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# fridge

«fridge» in Mova's school dictionary: **A cold cupboard in the kitchen that keeps food and drinks…** — 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 fridge, fridges — short for refrigerator)

### meaning for a pupil

A cold cupboard in the kitchen that keeps food and drinks cool and fresh, usually about 3–5 °C. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fridge/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and food safety: keep milk, meat, cheese and leftovers in the fridge so germs grow slowly; put raw meat on the bottom shelf; shut the door quickly to save energy; a freezer is much colder (about −18 °C). In science: cooling slows down how food goes off. Phrases: in the fridge, fridge door, fridge magnet, fridge-freezer, out of the fridge.

### examples

- Put the milk back in the fridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fridge/#x1)
- The fridge keeps food fresh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fridge/#x2)
- Close the fridge door, please. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fridge/#x3)
- Raw meat goes on the bottom shelf of the fridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fridge/#x4)
- My drawing is on the fridge with a magnet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fridge/#x5)
- Leftover pizza is in the fridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fridge/#x6)
- Butter is hard when it comes out of the fridge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fridge/#x7)
- Never play inside an old fridge — you could get trapped. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fridge/#x8)

### note

Countable: fridges. Short for «refrigerator» (US uses «refrigerator» or «fridge»). Spelling: «fridge» has a d, though «refrigerator» does not. The fridge is cool, not freezing; the freezer is below 0 °C.

### In the corpora

- [Knowing this helps you understand why a family's week is planned round a piece of paper on the fridge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/2-shifts-nights-and-other-ways-of-working/4/)
- [Mum pins a rota on the fridge: "Freya this Friday, Sam next Friday.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/55-favourite-films-and-series-spoilers-binge-watching-streaming-and-adverts/6/)
- [Milk left out on a warm table goes sour because bacteria multiply fast in warmth and make acid; the fridge slows them down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/63-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses/17/)
- [Then it goes into cartons and bottles and back into the cold, all the way to your fridge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/341-where-milk-comes-from-cow-to-carton-cheese-butter-and-yoghurt/5/)
- [Cold slows down bacteria, mould and chemical reactions, so food lasts longer in the fridge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/23-browning-apples-rotting-and-mould/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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