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refrigerator
English
Etymology
From refrigerate +? -or
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???f??d?????e?t?/
- (US) IPA(key): /???f??d?????e???/, /???f??d?????e???/
Noun
refrigerator (plural refrigerators)
- A household appliance used for keeping food fresh by refrigeration (short form fridge).
- A similar device used to keep non-food items cold, such as blood, photographic film, drugs, or pharmaceuticals like insulin.
- One who has a chilling influence.
- 1852-53, Charles Dickens, Bleak House
- […] in a state of sublime satisfaction, he moves among the company, a magnificent refrigerator.
- 1852-53, Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Synonyms
- chiller
- coolchest
- fridge, frigerator
- icebox
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
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Latin
Pronunciation
(Classical) IPA(key): /re.fri?.?e?ra?.tor/, [r?f?i?????ä?t??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re.fri.d??e?ra.tor/, [r?f?id???????t??r]
Verb
refr?ger?tor
- second/third-person singular future passive imperative of refr?ger?
Romanian
Etymology
From French réfrigérateur
Noun
refrigerator n (plural refrigeratoare)
- refrigerator
- Synonym: frigider
Declension
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electricity
English
Etymology
From electric +? -ity.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?i?lek?t??s?ti/, /??l?k?t??s?ti/, /??l?k?t??s?ti/
- (US) IPA(key): /??l?k?t??s?ti/, /i?l?k?t??s?ti/, /??l?k?t????s?ti/
- Rhymes: -?s?ti
Noun
electricity (usually uncountable, plural electricities)
- Originally, a property of amber and certain other nonconducting substances to attract lightweight material when rubbed, or the cause of this property; now understood to be a phenomenon caused by the distribution and movement of charged subatomic particles and their interaction with the electromagnetic field. [from 17th c.]
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica[1], 4th edition, p. 56:
- Again, the concretion of Ice will not endure a dry attrition without liquation?; for if it be rubbed long with a cloth, it melteth. But Cry?tal will calefie unto electricity?; that is, a power to attract ?traws or light bodies, and convert the needle freely placed.
- 1747 July 28, Benjamin Franklin, letter to Peter Collinson, collected in New Experiments and Observations on Electricity, part I, 3rd edition, London: D. Henry and R. Cape, published 1760, page 8:
- For, re?toring the equilibrium in the bottle does not at all affect the Electricity in the man thro’ whom the fire pa??es?; that Electricity is neither increa?ed nor dimini?hed.
- 2011, Jon Henley, The Guardian, 29 Mar 2011:
- How does it work, though? It's based on the observation made some 200 years ago that electricity can change the shape of flames.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica[1], 4th edition, p. 56:
- (physics) The study of electrical phenomena; the branch of science dealing with such phenomena. [from 18th c.]
- A feeling of excitement; a thrill. [from 18th c.]
- Electric power/energy as used in homes etc., supplied by power stations or generators. [from 19th c.]
- 2000, James Meek, Home-made answer to generating electricity harks back to the past, The Guardian:
- Householders could one day be producing as much electricity as all the country's nuclear power stations combined, thanks to the revolutionary application of a device developed in the early 19th century.
- 2000, James Meek, Home-made answer to generating electricity harks back to the past, The Guardian:
See also
- alternating current (AC)
- current
- energy
- power
- vacuum
- direct current (DC)
- vending machines
- earth
- electric current
- circuit
- electric circuit
Translations
See also
- electric
- electron
References
- Equivalent text in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 6th edition (1672), p. 53
- de V. Heathcote, Niels H. (December 1967) , “The early meaning of electricity: Some Pseudodoxia Epidemica - I”, in Annals of Science, volume 23, issue 4, DOI:10.1080/00033796700203316, ISSN 0003-3790, WD Q54266797, pages 261–275
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