Crossword clues for refrigerate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Refrigerate \Re*frig"er*ate\ (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refrigerated (-[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Refrigerating.] [L. refrigeratus, p. p. of refrigerare; pref. re- re- + frigerare to make cool, fr. frigus, frigoris, coolness. See Frigid.] To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, back-formation from refrigeration, or else from Latin refrigeratus, past participle of refrigerare "make cool or cold." Related: Refrigerated; refrigerating. Earlier words in the same sense of "to make cold, to cool" were infrigiden, infrigidate (both early 15c.).
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive obsolete in general sense English) To cool down, make cool. 2 (context transitive English) Now specifically, to keep cool by containing within a refrigerator.
WordNet
v. preserve by chilling; "many foods must be refrigerated or else they will spoil"
cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator; "refrigerate this medicine"
Usage examples of "refrigerate".
She stared at the portable lab and X-ray machine, their related processors, and the latest in alloplastic and autogenous grafting materials in refrigerated cases.
Sunday morning, a data-entry technician named Primrose Hobbs removed fragmented human tissue bearing morgue number 387 from a refrigerated trailer containing cases in process.
Chinese-style organic tofu is readily available in vacuum-packed one-pound blocks in refrigerated tubs.
All, he noticed, appeared smaller than the white behemoth he drank from that first night, but like the Charolais bull, the black steer he finally approached yielded to him, and he fed, wishing he had some way to refrigerate his thermos so he could bring it along and fill it up.
You may immediately roll out both crusts, or wrap each disk in plastic and refrigerate for 15 to 30 minutesif this is more convenient or if the kitchen is very warm or if you have used lard and butter as your shortening.
At another room he spun a chrome wheel to retract the lockset and swung open a thick door and felt the chill from the refrigerated chamber.
The details read: SS Vidor, registered in Panama, owned by Monro Refrigerated Transport.
They had to unpack things from refrigerated boxes so that the viewers could imagine them turning up in simple kitchens anywhere in Ireland and producing this gourmet meal.
Whitehead: computers and lab animals and expensive equipment and refrigerated cultures and unrefrigerated cultures and notebooks and enough glassware to water Ethiopia.
There was a brief conversation in which the consultant set out the sample requirements for the CDCspecifying that stool samples should be taken without the use of enema, and should be kept refrigerated but not frozenand informed Lee as to where he could obtain the CDC trivalent botulin antitoxin, stocks of which were kept at or near regional airports and Public Health Service Quarantine Stations all over the U.
Clamped to its docking end, layer upon layer of radiation-absorbent material fanned out in a dark sheath, refrigerated down to cosmic background temperature.
The pretentious audio tour described a refrigerated bust made out of the artist's own blood - which was not even sculpted, just poured into a cast - as a statement about life itself.
Sometimes hed start with a twist of wire, a few batteries, and a button hook, and before he finished, he might contrive a new type of refrigerating unit.
Sometimes he'd start with a twist of wire, a few batteries, and a button hook, and before he finished, he might contrive a new type of refrigerating unit.
They're all very straightforward - pumps, refrigerating systems, heat exchangers, cranes - good old-fashioned Second Millennium technology!