyponyms: chest freezer, deep freeze, deep freezer, deep-freezer (stand-alone appliance); cooler (room), walk-in (room)

   Coordinate terms: fridge, refrigerator; icebox

2. The section of a refrigerator used to store food or other perishable items at a temperature below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).

   Hypernym: compartment

   Holonyms: fridge, fridge-freezer, refrigerator, refrigerator-freezer

3. (neuroscience, Parkinson's disease) A Parkinson's disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes.
4. (computing) A hardware device that can freeze the state of the system to allow it to be inspected, saved or modified.
   • Early Home Computers (page 231)

     "freezer" cartridges (such as the Action Replay), as a convenient way to take control

   • 2016, Polgár Tamás, Freax: The Brief History of the Computer Demoscene:

     The execution of the program was suspended with a special hardware expansion, the freezer, and the contents of the memory were saved to disk.

• → Macanese: friza

Borrowed from English freezer.

• IPA^(key): /fʁi.zœʁ/

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• Homophone: friseur

freezer m (plural freezers)

1. freezer compartment

• “freezer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• referez, référez

Unadapted borrowing from English freezer.

freezer m (plural freezers)

1. Alternative spelling of frízer