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单词 icebox
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Definition of icebox in English:

icebox

noun ˈʌɪsbɒksˈaɪsˌbɑks
  • 1A chilled box or cupboard for keeping something cold, especially food.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Beryl spit out a mouthful of kibble and hid behind the antique icebox that never had any ice.
    • In my nightmares, I hid in an icebox, but they found me anyway.
    • A good skipper will have a plentiful supply of bottled water in the icebox, but it is as well to check before leaving port that he had laid in enough to last the day.
    • The cupboards all matched, unlike Toni and Carina's mismatched, random cupboards and iceboxes.
    • The icebox only consisted of a wooden box with ice surrounding it.
    • I praised his courage, because it's not easy to carry the heavy icebox up to the top of mountain.
    • Griffith ignored him and opened one of the iceboxes at the corner of the tiny kitchen.
    • ‘He's against it,’ replied Coolidge coolly as he reached in the icebox for a beer.
    • Reaching down, he opened an icebox, and then brought up a slab of meat.
    • Against the back of this room was a cupboard for storage, a stove, and an icebox.
    • She looked around the small kitchen before she opened the cabinets and the icebox and saw that they were empty.
    • What did you think I was practicing for, when Dad needs extra ice for the icebox?
    • The icebox is a 54-quart portable cooler that fits beneath the companionway steps.
    • Nobody is kicking down your door, confiscating your icebox and saying you can't drink into the wee hours.
    • I'm already thirsty for another frosty cool one from Hardway's icebox.
    • Evil slams down the piano, and grabs the icebox.
    • She then offered to help him carry the icebox where the fishes were.
    1. 1.1British A compartment in a refrigerator for making and storing ice.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Marcia poured her diet coke into a glass and she pulled the icebox out of the small refrigerator and put a few in.
      • He stood beside the fridge with the icebox in his hand, looking a little dumb.
      • Have been inspired by the immensely satisfying experiencing of defrosting the icebox on Sunday.
      • Store your vermouth in the icebox so that it is always cold.
      • Rufie actually made one of her famous icebox cakes in honour of my arrival.
    2. 1.2US dated A refrigerator.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • May, could you please get some eggs out of the icebox?
      • People might have had iceboxes, but the very first home ‘fridges’ were not invented until 1913 and not mass-produced until 1939.
      • How about a refrigerator that goes back to the old icebox concept and stores coolness in a block of frozen material during certain hours?
      • But in other parts of the world, consumers with small iceboxes chug their milk from a rectangular drink box kept in the pantry.
      • While the pie was baking, she removed some vegetables and meat from the icebox to prepare for dinner.
 
 

Definition of icebox in US English:

icebox

nounˈīsˌbäksˈaɪsˌbɑks
  • 1A chilled box or cupboard for keeping something cold, especially food.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A good skipper will have a plentiful supply of bottled water in the icebox, but it is as well to check before leaving port that he had laid in enough to last the day.
    • Nobody is kicking down your door, confiscating your icebox and saying you can't drink into the wee hours.
    • I'm already thirsty for another frosty cool one from Hardway's icebox.
    • I praised his courage, because it's not easy to carry the heavy icebox up to the top of mountain.
    • Beryl spit out a mouthful of kibble and hid behind the antique icebox that never had any ice.
    • ‘He's against it,’ replied Coolidge coolly as he reached in the icebox for a beer.
    • She then offered to help him carry the icebox where the fishes were.
    • What did you think I was practicing for, when Dad needs extra ice for the icebox?
    • The cupboards all matched, unlike Toni and Carina's mismatched, random cupboards and iceboxes.
    • She looked around the small kitchen before she opened the cabinets and the icebox and saw that they were empty.
    • Griffith ignored him and opened one of the iceboxes at the corner of the tiny kitchen.
    • In my nightmares, I hid in an icebox, but they found me anyway.
    • Evil slams down the piano, and grabs the icebox.
    • The icebox is a 54-quart portable cooler that fits beneath the companionway steps.
    • Reaching down, he opened an icebox, and then brought up a slab of meat.
    • Against the back of this room was a cupboard for storage, a stove, and an icebox.
    • The icebox only consisted of a wooden box with ice surrounding it.
    1. 1.1US dated A refrigerator.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • While the pie was baking, she removed some vegetables and meat from the icebox to prepare for dinner.
      • May, could you please get some eggs out of the icebox?
      • People might have had iceboxes, but the very first home ‘fridges’ were not invented until 1913 and not mass-produced until 1939.
      • But in other parts of the world, consumers with small iceboxes chug their milk from a rectangular drink box kept in the pantry.
      • How about a refrigerator that goes back to the old icebox concept and stores coolness in a block of frozen material during certain hours?
 
 
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