freezer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

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

2. 2
   noun

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

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

3. 3
   noun

   A hardware device that can freeze the state of the system to allow it to be inspected, saved or modified.

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

4. 4
   noun

   electric refrigerator (trade name Deepfreeze) in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time

5. 5
   noun

   A Parkinson's disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes.

6. 6
   name

   A rare surname.

Etymology

From freeze + -er.