Definitions
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- adjective Of something whose
temperature has beenlowered rapidly to below thefreezing point . - verb Past participle of
quick-freeze
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value
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Examples
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Every odd berry and bud, quick-frozen on the twig the previous fall, has already been discovered and thoroughly savored.
Donna Henes: Lent: Hungering For Spirit Donna Henes 2011
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Every odd berry and bud, quick-frozen on the twig the previous fall, has already been discovered and thoroughly savored.
Donna Henes: Lent: Hungering For Spirit Donna Henes 2011
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Mexico employs a large fleet of trawlers which dredge up vast quantities of shrimp and prawns, quick-frozen for the waiting consumer inland.
Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude 2009
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Had they not been quick-frozen in the crater, they, too, would probably have flown off into space, as most incoming molecules do.
What's the moon made of? NASA mission finds it's nothing so simple as cheese. Marc Kaufman 2010
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Mexico employs a large fleet of trawlers which dredge up vast quantities of shrimp and prawns, quick-frozen for the waiting consumer inland.
Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude 2009
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Every odd berry and bud, quick-frozen on the twig the previous fall, has already been discovered and thoroughly savored.
Donna Henes: Lent: Hungering For Spirit Donna Henes 2011
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In 1930, the Birds Eye Frozen Food Company began sales experiments in 18 retail stores around Springfield, Massachusetts to test consumer acceptance of quick-frozen foods.
AS SEEN ON TV: CLARENCE BIRDSEYE Toby O'B 2010
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Similarly, quick-frozen peas are likely to be fresher than produce-stand peas, since peas start converting their sugars to starches within hours of harvesting.
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The National Consumer Forum (NCF) has cited foul play in the weight of quick-frozen chickens when they eventually thaw.
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Sipping slowly, I felt the liquid heat flow down the center of my chest, spread comfortably through my abdomen, and begin working its steady way down toward my toes, quick-frozen after a dash across the courtyard, undertaken in preference to the circuitous inside passage with its endless stairs and turnings.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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