freezerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈfɹiːzə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈfɹizɚ/
• 韻: -iːzə(ɹ)

名詞

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, →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:

     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.

派生語

派生した語

• → Macanese: friza