What's the difference between fridge and refrigerator?

Fridge


Definition:

  • (n.) To rub; to fray.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The three-year-old comes into the kitchen for a drink, and as Steve opens the fridge, I can see it contains nothing apart from a half-full bottle of milk.
  • (2) It was also chided for failing to roll out a 2011 pilot scheme to put doors on fridges in its stores.
  • (3) Just drink it straight away, rather than storing it in the fridge, and bear in mind "they're not as good at juicing leafy greens, so you'll need to juice more to get the same volume."
  • (4) The same strains were isolated from the baby warmer mattress, baby cot, suction machine bottle and wall of the fridge.
  • (5) He said: "A frothy pint of ale and a Snickers from the fridge."
  • (6) As for after emergency treatment, volunteers will help patients return home safely and make sure there is food in the fridge – relieving pressure on social care.
  • (7) It's the television equivalent of asking your son to draw you a picture and then pinning it to the back of the fridge because, secretly, you hate him.
  • (8) But there will probably always be a rump that waves away terms like "human dignity" as so much leftwing blarney; who think foreigners are fundamentally different and are worth less, who think it's important to clean behind fridges, and furthermore, that women should be doing it; who think if they're ever caught out they can call it a joke, and that their joke will be hilarious.
  • (9) Inside, they are fitted with modern specifications such as air conditioning, orthopaedic seats and even CD players, fridges and televisions if customers request them.
  • (10) We actually bought it off Gumtree ourselves.” What drew the former prime minister to this particular fridge?
  • (11) He talks about the people he and his regular writer Paul Laverty met while doing their research: the young lad with nothing in his fridge who hadn’t eaten properly for three days; the woman ashamed of attending food banks; the man told to queue for a casual shift at 5.30am, then sent home an hour later because he wasn’t needed.
  • (12) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
  • (13) Split or cracked door seals can allow warm air into your fridge and increase your electricity costs.
  • (14) A survey by Renaissance Capital found that nearly half of the country's middle class (defined as an average monthly income of $500-$600) were planning to buy fridges, freezers and other white goods, "suggesting a consumer boom is under way".
  • (15) Photograph: John Brunton The name of this quite magical locale is "osteria without a host", and it totally lives up to its name, with no one behind the bar, and customers trusted to serve themselves prosecco from the fridge, along with cheese, hams, boiled eggs and bread.
  • (16) Every fridge in the country has a bottle of milk in it,” says Nick Snelgar, a smallholder who has recently set up a micro-dairy in Salisbury.
  • (17) The indoor venue was a cross between a hamburger-smelling circus tent and a fridge.
  • (18) Fridges and freezers moved out of the flooded shop were now floating around, he added.
  • (19) As the months have passed, I've tailored my fridge with experimentation.
  • (20) Asked whether he would ever be prime minister,he said: "Of course not," adding: "The chance[s] of me being prime minister are about as big as the chances of me being locked in a disused fridge interred in a … what is it?"

Refrigerator


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
  • (2) Cat corneas were stored at refrigerator temperatures in M-K medium (TC-199, 5% dextran), modified M-K medium (TC-199, 1% chondroitin sulfate), or on the intact globe in moist chambers for intervals of one to nine days.
  • (3) The brewery kept winning trophies at the Australian International Beer Awards year in, year out, yet its head brewer refused to send beer east until he could guarantee refrigerated transport.
  • (4) With few exceptions, there is no alteration in cellular morphology if the brain is refrigerated after death, and fixed by immersion within 3 hours.
  • (5) The results suggest that shipment and long-term storage of freeze-dried foot-and-mouth disease virus antigens is possible for use in the ELISA in the absence of refrigeration.
  • (6) Annual savings in tonnes of CO 2 Install 2 kilowatt solar PV panels 0.4 Buy a new A++ refrigerator if yours is more than 4 years old, and only use a small-screen TV 0.1 Use LED or fluorescent lights where you currently have halogen lights installed 0.1 Buy an automated system to turn off appliances when not in use; get a meter that shows actual energy use and use it to monitor your household 0.1 Only use your washing machine and dishwasher when full to capacity and at lowest temperature 0.1 Never use the tumble dryer 0.1 Get rid of the freezer if you can, and replace your small appliances with "eco" varieties 0.1 Car (1.5 tonnes of CO 2 ) There is one car for every two people in the UK, and each one travels an average of about 9,000 miles a year.
  • (7) Fluorescent pseudomonads were shown to constitute a second group of predominant pseudomonads constituting up to 19.3% of the total population after 8 days of refrigerated storage.
  • (8) Fish skin gelatin showed much better blocking activity than hydrolyzed porcine gelatin, and it still had the practical advantage of remaining fluid even under refrigeration.
  • (9) Samples stored at frozen (-20 degrees C) or refrigerated (4 degrees C) temperature retained at least 90% of the initial ampicillin concentration throughout the 47-day study period.
  • (10) Refrigerate for at least four hours until the pudding feels firm to the touch.
  • (11) Samples were taken after 0.8 and 24 hours, whereas half of these last two analyses were carried out in material left at room temperature, and the other half in refrigerated diets.
  • (12) Therefore, the results indicate that refrigerated parenteral nutrition bags can be administered directly to the patient without waiting for the mixture to warm up, anytime the length of the infusion system is over 145 cm.
  • (13) A gradual decrease in the number of viable L. monocytogenes cells was observed in juice and sauce held at 21 degrees C. In contrast, the organism died rapidly when suspended in commercial tomato ketchup at 5 and 21 degrees C. Unlike low-acid raw salad vegetables such as lettuce, broccoli, asparagus, and cauliflower on which we have observed L. monocytogenes grow at refrigeration temperatures, tomatoes are not a good growth substrate for the organism.
  • (14) Twenty-six (33%) of 79 refrigerators with foods that grew L monocytogenes contained at least one food isolate of the same strain as that in the corresponding patient, a frequency much higher than would be expected by chance (P less than .001).
  • (15) Fetal mesencephalic tissue was grafted into the lateral ventricle following pregraft refrigeration in calcium-free magnesium-free buffer at 4 degrees C. Fetal mesencephalic tissue was hibernated for 5, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32 hours (group A, B, C, D, E, F and G, respectively).
  • (16) Updated at 6.49pm BST 10.36am BST Shaun Walker reports from Torez that the victims' bodies are being brought to three railway cars, apparently with refrigerator capability, which are standing at the train station in the town of Torez, several miles from the crash site.
  • (17) Delays in the postmortem enucleation and refrigeration of potential donor corneas was shown to be detrimental to the functioning of the endothelium.
  • (18) fluids and admixtures that had been stored at refrigerated temperatures were determined.
  • (19) The origin was the contamination of parenteral nutrition admixture from a resting place in the refrigerator of the parenteral mixture preparation room.
  • (20) The light absorbance of the clarified HPA digestion product was measured directly, after a brief incubation period, and was stable to storage of samples in diffuse daylight for at least 2 d. Proteinase produced by growth in refrigerated whole milk of as few as 2.5 X 10(6) cfu ml-1 of Pseudomonas fluorescens AR11 was detected.

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