deep freezen.

Etymology: < deep adj. + freeze n.¹

Originally U.S.

1. (Written Deepfreeze.) A type of refrigerator capable of rapid freezing. Hence, any refrigerator or process in which food can be quickly frozen and stored almost indefinitely at a very low temperature. Also attributive.A proprietary name in the United States.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by cooling or freezing > place or machine for

ice room1758

ice chamber1768

icebox1792

cool chamber1801

ice chest1826

freezer1847

refrigerator1861

chill-room1884

ice cave1884

cold store1895

cool store1906

Coolgardie?1924

fridge1926

Frigidaire1926

deep freeze1941

chest freezer1947

hydro-cooler1947

reefer1958

fridge-freezer1971

flash freezer1984

blast freezer1986

1941 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 8 July 260/2 Deepfreeze. For Refrigerating Apparatus and Parts Thereof.

1942 Science Illustr. Mar. 3/1 The Deepfreeze home locker looks like an up-ended white enameled barrel with an encased compressor housing at its side.

1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 218/1 ‘Polythene’..is particularly suitable for deep-freeze and quick-frozen foods.

1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 473/2 A refrigerator with a special deep-freeze compartment.

1957 W. H. Whyte Organization Man 250 The chickens are stacked high in the deep freeze.

1958 Sunday Times 27 Apr. 22/6 The housewife with a deep freeze can keep them for six months.

1969 News of World 23 Nov. 9/5 They paid a deposit on a deep-freeze but then heard nothing more.

2. transferred and figurative. ‘Cold storage’; suspension of activity; suspended animation. Also attributive.

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1949 L. C. Wroth in C. F. Bühler et al. Standards of Bibliogr. Description 114 Most historians won't bother. They are not interested in bibliography. For all that they may do about it, the meat will lie in the deep-freeze compartment until the end of time.

1950 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 8 Oct. 3/1 This can never be reprinted too often; it is a classic of deep-freeze.

1951 I. Shaw Troubled Air iv. 84 You must have led your life in deep freeze for the last twenty years.

1952 Birmingham (Alabama) News 6 May 26/3 A Swedish doctor has predicted that ‘deep freeze’ operations on human beings may not be far off. He said this is a technique in which heart action is purposely stopped by lowering the body temperature.

1957 Daily Mail 26 Sept. 9/5 The ‘deep-freeze’ girl who lay in a coma for 14 weeks.

1958 Spectator 6 June 722/1 It [sc. a suburb] is not alive either, of course; perhaps suspended animation is the best description, a kind of socio-economic deep freeze.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	deep freeze
释义	deep freezen. Etymology: < deep adj. + freeze n.¹ Originally U.S. 1. (Written Deepfreeze.) A type of refrigerator capable of rapid freezing. Hence, any refrigerator or process in which food can be quickly frozen and stored almost indefinitely at a very low temperature. Also attributive.A proprietary name in the United States. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > [noun] > preserving by cooling or freezing > place or machine for ice room1758 ice chamber1768 icebox1792 cool chamber1801 ice chest1826 freezer1847 refrigerator1861 chill-room1884 ice cave1884 cold store1895 cool store1906 Coolgardie?1924 fridge1926 Frigidaire1926 deep freeze1941 chest freezer1947 hydro-cooler1947 reefer1958 fridge-freezer1971 flash freezer1984 blast freezer1986 1941 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 8 July 260/2 Deepfreeze. For Refrigerating Apparatus and Parts Thereof. 1942 Science Illustr. Mar. 3/1 The Deepfreeze home locker looks like an up-ended white enameled barrel with an encased compressor housing at its side. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 218/1 ‘Polythene’..is particularly suitable for deep-freeze and quick-frozen foods. 1951 Good Housek. Home Encycl. 473/2 A refrigerator with a special deep-freeze compartment. 1957 W. H. Whyte Organization Man 250 The chickens are stacked high in the deep freeze. 1958 Sunday Times 27 Apr. 22/6 The housewife with a deep freeze can keep them for six months. 1969 News of World 23 Nov. 9/5 They paid a deposit on a deep-freeze but then heard nothing more. 2. transferred and figurative. ‘Cold storage’; suspension of activity; suspended animation. Also attributive. ΚΠ 1949 L. C. Wroth in C. F. Bühler et al. Standards of Bibliogr. Description 114 Most historians won't bother. They are not interested in bibliography. For all that they may do about it, the meat will lie in the deep-freeze compartment until the end of time. 1950 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 8 Oct. 3/1 This can never be reprinted too often; it is a classic of deep-freeze. 1951 I. Shaw Troubled Air iv. 84 You must have led your life in deep freeze for the last twenty years. 1952 Birmingham (Alabama) News 6 May 26/3 A Swedish doctor has predicted that ‘deep freeze’ operations on human beings may not be far off. He said this is a technique in which heart action is purposely stopped by lowering the body temperature. 1957 Daily Mail 26 Sept. 9/5 The ‘deep-freeze’ girl who lay in a coma for 14 weeks. 1958 Spectator 6 June 722/1 It [sc. a suburb] is not alive either, of course; perhaps suspended animation is the best description, a kind of socio-economic deep freeze. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1941
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