deep freezen.
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.
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