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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fridge
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fridge magnet
the fridge/oven door
▪ Steam came out as I opened the oven door.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
door
▪ She dried her face and hands and then opened the fridge door.
▪ Even my highly regrettable tendency to react positively whenever the fridge door is opened was proof against that.
▪ The fridge door is often a central position.
▪ Victorine opened the fridge door and took out a fluted blue bowl clotted with white.
▪ Temptation still beckons - even when it's just you and the fridge door!
▪ I cringed as I opened the fridge door, I hated opening the fridge door.
■ VERB
keep
▪ It also freezes well, or it will keep in the fridge for a day or two.
▪ His Mum had about four flasks she kept on top of the fridge.
▪ Mop up any spillages and keep the fridge clean by using a germ killing product such as Domestos Multi Surface Cleaner.
▪ Always keep your fridge temperature below 5 ° C to prevent bacteria from multiplying.
▪ Remember to keep the fridge stocked with useful stores.
▪ Once the turkey is defrosted, remove the giblets, keep it in a fridge and cook within 24 hours.
open
▪ Mumbling a reply, Loretta opened the fridge and peered inside.
▪ And all this before we'd opened the fridge.
▪ Victorine opened the fridge door and took out a fluted blue bowl clotted with white.
▪ She opened the fridge and stared inside.
▪ We hear her open the fridge.
▪ I cringed as I opened the fridge door, I hated opening the fridge door.
put
▪ One is to wrap them in clingfilm and put them in the fridge until the next meal.
▪ She had put a small fridge in his room and she kept it well stocked with milk.
▪ I've brought a bottle with me and put it in the fridge.
▪ Cover the bowl and put it into the fridge for about 10 minutes, so that the gelatine just begins to set.
▪ You could put them in the fridge, but many like a fluctuating temperature which would be extremely hard to simulate!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Actually I am papering the fridge with rules; you can no longer tell its color.
▪ He walked into the brightly-lit kitchen, opened the fridge, took out a bottle of pure water and opened it.
▪ I had been saving up to buy a cooker and fridge and Brian's mum and dad gave us some of the furniture.
▪ One fillet tonight, the rest in the fridge.
▪ Spoon into a jar and store in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
▪ They have a better taste if not eaten straight away from the fridge.
▪ We have to expect more wastage, can't keep putting it in and out of the fridge, could poison somebody.
▪ You could put them in the fridge, but many like a fluctuating temperature which would be extremely hard to simulate!
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fridge

Fridge \Fridge\, v. t. [AS. frician to dance, from free bold. Cf. Freak, n.] To rub; to fray. [Obs.]
--Sterne.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fridge

shortened and altered form of refrigerator, 1926, an unusual way of word-formation in English; perhaps influenced by Frigidaire (1919), name of a popular early brand of self-contained automatically operated iceless refrigerator (Frigidaire Corporation, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.), a name suggesting Latin frigidarium "a cooling room in a bath." Frigerator as a colloquial shortening is attested by 1886.

Wiktionary
fridge

Etymology 1 vb. (context archaic English) To rub, chafe. Etymology 2

alt. A refrigerator. n. A refrigerator. vb. 1 To place inside of a refrigerator. 2 (label en fandom slang) To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove a female character from a narrative, often strictly to hurt a male character and provide him with a personal motivation for fighting the antagonist(s).

WordNet
fridge

n. a refrigerator in which the coolant is pumped around by an electric motor [syn: electric refrigerator]

Wikipedia
Fridge (disambiguation)

Fridge refers to refrigerator, an electrical appliance.

Fridge may also refer to:

  • Fridge (band), a British post rock band
  • The Fridge, a nightclub in Brixton, South London
  • Ralph Fridge, a trance music producer
  • Ralph Friedgen, University of Maryland football coach nicknamed "The Fridge"
  • William Perry (American football), former professional American football player nicknamed the "The Fridge"
Fridge (band)

Fridge are a UK post-rock band, comprising school friends Kieran Hebden, Adem Ilhan, and Sam Jeffers. Initially Hebden played guitar, Ilhan bass, and Jeffers drums, but Hebden and Ilhan soon adopted a variety of other instruments, and by 1999's Eph the sampler was playing an increasingly important role in the group's music. Hebden, Ilhan and Jeffers all attended Elliott School in Putney, which has become regarded as a hotbed for musical talent; other notable alumni including Hot Chip, Burial and The xx - all of which members of Fridge have worked with.

Hebden began a solo career in the late 1990s under the name Four Tet while the other two members attended college. Ilhan has also released three solo albums, Homesongs (2004), Love and Other Planets (2006), and Takes (2008) under the name Adem. The band's fifth album (and first in six years), The Sun, was released in June 2007.

The three musicians have also worked on occasion as the backing band for Badly Drawn Boy, and remixed his single Another Pearl.

Fridge also played their first public gig in six years, at Bardens Boudoir in Dalston, London on 9 August 2007. They followed this up with a performance at the 2007 Field Day festival in Victoria Park, London.

Fridge (advertisement)

Fridge is a 2006 television and print advertising campaign launched by Diageo to promote canned Guinness-brand stout in the United Kingdom. The campaign was handled by advertising agency Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO. The television piece was directed by J J Keith, and shot in the Czech Republic. The television ad is a thirty-second comedic spot aimed at men in their twenties and thirties, revolving around the idea of a miniature bartender who lives in a refrigerator, serving drinks to purchasers of cans of Guinness stout. The idea behind the ad was to promote the cans as being just as high quality as Guinness draught beer, which was traditionally the focus of Guinness advertising and marketing.

The ad is the sixth in the " Good things come to those who wait" campaign, following on from the hugely successful noitulovE campaign in 2005. The fish behind the bar is a nod to another previous campaign ( Fish Bicycle). It was followed itself by Hands later in 2006.

Usage examples of "fridge".

Irritably, Colette put the trout in the fridge, cleaned the fennel, made vinaigrette for the avocados, and decided to eat the apricots as they were, without bothering to make tart crust.

I turned the oven on, took a tray of canapes from the fridge, and carried it into the dining room.

I burrowed in the fridge for more salad, and, seeing the last of the ciabatta disappear into Greg, microwaved a frozen baguette.

American housewives used the food department of these hypermarkets to buy all that was necessary for their families for a week, since most of it would keep fresh in fridges or freezers.

Instead, still bent into the fridge, Lucern lifted the blood bag to his mouth and stabbed his fangs into it.

The cord and transformer went down the oubliette, along with most of the perished items from the fridge.

I dumped the stuff down the oubliette and took new ingredients from the fridge.

Kirk had none other than chicken tikka masala tucked away in the take-out bag in his fridge, I could have cared less if he and that laptop of his disappeared into the sunset together.

The twins had unpacked all the desserts Cathy had left in the fridge and eaten them for breakfast.

Salima unpacked her groceries, storing yogurt in the tiny fridge and stocking the miniscule pantry with chickpeas, rice, and flat bread.

I put the bowl with mangoes, apples, vinegar, sugar, onion, garlic, salt, pepper, cinnamon, ginger, raisins, allspice, carrots and cloves into the fridge, to let it all sit, and soak and mingle and swell with misery.

I began unloading the groceries onto the counter, handing things to Bucky to put in the fridge.

Marietta, Georgia Platt sat in the kitchen of his house, the house that had belonged to his mother before she died, his laptop computer on the wooden table next to the fridge.

Frenesi got out a couple of frozen, or with the state the fridge was in actually semithawed, peperoni pizzas, put the oven on to preheat, and made a fast salad while Flash opened beers and read off the names.

Everything that was on an open shelf or countertop had to be stowed and secured, a rubber band snapped around the roll of toilet paper, the water heater turned off, food in the fridge and cupboards cushioned against breakage, rugs rolled and furniture moved to pull in the living area and wardrobe slide-outs, awning stowed, and all the carefully reconnected propane appliances disconnected again.