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noun

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

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

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Origin:
1605–15; refrigerate + -or²

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I'M going to tell you the tale of my refrigerator breakdown and recovery.

Cleaning the office refrigerator is not usually in anyone's job description, so it isn't always done in a timely manner.

Too our even bigger surprise, she had a hidden refrigerator connected via a long extension cord to a basic generator.

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I'M going to tell you the tale of my refrigerator breakdown and recovery.

Cleaning the office refrigerator is not usually in anyone's job description, so it isn't always done in a timely manner.

Too our even bigger surprise, she had a hidden refrigerator connected via a long extension cord to a basic generator.

The refrigerator is the largest power-guzzler in the typical household.

Yet the sound it radiates into the sea is little more than the hum of a kitchen refrigerator.

They look as if they've been moldering away under a refrigerator somewhere.

Healthy fruit keep well in containers in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.

They taped down the button on the refrigerator door frame to keep the light from turning on.

IT is not often one finds a walk-in refrigerator in a private home.

We have already discussed how raiding the community refrigerator and stealing our colleagues' food is not a collegial thing to do.

Likewise, the refrigerator could one day know when the beer supply is running low and re-order automatically.

If you want to cut back on your household's energy consumption, your refrigerator is one of the best places to start.

Use the refrigerator or microwave rather than hot water to thaw frozen food.

Other herbs can be dried on paper towels in the refrigerator.

Once opened, preserved chutneys keep for months if stored airtight in the refrigerator.

If you are drinking red in hot weather, put it in the refrigerator for half an hour before opening.

The refrigerator could generate a list and place an order with an online grocer.

Ener pumped her breasts and stored the milk in a refrigerator for the next feeding.

There used to be only two sorts of refrigerator on sale, made by the same manufacturer and to the same specifications.

Check out the greenhouse gas profile of your refrigerator and how you can trim some of those pounds.

The refrigerator hums in the corner of the kitchen, and the heat coming out of a duct over your head whooshes softly.

Susan had a bar-sized refrigerator that masqueraded, under a tablecloth, as a storage box.

All keep up to one year in the refrigerator after opening.

There's even a waste recovery system on the walk-in refrigerator that heats the water in the master bedroom's jacuzzi.

Ideally, this space would be a relatively quiet spot off the beaten path, away from the faculty refrigerator or coffee maker.

It was the size of a refrigerator and it literally weighed a ton.

When the glue cools, the refrigerator magnet is ready to use.

Baking soda does a marvelous job of oven cleaning and refrigerator cleaning with a bit of elbow grease.

One night, one of the roughnecks asked my night baker if he could put a loosely covered can in the walk-in refrigerator.

Here's an easy refrigerator jam recipe that's perfect for first-time jam-makers.

Here's how to make my grandma's refrigerator pickle recipe.

The only electricity he used was for lights and refrigerator.

Independent thought, the rise of the meritocracy, an automobile and a refrigerator in every home.

These real-to-life magnets are great for arranging on the refrigerator.

It wasn't too hard to come up with a spoof based on kids' refrigerator drawings.

The refrigerator held the sharp tang of the pitcher of iron-rich well water cooling there.

Once opened, store airtight in the refrigerator for weeks.

So once you fold it up, you can stick it right on your refrigerator.

Throw in some refrigerator biscuits and you have a meal.

And yes the screen and the refrigerator is see through.

Turn off the refrigerator if your absence will be longer than one month.

If it's for the better, if they end up putting buying lots of fresh fruit and put them on the middle shelf of the refrigerator.

Tomatillos can be stored in the refrigerator up to a month.

Then it is a matter of fairness as family where everyone eats as long as there is food in the refrigerator.

Once cool, but still liquid, pour over second layer and chill in refrigerator.

She pulled ingredients from her refrigerator and created this spicy steak with a refreshing hint of orange.

Her parents, in their sixties, live in a spacious two-storey house with a refrigerator and colour television.

Small satellites range from softball size to refrigerator size.

The mixture will keep in the refrigerator over a month.

Composing poems on one's refrigerator door, or on the wall of one's prison cell, may bring comfort.

Before shopping at the market, see what's in your refrigerator and cupboard.

In mild-winter areas, chill bulbs in the refrigerator for six weeks before planting.

It was either that or reside in tonsorial elegance with my wife in a refrigerator crate under one of our local bridges.

Thaw frozen seafood in the refrigerator overnight, placing it in a dish to catch any water that melts off.

If it becomes sticky as you work, return it to the refrigerator to firm up again.

The device maintains this temperature with a commercially available, low-temperature refrigerator known as a cryocooler.

Once opened, verjus keeps one to two weeks in the refrigerator.

To help your child follow this process, work with him to make a guide sheet to put on the refrigerator.

Our beer kept well in the refrigerator for months, but the fizz and flavor were at their peak right after bottling.

Clean the crisper drawers in your refrigerator of produce no longer suitable for eating.

For example, remove everything you need from the refrigerator for cooking once and put it back once.

Imagine if you couldn't turn on a light or open the refrigerator.

Store drinking water in the refrigerator instead of letting a faucet run while waiting for the water to get cold.

Only on a shoot, where quiet is key, can you appreciate the outrageous volume of a refrigerator motor.

Look for stickers on the fruit and vegetables at the grocery store or in your refrigerator.

Opening the refrigerator the morning after a big shopping trip only to find that your.

Other good office gifts are a clock and a small refrigerator.

We're talking about a few refrigerator sized lumps instead of train car loads of material.

Never mind that facilitating such a modest act will require speeding refrigerator trucks, thermal.

The basic concept is lunacy with a long legacy extending back to female hysteria and refrigerator mothers.

Mouse droppings, food on refrigerator shelves, dust on fan.

They only attack the refrigerator on rare occasions.

We moved the old refrigerator to the garage, which became our temporary kitchen.

For instance, a tag in a milk carton could tell a computer-enabled refrigerator when its contents are running low.

The search for perfection began with a magnet on the refrigerator.

It even comes with a sticky back for permanent refrigerator mounting.

Serve at once, or chill in a covered bowl in the refrigerator.

He has a propane-powered range and refrigerator and a woodstove he heats and cooks with in winter.

Stir the mixture to mix and either serve immediately or chill in the refrigerator.

They are delicious when served at room temperature or cold from the refrigerator.

Team taped to the refrigerator was one of many many testaments to the team's awareness of the.

Slamming my refrigerator door never leaves me feeling guilty.

Cover moist food, so the refrigerator does not waste energy evaporating the moisture.

We're able to use our garage as sort of an extended refrigerator in the late fall, winter, and early spring months.

So every household owns a refrigerator specifically designed for kimchi only.

Serve immediately or store, wrapped in plastic, in refrigerator for up to four days.

Find out the age of your refrigerator and whether it might be due for replacement.

Only if the refrigerator had emotions as complex as ours.

Thaw overnight or over several hours in the refrigerator.

The door opens directly into a room with a conference table and an old refrigerator humming in the corner.

But the recent revival of craft brewing has opened the refrigerator door to a bevy of brews that can complement.

If you can't or don't want to buy dry aged, you can do a short dry-aging yourself in the refrigerator.

Remove from refrigerator and slowly whisk in lime juice.

The interior of my refrigerator is filled with an orange glow.

Nanomagnetic chips are made from material similar to refrigerator magnets, etched with rows of rectangles.

Put in the refrigerator for two days to drain completely.

Stock your kitchen pantry and refrigerator with healthy and organic foods.

The result: refrigerator trucks belching carbon dioxide.

Second, you can't put any of your offspring's awful, lame attempts at art on the front of the refrigerator.

You've never had a remote control for your refrigerator before, and maybe you didn't even know you wanted one.

Each thoughtful room also has a refrigerator in case parents choose to bring their own groceries.

That's where, by the way, you can find a story about how refrigerator magnets can be deadly.

The diving sphere–our cabin–was pretty tiny, about the size of a household refrigerator and the same temperature.

The refrigerator shriveled and bowing toward the earth.

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World English Dictionary

refrigerator (rɪˈfrɪdʒəˌreɪtə)

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

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Word Origin & History

refrigerator

"cabinet for keeping food cool," 1824, originally in the brewery trade, in place of earlier refrigeratory (c.1600). Agent noun from refrigerate (see refrigeration). The electric-powered household device was available from c.1918.

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"With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early childhood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet."

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