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# refrigerated

«refrigerated» in Mova's school dictionary: **kept cold in a fridge or a cold room so that food or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (refrigerated); past form of the verb refrigerate (refrigerate, refrigerates, refrigerated, refrigerating)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Refrigerated means kept cold in a fridge or a cold room so that food or medicine stays fresh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refrigerated/#m1)

2) A refrigerated lorry or truck has a cold box to carry food a long way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refrigerated/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and safety lessons it is about keeping food safe: milk, meat and some medicines must be refrigerated so that germs grow slowly. On labels: «Keep refrigerated», «Once opened, keep refrigerated». Phrases: «keep refrigerated», «refrigerated truck», «refrigerated section».

### examples

- Once opened, keep refrigerated and use within three days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refrigerated/#x1)
- The fish came in a refrigerated lorry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refrigerated/#x2)
- Some medicines must be refrigerated. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refrigerated/#x3)
- The refrigerated section of the supermarket is very cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refrigerated/#x4)
- The milk was refrigerated at 4 degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refrigerated/#x5)
- Refrigerated food stays fresh longer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refrigerated/#x6)
- The ice cream was taken from the refrigerated van. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refrigerated/#x7)

### note

«Refrigerator» is the long word for «fridge» (no d in refrigerator, but a d in «fridge»). Spelling: refrigerated has only one d. Cold does not kill germs; it only slows them down, so refrigerated food can still go off.

### Trees and pragmatics

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