Fridge vs Person - What's the difference?
fridge | person |
(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)
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, To place inside of a refrigerator.
* 2007 , Lucy Diamond, Any Way You Want Me , Pan (2007), ISBN 9780330446433,
* 2013 , Jeffrey Deaver, The October List , Grand Central Publishing (2013), ISBN 9781455576661,
* 2013 , James Morton, Brilliant Bread , Ebury Press (2013), ISBN 9780091955601,
(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, "
* 2014 , Tim Hanley, Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious History of the World's Most Famous Heroine , Chicago Review Press (2014), ISBN 9781613749098,
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An individual; usually a human being.
* 1784 , William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c. ,
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, title= # A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.
#* Francis Bacon
#* Jeremy Taylor
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# (Christianity) Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.
#* Book of Common Prayer
# Any sentient or socially intelligent being.
# (in a compound noun or noun phrase) Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).
The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
*, III.1.2.iii:
* 1897 , (Henry James), (What Maisie Knew) :
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 418:
* 2004 , (The New York Times) :
(legal) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
(legal) The human genitalia; specifically , the penis.
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* 1972 , Evans v. Ewels'', ''Weekly Law Reports , vol. 1, p. 671 at pp. 674–675:
(grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is speaking. See grammatical person.
(biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
* Encyc. Brit.
(obsolete) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
(transitive, humorous, gender-neutral) To man.
* 2007 , Brian R. Brenner, Don't Throw This Away!: The Civil Engineering Life (page 40)
* 2008 , William Guy, Something Sensational (page 337)
As nouns the difference between fridge and person
is that fridge is a refrigerator while person is person.As a verb fridge
is (archaic) to rub, chafe or fridge can be to place inside of a refrigerator.fridge
English
Etymology 1
Probably imitatory; compare frig .Verb
(fridg)See also
* frigEtymology 2
Abbreviation of refrigerator. The fandom verb sense was coined by (Gail Simone), who criticized a plot point in ''pages 238-239
Alternative forms
* 'fridgeVerb
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.
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- He munched and sipped, wished the soda was cold. Should have fridged it.
page 134:
- If you don't have two stones, bake it in two different batches, fridging your remaining doughs whilst you wait.
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).
page 240:
- In terms of villains, familiar characters haven't been fridged but they've been rather sexualized.
References
person
English
Noun
(en-noun) (by suppletion)PREFACE
- THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and di?tingui?h it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. […]”}}
- his first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler
- No man can long put on a person and act a part.
- To bear rule, which was thy part / And person , hadst thou known thyself aright.
- How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend!
- three persons and one God
- Jack's always been a dog person , but I prefer cats.
- when the young ladies laughed at her for it, she replied, that it was not his person that she did embrace and reverence, but, with a Platonic love, the divine beauty of his soul.
- The Captain, inclining his military person , sat sideways to be closer and kinder […].
- At first blush it seemed that what was striking about him rested on the fact that his dress was exotic, his person foreign.
- Meanwhile, the dazed Sullivan, dressed like a bum with no identification on his person , is arrested and put to work on a brutal Southern chain gang.
- At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person .
5 Geo. 4. c. 83, United Kingdom), section 4:
- [E]very Person wilfully, openly, lewdly, and obscenely exposing his Person in any Street, Road, or public Highway, or in the View thereof, or in any Place of public Resort, with Intent to insult any Female ... and being subsequently convicted of the Offence for which he or she shall have been so apprehended, shall be deemed a Rogue and Vagabond, within the true Intent and Meaning of this Act ...
- It seems to me that at any rate today, and indeed by 1824, the word "person " in connection with sexual matters had acquired a meaning of its own; a meaning which made it a synonym for "penis." It may be ... that it was the forerunner of Victorian gentility which prevented people calling a penis a penis. But however that may be I am satisfied in my own mind that it has now acquired an established meaning to the effect already stated. It is I venture to say, well known amongst those who practise in the courts that the word "person" is so used over and over again. It is the familiar synonym of that part of the body, and, as one of the reasons for my decision in this case, I would use that interpretation of what was prevailing in 1824 and what has become established in the 150 years since then.
- True corms, composed of united personae yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons .
- (Haeckel)
Usage notes
In senses 1, 1.3, and 1.4, the plural is either persons'' or ''people'', with ''persons'' sounding more formal and ''people'' more colloquial. In senses 1.2, 2, 3, and 5 ''persons is the only plural.Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* advance person * businessperson * cameraperson * chairperson * common person * draftsperson * first person * foreperson * houseperson * in person * layperson * newsperson * nonperson * ombudsperson * person-to-person * person-hour * person-year * persona * personable * personal * personate * personification * personify * personnel * repairperson * salesperson * second person * stick person * spokesperson * third person * unperson * VIPVerb
(en verb)- (Milton)
- We had hit the iceberg, and it was time to person the lifeboats.
- We went so far as to stop in a hotel on the way out of Speyer — to ask for directions — but the teenaged girl personing the desk there seemed to be such an idiot