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# freezer

«freezer» in Mova's school dictionary: **a very cold cupboard or box that freezes food to keep it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a freezer, freezers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A freezer is a very cold cupboard or box that freezes food to keep it fresh for a long time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezer/#m1)

2) A freezer can be part of a fridge (the top or bottom part) or a separate machine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezer/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and science, a freezer keeps food at about −18 °C (0 °F), well below the freezing point of water (0 °C, 32 °F), so ice lollies, ice cubes and frozen peas stay frozen. In safety lessons, children never play or hide inside a chest freezer or old fridge, because the door can shut and trap them. Frozen meat should thaw in the fridge. Phrases: in the freezer, chest freezer, freezer bag, fridge-freezer.

### examples

- Put the ice cream back in the freezer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezer/#x1)
- We keep frozen peas in the freezer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezer/#x2)
- Fill the tray with water and put it in the freezer to make ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezer/#x3)
- Never climb into a freezer; the door can lock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezer/#x4)
- The freezer is colder than the fridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezer/#x5)
- Mum took the chicken out of the freezer to defrost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezer/#x6)
- Don't touch frosty metal in the freezer with wet fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezer/#x7)
- The freezer is full of ice lollies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezer/#x8)

### note

Countable: a freezer, freezers. Fridge = cold (keeps food a few days); freezer = colder (freezes food for months). Spelled with -zer. Water in the freezer expands as it turns to ice, which is why bottles can crack.

### In the corpora

- [Water is strange: it grows bigger when it freezes, which is why ice floats and a full bottle cracks in the freezer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/5-melting-freezing-boiling-condensing/4/)
- [A freezer stops germs growing almost completely but does not kill most of them, so defrosted meat must still be cooked properly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/14/)
- [A glow stick in the freezer glows more dimly but lasts longer, because cold slows the reaction down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/26-colours-of-fire-fireworks/17/)
- [Liquid expands when it freezes, so a can left in the freezer can burst.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/108-laundry-freezer-and-electricity/9/)
- [Liquid expands when it freezes, so a can or glass bottle left in the freezer can burst.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/294-kitchen-freezer-plugs-and-balconies/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «freezer» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/freezer/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.