deep freezer
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Definition
- Noun:
- A large electric refrigerator designed specifically for freezing food quickly and storing it at very low temperatures for extended periods: A "deep freezer" is a standalone appliance, typically a chest or upright freezer, that maintains temperatures well below the freezing point of water to preserve food for months or years.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- We store our garden vegetables and bulk meat purchases in the deep freezer.
- Make sure you label and date everything you put in the deep freezer.
- The power outage lasted three days, and we lost all the food in our deep freezer.
Advanced Usage
- "stand-alone deep freezer": Often used to distinguish a dedicated freezer unit from a refrigerator's smaller freezer compartment.
- For serious food preservation, a stand-alone deep freezer is more efficient than a refrigerator-freezer combo.
Variants and Related Words
- Freezer (n): A more general term for any appliance or compartment that freezes food. A "deep freezer" is a type of freezer.
- Chest freezer (n): A common type of deep freezer that opens from the top.
- Upright freezer (n): A common type of deep freezer that opens from the front, like a refrigerator.
- Deepfreeze (n): A trademarked brand name (Deepfreeze) that has become a generic term for a deep freezer.
Synonyms
- Freezer: The most common direct synonym.
- Deep freeze: An alternative phrasing with the same meaning.
Related Phrases
- To put something on deep freeze: An idiomatic expression meaning to postpone or suspend an activity or project indefinitely.
- The construction project has been put on deep freeze due to budget cuts. (Note: This idiom uses the concept of freezing but is not a direct description of the appliance).
Noun
- electric refrigerator (trade name Deepfreeze) in which food is frozen and stored for long periods of time