Word Meanings - REFRIGERATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which refrigerates or makes cold; that which keeps cool. Specifically: A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice. An apparatus for rapidly cooling heated liquids or vapors, connected with a still,

Additional info about word: REFRIGERATOR

That which refrigerates or makes cold; that which keeps cool. Specifically: A box or room for keeping food or other articles cool, usually by means of ice. An apparatus for rapidly cooling heated liquids or vapors, connected with a still, etc. Refrigerator car , a freight car constructed as a refrigerator, for the transportation of fresh meats, fish, etc., in a temperature kept cool by ice.

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• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• HEATHER
  Heath. Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell , one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather . (more info) Etym:
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• HEATHENISHNESS
  The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• COOL-HEADED
  Having a temper not easily excited; free from passion. -- Cool"-head`ed*ness, n.
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• HEATHENRY
  1. The state, quality, or character of the heathen. Your heathenry and your laziness. C. Kingsley. 2. Heathendom; heathen nations.
• STILLING
  A stillion.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• STILLAGE
  A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• STILLION
  A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
• HEATHY
  Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills. Sir W. Scott.
• COOLNESS
  1. The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness. 2. Calm impudence; self-possession.
• STILLROOM
  1. A room for distilling. 2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens.
• HEATHENISM
  1. The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism. 2. The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SAFE-KEEPING
  The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• PISTILLIFEROUS
  Pistillate.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• OUTKEEPER
  An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• FINESTILLER
  One who finestills.