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Refrigerate vs Chilling - What's the difference?

refrigerate | chilling |

As verbs the difference between refrigerate and chilling

is that refrigerate is to cool down, make cool while chilling is .

As an adjective chilling is

becoming cold.

As a noun chilling is

the act by which something is chilled.

refrigerate

English

Verb

(refrigerat)
  • To cool down, make cool.
  • * , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.149:
    • the other [artery] goes to the lungs, to fetch air to refrigerate the heart.
  • Now specifically, to keep cool by containing within a refrigerator.
    • Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit.

    Related terms

    * refrigerant * refrigeration * refrigerator

    See also

    * (refrigeration) ----

    chilling

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Becoming cold.
  • * 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 22:
    • As they reached the street the ‘Duchess’ caught a swirling hem of lace about her chilling ankles.
  • Causing cold.
  • Causing mild fear.
    • It was a chilling story, but the children enjoyed it
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • Displaying a sturdy professionalism throughout that stops just short of artistry, director Gary Ross, who co-scripted with Collins and Billy Ray, does his strongest work in the early scenes, which set up the stakes with chilling efficiency.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * bone-chilling

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is chilled.
  • * 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
    • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings, hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires