Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To freeze (food) by a process sufficiently rapid to retain natural flavor, nutritional value, or other properties.
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- noun A
chamber ordevice in which the temperature may be rapidly lowered to below to freezing point. - verb transitive To
rapidly reduce thetemperature of something to below thefreezing point , thereby preserving some aspect of it (such as position or flavor) that would otherwise be lost during the freezing process. - verb transitive
Preserved in anunaltered state, reminiscent of quick-freezing.
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- verb freeze rapidly so as to preserve the natural juices and flavors
Etymologies
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Examples
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Then turn on the quick-freeze setting if your freezer has it.
Despite tough winter, food group says March is the time to freeze 2011
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The quick-freeze vitrification process works better.
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Hung peers jealously at their quick-freeze operation.
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Then roll dough into balls, set on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper and quick-freeze the balls by setting them in a freezer for about 30 minutes so they set up fairly hard.
Cookie Balls Gumbo Lily 2007
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Then roll dough into balls, set on a cookie sheet lined with wax paper and quick-freeze the balls by setting them in a freezer for about 30 minutes so they set up fairly hard.
Archive 2007-07-01 Gumbo Lily 2007
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Vitrification is already used to quick-freeze eggs and embryos with success, allowing spare ones to be used in IVF at a later date.
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Vitrification is already used to quick-freeze eggs and embryos with success, allowing spare ones to be used in IVF at a later date.
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Vitrification is already used to quick-freeze eggs and embryos with success, allowing spare ones to be used in IVF at a later date.
the Mail online | 2010
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- A startling, quick-freeze kind of north wind the icy forefinger of an impending snow storm poking down into East Texas set the dried stalks of standing milo to singing.
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- A startling, quick-freeze kind of north wind the icy forefinger of an impending snow storm poking down into East Texas set the dried stalks of standing milo to singing.
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