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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deep freeze
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The surprise deep freeze brought temperatures of -20°.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I've been a life insurance salesman and I was in the deep freeze business for ages.
▪ Odd skimmer and some roach fron Warrington water to ice breakers before the deep freeze.
▪ Opening the deep freeze is like standing on stage at the Palladium: there are that many eyes staring out at you.
▪ So far, winter has kept most parts of the country in the deep freeze.
▪ The deep freeze caught those that distribute gas to homes and offices by surprise.
▪ The new year saw the first signs of a thaw in that deep freeze.
Wiktionary
deep freeze

alt. a freezer n. a freezer

WordNet
deep freeze

n. temporary inactivity or suspension; "the legislation has now been revived after ten years in the deep freeze"

deep freeze

v. store in a deep-freeze, as for conservation; "deep-freeze the food"

Wikipedia
Deep Freeze

Deep Freeze may refer to:

  • 'Deep freeze' proprietary name for Racemic menthol cooling gel for non-prescription medicinal use such as sports injuries.
  • 'Deep freezer' or chest freezer, a stand-alone freezer unit for preserving food in contrast to a freezer atop a refrigerator
  • Deep or Big Freeze, a purported cooling effect of the expanding universe
  • Operation Deep Freeze, a series of American expeditions to Antarctica beginning in 1955
  • Deep Freeze Range, a mountain range in Antarctica
  • Deep Freeze (software), a protective program
  • "Deep Freeze", a song from the album Urban Hymns by The Verve
  • Deep Freeze (film), a 2003 horror film
  • "Deep Freeze", an episode of CSI: Miami
  • " The Deep Freeze", an episode of the animated television series Xiaolin Showdown
  • "Deep Freeze" (Batman: The Animated Series), a 1994 television show episode
Deep Freeze (software)

Deep Freeze, by Faronics, is an application available for the Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X operating systems which allows system administrators to protect the core operating system and configuration files on a workstation or server by restoring a computer back to its original configuration each time the computer restarts.

Deep Freeze (film)

Deep Freeze (also known as Ice Crawlers) is a 2003 horror film directed by John Carl Buechler. Written by Robert Boris, Dennis A. Pratt, and Matthew Jason Walsh, the film was shot in Germany in 2001. The film was retitled Ice Crawlers for United States release.

Usage examples of "deep freeze".

Muir was his usual somnolent self, his eyes half-closed as if he were on the verge of dropping off to sleep: Mayor Morrison, who had won so many medals in the Second World War that he could scarcely have found room for them even on his massive chest, was just plain furious: and so, indisputably, was the President: that expression of kindly tolerance and compassionate wisdom which 'had endeared him to the hearts of millions 'had for the moment been tucked away in the deep freeze.

Ballard dropped Liz at the hospital and went on to Deep Freeze Headquarters.

Her life had gone into deep freeze twelve years ago, and she had never expected it to change.

There are fewer than half a dozen corpses currently in the deep freeze, although there are some hundreds of thousands of persons who would be, except that they haven’.

Mastodons were found preserved by ice in Siberia, the food undigested in their stomach, establishing the fact that they died quite suddenly, almost as if sent into an instant deep freeze.

I threw a deep freeze spell at Jurt, but he trumped out before the cold front hit.

So she had, say, thirty hours at the outside, and then the cabin would slowly go into a deep freeze, where no human could possibly survive.

Now the interrogator proceeded to draw out of him all the details of his life since he had come out of the deep freeze in Siwaki.