freezer

English

Etymology

From freeze +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɹiːzə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iːzə(ɹ)

Noun

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

   • 1976, USITC Publication - Issue 773, page A-33:

     The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp.

   • 2016 June 27, Tejal Rao, “Making Mochi, a Japanese Treat That’s All About Texture”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     It’s easy to grab plastic-wrapped daifuku at Japanese grocery stores in New York, and to spot boxes of mochi ice cream in supermarket freezer aisles.

   • 2019 August 6, Stephen Burgen, “Man caught fly-tipping fridge in ravine fined and made to drag it back”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Fridges contain gases that can cause serious environmental damage and are among the most toxic white goods if not disposed of correctly, along with freezers and air conditioning units.

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.

Derived terms

• biofreezer
• bumfreezer
• chest freezer
• deepfreeze, deep-freeze, deep freeze
• freezer bag
• freezer block
• freezer burn
• freezer cooking
• freezer paper
• freezer-proof
• fridge-freezer
• refrigerator-freezer

 

Descendants

• → Macanese: friza

Translations

part of a refrigerator

• Arabic:

  Gulf Arabic: فريزر m (frēzar)

  Moroccan Arabic: فريڭو m (frīgu)

  North Levantine Arabic: تلاجة (tallāje)

  South Levantine Arabic: فريزر (frīzar)

• Armenian: սառցարան (hy) (saṙcʻaran)
• Azerbaijani: buzluq
• Belarusian: маразі́лка f (marazílka)
• Bulgarian: ка́мера f (kámera) (за дълбоко замразяване)
• Catalan: congelador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰櫃 / 冰柜 (zh) (bīngguì)

• Czech: mrazák (cs) m, mraznička (cs) f
• Danish: fryser (da) c
• Dutch: vriezer (nl) m, diepvries (nl) m, diepvriezer (nl) m
• Estonian: sügavkülmkapp
• Finnish: pakastelokero (fi)
• French: congélateur (fr) m
• German: Gefrierschrank (de) m, Gefriertruhe (de) f, Gefrierfach (de) n
• Greek: κατάψυξη (el) f (katápsyxi)
• Hebrew: מַקְפִּיא (he) m (makpí)
• Hungarian: fagyasztó (hu)
• Icelandic: frystihólf (is) n
• Italian: freezer (it) m, congelatore (it) m, surgelatore (it) m
• Japanese: 冷凍庫 (ja) (れいとうこ, reitōko), フリーザー (ja) (furīzā)
• Kazakh: мұздатқыш (kk) (mūzdatqyş)
• Khmer: ថតបង្កក (thɑɑt bɑngkɑɑk)
• Korean: 냉동고(冷凍庫) (ko) (naengdonggo), 랭동고(冷凍庫) (raengdonggo) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: тоңдургуч (toŋdurguc)
• Ladino: frizer m
• Latvian: saldētava f
• Lithuanian: šaldiklis m
• Macedonian: замрзнувач m (zamrznuvač)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: pākatio
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хөлдөөгч (mn) (xöldöögč)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠯᠳᠡᠭᠡᠭᠴᠢ (köldegeɣči)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fryser (no) m, dypfryser m

• Polish: zamrażarka (pl) f
• Portuguese: congelador (pt) m, frízer (pt) m
• Romanian: congelator (ro) n
• Russian: морози́лка (ru) f (morozílka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: замрзѝва̄ч m

  Roman: zamrzìvāč (sh) m

• Slovak: mraznička f
• Slovene: zamrzovalnik m
• Spanish: congelador (es) m
• Swedish: frysfack (sv) n
• Tajik: сармодон (sarmodon), морозилка (morozilka)
• Thai: ช่องแช่แข็ง
• Turkish: dondurucu (tr), buzluk (tr)
• Ukrainian: морози́лка f (morozýlka)
• Uzbek: muzlatgich
• Vietnamese: máy đông lạnh
• Walloon: edjaloe (wa) m
• Welsh: rhewgell (cy) f

stand-alone appliance

• Albanian: frigoriferi
• Arabic:

  Egyptian: فريزر m (ferīzar, ferēzar)

  Gulf Arabic: فريزر m (frēzar)

  Moroccan Arabic: فريڭو m (frīgu)

  North Levantine Arabic: تلاجة (tallāje)

  South Levantine Arabic: فريزر (frīzar)

• Armenian: սառցարան (hy) (saṙcʻaran)
• Basque: izozkailu (eu)
• Belarusian: маразі́лка f (marazílka)
• Bulgarian: фри́зер m (frízer)
• Catalan: congelador (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冰櫃 / 冰柜 (zh) (bīngguì)

• Czech: mraznička (cs) f, mrazák (cs) m
• Dutch: vriezer (nl) m, diepvriezer (nl) m, diepvries (nl) m
• Esperanto: frostujo
• Estonian: külmuti
• Finnish: pakastin (fi)
• French: congélateur (fr), congélo (fr) m (colloquial)
• Georgian: საყინულე (saq̇inule)
• German: Gefrierschrank (de) m, Gefriertruhe (de) f, Tiefkühlschrank (de) m
• Hebrew: מַקְפִּיא (he) m (makpí)
• Icelandic: frystir (is) m
• Ido: konjelilo
• Italian: freezer (it) m, congelatore (it) m, surgelatore (it) m
• Japanese: フリーザー (ja) (furīzā), 冷凍庫 (ja) (れいとうこ, reitōko)
• Kazakh: мұздатқыш (kk) (mūzdatqyş)
• Khmer: ទូបង្កក (tuu bɑngkɑɑk)
• Korean: 냉동고(冷凍庫) (ko) (naengdonggo), 랭동고(冷凍庫) (raengdonggo) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: тоңдургуч (toŋdurguc)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: šaldiklis m
• Macedonian: замрзнувач m (zamrznuvač)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: friża
• Maori: pākatio
• Marathi: फ्रीजर m (phrījar)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хөлдөөгч (mn) (xöldöögč)

  Mongolian: ᠬᠥᠯᠳᠡᠭᠡᠭᠴᠢ (köldegeɣči)

• Norman: congélateur m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dypfryser m

• Polish: zamrażarka (pl)
• Portuguese: congelador (pt) m, freezer (pt) m
• Romanian: frigorifice
• Russian: морози́льник (ru) m (morozílʹnik), морози́лка (ru) f (morozílka)
• Scottish Gaelic: reothadair m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: замрзѝва̄ч m

  Roman: zamrzìvāč (sh) m

• Slovak: mraznička f, mrazák m
• Slovene: zmrzovalnik m
• Spanish: congelador (es) m
• Sranan Tongo: ijskasi
• Swedish: frys (sv) c, frysskåp (sv) n
• Thai: ตู้แช่
• Tibetan: ཁྱགས་བཟོའི་གློག་སྒམ (khyags bzo'i glog sgam)
• Turkish: buzluk (tr), dondurucu (tr)
• Ukrainian: морози́лка f (morozýlka)
• Uzbek: muzlatgich
• Vietnamese: máy ướp lạnh, máy làm kem
• Walloon: edjaloe (wa) m
• Welsh: rhewgell (cy) f, cwpwrdd rhew m

room

• Bulgarian: хлади́лник (bg) m (hladílnik)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冷凍室 / 冷冻室 (zh) (lěngdòngshì)

• Finnish: pakastehuone
• German: Gefrierraum m
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хөлдөөгч камер (xöldöögč kamer)

• Russian: холоди́льник (ru) m (xolodílʹnik)
• Spanish: cámara frigorífica f
• Thai: ห้องเย็น

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English freezer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁi.zœʁ/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: friseur

Noun

freezer m (plural freezers)

1. freezer compartment

Further reading

• “freezer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• referez, référez

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English freezer.

Noun

freezer m (invariable)

1. freezer

   Synonyms: congelatore, surgelatore

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English freezer.

Noun

freezer m (plural freezers)

1. Alternative spelling of frízer