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English
Etymology
From liquidize + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
liquidizer (plural liquidizers)
- (Australia, India, UK) A machine to chop or puree food; a blender.
- 1976, Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, volume 3, issues 1-3, page 154:
- tissue was disrupted using a Moulinex liquidizer and 0-5% bovine serum albumin was added to the isolating and resuspending media.
2013, Rosamunde Pilcher, Flowers In the Rain & Other Stories, →ISBN:She bought herself a second-hand Mini and in no time at all was busy as a bee, driving herself around London with pots and pans, cooking knives and liquidizers all piled up on the back seat.
2013, Leah Leneman, The Tofu Cookbook: Over 150 quick and easy recipes, →ISBN:Place a cupful of the soaked beans in a liquidizer, add a cupful of cold water and blend.
Usage notes
- In Australia and India, the term may be uncommon, technical or dated.
- The term is found in some technical and trade publications in the US; it may be dated.
Quotations
2000, Eric Morris, Corregidor: The American Alamo of World War II, →ISBN, page 145:By now Erickson, like so many of the pilots, was flying without oxygen. The liquidizers and compressor plant had been early casualties of war at Nichols Field. Instead they flew on a mixture of quinine and atropine.
Synonyms
Translations
a machine to chop or puree food
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