fridge

«fridge» in Mova's school dictionary: A cold cupboard in the kitchen that keeps food and drinks… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a fridge, fridges — short for refrigerator)

meaning for a pupil

A cold cupboard in the kitchen that keeps food and drinks cool and fresh, usually about 3–5 °C. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and food safety: keep milk, meat, cheese and leftovers in the fridge so germs grow slowly; put raw meat on the bottom shelf; shut the door quickly to save energy; a freezer is much colder (about −18 °C). In science: cooling slows down how food goes off. Phrases: in the fridge, fridge door, fridge magnet, fridge-freezer, out of the fridge.

examples

• Put the milk back in the fridge. tree →
• The fridge keeps food fresh. tree →
• Close the fridge door, please. tree →
• Raw meat goes on the bottom shelf of the fridge. tree →
• My drawing is on the fridge with a magnet. tree →
• Leftover pizza is in the fridge. tree →
• Butter is hard when it comes out of the fridge. tree →
• Never play inside an old fridge — you could get trapped. tree →

note

Countable: fridges. Short for «refrigerator» (US uses «refrigerator» or «fridge»). Spelling: «fridge» has a d, though «refrigerator» does not. The fridge is cool, not freezing; the freezer is below 0 °C.

In the corpora

• Knowing this helps you understand why a family's week is planned round a piece of paper on the fridge.
• Mum pins a rota on the fridge: "Freya this Friday, Sam next Friday.
• Milk left out on a warm table goes sour because bacteria multiply fast in warmth and make acid; the fridge slows them down.
• Then it goes into cartons and bottles and back into the cold, all the way to your fridge.
• Cold slows down bacteria, mould and chemical reactions, so food lasts longer in the fridge.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fridge» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.