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Fridge vs Chiller - What's the difference?

fridge | chiller |

As nouns the difference between fridge and chiller

is that fridge is a refrigerator while chiller is something that chills, especially a machine that produces cold air, either for air conditioning, to prepare chilled foods etc.

As a verb fridge

is (archaic) to rub, chafe or fridge can be to place inside of a refrigerator.

As an adjective chiller is

(chill).

fridge

English

Etymology 1

Probably imitatory; compare frig .

Verb

(fridg)
  • (archaic) To rub, chafe.
  • :* 1761': You might have rumpled and crumpled, and doubled and creased, and fretted and '''fridged the outsides of them all to pieces — Laurence Sterne, ''The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , vol. III (Penguin 2003, p. 145)
    • See also
    * frig

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of refrigerator. The fandom verb sense was coined by (Gail Simone), who criticized a plot point in ''
  • 54, in which (Kyle Rayner), the (Green Lantern), comes home to discover that a villain has murdered his girlfriend and left her body for him to find in the refrigerator.Tim Hanley, ''Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine , Chicago Review Press (2014), ISBN 9781613749098, pages 238-239

    • Alternative forms

    * 'fridge

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A refrigerator.
    • Related terms
    * fridge-freezer * fridge magnet

    Verb

  • To place inside of a refrigerator.
  • * 2007 , Lucy Diamond, Any Way You Want Me , Pan (2007), ISBN 9780330446433, page 201:
    • I had turned up with a bottle, which the hostess, Celia, had duly fridged , but everyone else had opted for camomile tea, making me feel like the biggest lush in south London.
  • * 2013 , Jeffrey Deaver, The October List , Grand Central Publishing (2013), ISBN 9781455576661, unnumbered page:
    • He munched and sipped, wished the soda was cold. Should have fridged it.
  • * 2013 , James Morton, Brilliant Bread , Ebury Press (2013), ISBN 9780091955601, page 134:
    • If you don't have two stones, bake it in two different batches, fridging your remaining doughs whilst you wait.
  • (label) To gratuitously kill, disempower, or otherwise remove a female character from a narrative, often strictly to hurt a male character and provide him with a personal motivation for fighting the antagonist(s).
  • * 2013 , Siobhan Whitebread, " Welcome to the Punch: A little less conversation", Spark* (University of Reading), Volume 63, Issue 1, 26 April 2013, page 15:
    • The backing cast are also all excellent, as expected considering the calibre of actors attached to the film – Andrea Riseborough is a very good example, playing a fascinating cop who really didn't deserve to be 'fridged' (meaning: removed from the action so that the men can do their manly things).
  • * 2014 , Tim Hanley, Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine , Chicago Review Press (2014), ISBN 9781613749098, page 240:
    • In terms of villains, familiar characters haven't been fridged but they've been rather sexualized.
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    • References

    chiller

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia chiller) (en noun)
  • Something that chills, especially a machine that produces cold air, either for air conditioning, to prepare chilled foods etc.
  • A frightening dramatic work, such as a book or film

    • Quotations

    * 2002 Robert C. Summers, Lawrence J. Dyckman - Food Safety *: Carcasses are then trimmed, rinsed, and, as the final step of the slaughter line, placed into a chiller . * 1991 Michael R. Pitts - Famous Movie Detectives II *: Variety termed the film "a fairly suspenseful low-budget chiller ."

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (chill)
  • * 1844 Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
    • With the setting of the sun a strong breeze, every blast of which was chiller' and ' chiller , had begun to blow, rustling with a low continuous hum . . .
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