freezer

name

1. A rare surname.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English freeze Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzijos Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English freezer From freeze + -er.

1. An appliance or room used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).

   “The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp.”

   “It’s easy to grab plastic-wrapped daifuku at Japanese grocery stores in New York, and to spot boxes of mochi ice cream in supermarket freezer aisles.”

2. The section of a refrigerator used to store food or other perishable items at a temperature below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).

   “Holonyms: fridge, fridge-freezer, refrigerator, refrigerator-freezer”

3. A Parkinson's disease patient that experiences freezing of gait (FOG) episodes.
4. A hardware device that can freeze the state of the system to allow it to be inspected, saved or modified.

   “[…] "freezer" cartridges (such as the Action Replay), as a convenient way to take control […]”

   “The execution of the program was suspended with a special hardware expansion, the freezer, and the contents of the memory were saved to disk.”