refrigerator

plural refrigerators

1. A household or commercial appliance used for keeping food fresh using refrigeration.

   Meronyms: condenser, crisper, door, evaporator, meat keeper

   2 more examples

   Jo uttered a groan and fell back in her chair, remembering that she had given a last hasty powdering to the berries out of one of the two boxes on the kitchen table, and had neglected to put the milk in the refrigerator.

   1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, ch. 11

   An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.

   2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly)

   Synonyms: fridge, icebox

2. A similar device used to keep non-food items cold, such as blood, photographic film, drugs, or pharmaceuticals like insulin.

   Meronym: condenser

3. One who has a chilling influence.

   […] in a state of sublime satisfaction, he moves among the company, a magnificent refrigerator.

   1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC