What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Africa vs Refrigerator - What's the difference?

africa | refrigerator |

As nouns the difference between africa and refrigerator

is that africa is african while refrigerator is a household appliance used for keeping food fresh by refrigeration (short form fridge ).

As an adjective africa

is african.

africa

English

(wikipedia Africa)

Alternative forms

* Afric

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (historical) A province of the Roman Empire containing what is now modern Tunisia and portions of Libya.
  • The continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica. It holds the following countries:
  • The Maghreb and the Subsahara are regions of Africa with different geographies .

    Hyponyms

    (Countries of Africa) Central Africa * Central African Republic * Chad * Democratic Republic of the Congo * Republic of the Congo Eastern Africa * Burundi * Comoros * Djibouti * Eritrea * Ethiopia * Kenya * Seychelles * Rwanda * Somalia – Somaliland – Puntland * Tanzania * Uganda Northern Africa * Algeria * Ceuta * Egypt * Libya * Mauritania * Melilla * Morocco * South Sudan * Sudan * Tunisia * Western Sahara Southern Africa * Angola * Botswana * Lesotho * Madagascar * Malawi * Mauritius * Mozambique * Namibia * Reunion * Swaziland * South Africa * Zambia * Zimbabwe Western Africa * Benin * Burkina Faso * Cameroon * Cape Verde * * Equatorial Guinea * Gabon * The Gambia * Ghana * Guinea-Bissau * Liberia * Mali * Niger * Nigeria * Sao Tome and Principe * Senegal * Sierra Leone * Togo *Subsahara

    Derived terms

    * African * Afrikaans * Horn of Africa * North Africa * South Africa

    See also

    * *

    Anagrams

    * ----

    refrigerator

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A household appliance used for keeping food fresh by refrigeration (short form fridge ).
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator -sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
  • One who has a chilling influence.
  • * Charles Dickens, Bleak House
  • in a state of sublime satisfaction, he moves among the company, a magnificent refrigerator .

    Synonyms

    * fridge, frigerator * icebox

    Derived terms

    * refrigerator-freezer * refrigerator mother * refrigerator pie

    See also

    * cooler * freezer * icebox ----